Investigating the rise of social companion AI
Grace Wang, a third-year undergraduate, combined her varied academic interests for a summer research project.
Research
Tanya Ivanova-Sullivan receives grant to study language and identity among Ukrainian diaspora
The research will explore how and when people continue to use their native languages, and how they switch among multiple languages.
Website illuminates the dark history of eugenics in 20th-century U.S.
The project, co-led by Alexandra Minna Stern, offers new insights into a disturbing chapter of American history.
What’s in an ‘O’? New UCLA research may unlock mystery of ring tied to Pontius Pilate
Drawing clues from the ring’s inscription, Catherine Bonesho rebuts previous scholarship about the 2,000-year-old relic.
Science meets tradition in the Amazon rainforest
Art history professor Thiago Puglieri and his colleague Dayanny Peres de Souza wrote about their innovative collaboration for Getty Magazine.
Ahmanson Scholarship Seminar students become curators for Clark Library exhibition
“No Place Like Home: 18th-Century London in an Age of Change” showcased letters and household objects drawn from the Clark’s collection.
Research with a chance of meatballs
Using resources from the Clark Library collection, fourth-year student Alfons Rosales prepared a tasty dish from a 300-year-old recipe.
Thousands of early modern Japanese books from UCLA, UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco to be digitized in Yanai Initiative project
The archive will provide access to rare Japanese materials from the early 1600s through 1868 – including books, illustrated scrolls, lavishly drawn maps and medical texts.
His research on the legal system explores how small decisions shape the truth
Philosophy major Nicholas Fong Neuweg is learning how routine practices in the legal system can quietly manufacture certainty.
Law and Philosophy fellow considers the potential implications of AI in courtrooms
Amin Ebrahimi Afrouzi writes about the risks of artificial intelligence coming to the fore in legal and governmental settings.