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Q&A: Ursula Heise on the important stories that birds have to tell

September 6, 2024
Lucy Berbeo I UCLA

Birds, as Ursula Heise can attest, have profoundly important stories to tell — if only we know how to listen.

In memoriam: Paul D. Sheats, 92, UCLA English professor

September 4, 2024

Paul D. Sheats, longtime professor of English at UCLA, died in Los Angeles on August 23, 2024, at the age of 92.

Birdsong(s): A faculty-curated avian mixtape for the ages

September 3, 2024
Adam Bradley I UCLA

In 1963, on a song called “Surfin’ Bird,” a one-hit-wonder surf rock band called the Trashmen claimed that the “bird, bird, bird, b-bird’s the word.”

Theater companies from Mexico, Spain, L.A., New York to take the stage at UCLA’s LA Escena festival

August 22, 2024
Sean Brenner I UCLA

Free live performances take place at newly renovated Nimoy Theater, Sept. 12-17

Memory studies scholars take on ‘Violence and Repair’ in summit hosted by UCLA

July 26, 2024
Sean Brenner I UCLA

Memory studies, by definition, requires scholars to engage in dialogue with the past. But research in the field also sheds light on important contemporary issues.

Justin Torres’ We the Animals listed as one of the best books of the 21st century

July 12, 2024

Justin Torres’ novel, “We the Animals,” is included in The New York Times The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century.

Marissa López receives Chancellor’s Arts Initiative grant, curates exhibition on L.A.’s past

June 24, 2024
Sean Brenner I UCLA

In two distinct projects — one underway and one beginning soon — Marissa López is drawing lessons from Los Angeles’ past to inform insights about the city’s social, economic and cultural present.

How Victor Shi took up the crusade to get Gen Z out of apathy and into the voting booth

June 18, 2024
Joseph Bien-Kahn I UCLA

The first question people ask Victor Shi ’24 is “Are you a social media expert?” And the second: “Is President Joe Biden too old to energize Gen Z voters?”

Graduating student Mishal Syed honored among other creatives in second annual competition

June 11, 2024
Jessica Wolf I UCLA

The Chancellor’s Council on the Arts is marking its commencement competition, selecting one graduate student and one undergraduate artist to be named Class Artists for 2024 and naming six students as honorable mentions.

In memoriam: Ken Lincoln, 80, UCLA English professor

June 7, 2024

Professor Ken Lincoln died last month at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at the age of 80.