Growing up in Palos Verdes, Jessica Schwartz began music lessons at the age of 4 — first violin, and then piano. She began playing guitar...
UCLA professor Sharon Gerstel studies how Byzantine-era churches enhanced the performance of liturgical chants What does it sound like when angels sing? Monks in Byzantium...
UCLA International Institute, May 28, 2015 — The UCLA Russian Flagship Program is not for slackers. The five-year program aims to produce graduates with “superior...
UCLA literature professor Efrain Kristal still remembers how fascinated, yet unsettled, he felt at 17 after reading his first book of short stories by the...
When Tim Tangherlini, a scholar of Danish folklore at UCLA, was doing graduate work at UC Berkeley, he conceived of a project that focused on...
On the Day of the Dead each year, Charlene Villaseñor Black goes to the cemetery with her family to reconnect with her ancestors. She then...
Drawn from the sciences, the arts and humanities, business, public affairs and the nonprofit sector, the academy's 181 new fellows and 16 foreign honorary members...
Donation from alumnus Alan Leve honors the legacy of his family A $5 million gift from Alan Leve, a UCLA alumnus and the founder and...
Jessica Schwartz finds connections between her research on the Marshall Islands, teaching and playing guitar in a punk band On a sunny Tuesday morning, students...
Associate professor Marissa López of the department of English has been named as one of 30 fellows in the New Leaders Project of the Jewish Federation of Greater Los...
Michael Emmerich, an associate professor of Japanese at UCLA, never worked as a journalist. Neither has he written 50 novels, much less 150 short stories....
Glittering stained glass. Intricately carved botanical capitals. A cedar spire towering over the heart of Paris. These features all make the Sainte-Chapelle, a royal Gothic...
When Alain Mabanckou, professor of French and Francophone studies at UCLA and a native of the country of Congo-Brazzaville, was trying to master English, he...
For years, Blake Allmendinger amused friends with tales of his mother’s antics — for example, how she chased people off her Colorado ranch with a...
Alicia Gaspar de Alba has received the 2015 Book Award from the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education for her book, "[Un]framing the 'Bad...
In a new book, classics professor Kathryn Morgan examines the tactics of Hieron, an ambitious ruler who trumpeted his horses' victories at the horse track...
UCLA professor traces the connection between politics and mental health in Revolutionary France . UCLA professor Laure Murat mined 150-year-old medical records for her history...
Even after 20th century archaeologists began to unearth traces of the woman who defied tradition to crown herself as king, Hatshepsut still didn’t get her...