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ISSUE 12

Bruin hosts with the most: Randall Park and Miguel García-Garibay Q&A

Randall Park will host the first-ever UCLA College Lecture Awards on Oct. 12. The event will honor five College faculty members, each of whom will share insights into their research and scholarship: Martha Bailey (Division of Social Sciences), Eric Avila (Division of Undergraduate Education), Wesley Campbell (Division of Physical Sciences), Helen Deutsch (Division of Humanities) and Elaine Hsiao (Division of Life Sciences).

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Anthropology & Archaeology
Marooned No More

Professor Justin Dunnavant is a deep-sea diver who has earned acclaim for recovering evidence and artifacts from a sunken slave ship in the Atlantic Ocean, a grim relic of the African-Brazilian slave trade. Now, his innovative mapping methods are expanding Black cultural history.

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UCLA Labor Center

Trailblazing by transit: A new UCLA podcast on India’s women auto drivers

Even in India, many are unaware that women auto drivers exist. “Autoqueen Trilogy,” the latest miniseries by the UCLA Labor Center’s Re:Work podcast, documents Mohana’s life story.

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UCLA/Getty Conservation Program

Science meets tradition

Professor Thiago Sevilhano, a chemist and professor in the UCLA/Getty Interdepartmental Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage wrote about a collaboration that shows how technical art history and conservation science can foster a better future for communities and contribute to academic and traditional knowledge. This piece was featured in Getty Magazine.

MORE UCLA SOCIAL SCIENCES NEWS

Serving Highest Needs: An Equity Analysis of Bay Area Homelessness Prevention Programs

California Policy Lab

Who Really Manages the Tap? New UCLA Study Finds Water Use in Los Angeles Homes Is Deeply — and Invisibly — Gendered

CSW | Barbra Streisand Center

UCLA’s Department of Political Science announces Board of Advisors Honors Thesis Award winners

UCLA Department of Political Science

FACULTY NEWS

UCLA Professor Juliana Londoño Vélez Named Associate Editor at the Journal of Public Economics

UCLA Department of Economics

UCLA’s Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies congratulates 2025-2026 faculty awards

UCLA Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies

IN MEMORIAM

In Memoriam: Thomas Hines, 89, architectural historian who reshaped our view of modernism

UCLA Department of History

For more than five decades, Hines was a formative presence at UCLA, where he held the rare distinction of a joint appointment spanning the department of history and the department of architecture and urban design. Interdisciplinary in all senses of the term, his work encouraged designers to look past labels and ask what a building was truly doing in the world.

STAFF NEWS

UCLA Social Sciences

Meet UCLA’s 2026 Thomas E. Lifka Staff Excellence Award Winners

Four staff members received the 2026 Thomas E. Lifka Staff Excellence Award. Ann Major (History) and Stephanie Jeffers (Political Science) received the Excellence in Administrative Leadership award. Charles Kim (Social Sciences Grant Support) and Myrna Dee Kikuchi (Anthropology) received the Excellence in Staff Performance award.

View photos from the 2026 ceremony and luncheon →

STUDENT NEWS

UCLA Labor Center

Learning the history we aren’t taught: Q&A with UCLA student Prabhleen Kaur

In this interview, Prabhleen Kaur, a recent UCLA political science and labor studies graduate, discusses her experience in the undergraduate course “We Gone Be Alright: Developing the Next Generation of Organizers,” offered via the Center for the Advancement of Racial Equity (CARE) at Work.

History

Hani Abramson awarded two Leve Center awards

The awards will support Abramson’s research exploring transnational Jewish history in the interwar and immediate postwar period.

IN THE HEADLINES

HEY SOCAL | Fowler Museum at UCLA showcases the Philippines’ Banaue Rice Terraces

Featuring Professor Stephen Acabado’s Ifugao Archeological Project.

New York Times | ICE Arrests Soar as People With No Criminal Record Are Increasingly Targeted

Featuring data drawn from the Deportation Data Project co-directed by Graeme Blair, professor of political science at UCLA.

Associated Press | ICE arrests jumped to nearly 50,000 in July, the highest monthly total of Trump’s second term

Featuring analysis drawn from the Deportation Data Project co-directed by Graeme Blair, professor of political science at UCLA.

Marketplace | Real wage losses are at the root of low consumer sentiment, new paper finds

Featuring analysis by Tia Koonse, legal policy and research manager at the UCLA Labor Center.

KCRW | Meatpacking industry temps lead to fewer job protections

Featuring analysis by Brian Justie, senior research analyst at the UCLA Labor Center.

UPCOMING EVENTS

UCLA College Lecture Awards

Monday, Oct. 12, 2026

5:30 p.m.

The event will honor five College faculty members, including economic historian, demographer and labor economist Martha Bailey from UCLA’s Division of Social Sciences.

Learn more about Professor Bailey’s research: The life and policies behind the data →