UCLA |

Diversity in demand: People of color, women – in audience and on the big screen – hold keys to industry survival

People of color also hit historic highs while women dropped in key jobs, according to the new UCLA Hollywood Diversity Report.
UC Santa Cruz |

Stranger Things VR game directed by UCSC’s Samantha Gorman launches in partnership with Netflix, Meta

Players explore the psychological horror/action game as the villain Vecna, pursuing new and never-seen-before perspectives on the Netflix series.
UCLA |

Life in the FAST Lane

How a feisty student IG account turned into the style arbiter of campus.
UC Newsroom |

Digging, diving and discovering stories untold

Once a dream of two plucky UC scholars, the Society of Black Archaeologists has become a force for change.
UCLA Magazine |

Looking for the legendary ‘missing link’

How a UCLA computer scientist discovered a missing link in the long and tangled story of human evolution.
UC Santa Barbara |

Democracy is more fragile than you think

The rise in authoritarian attitudes is coming from the right and the left.
UC Irvine |

‘You Are What You Eat’: How a nutritional study made it to the Netflix screen

Researcher and dietitian Dr. Matt Landry served as first author on a study that made its way to a new documentary.
UC San Diego |

UC San Diego composer Anthony Davis inducted into the Opera Hall of Fame

A Pulitzer prize-winning musician who has written eight operas thus far, Davis is unafraid to spotlight some of society’s most pervasive problems in the form.
UC Merced |

Ph.D. student pushes for better education benefits for veterans’ dependents

Karla Seijas’ passion for identifying and removing obstacles faced by military veterans and their families has turned into a new state law.
UC San Diego |

Forbes’ 30 Under 30’s Abby Sherlock ’19 talks gaming, mentorship and defying stereotypes

Abby Sherlock, a video game producer and a 2019 graduate of UC San Diego, recently was named to Forbes' 30 Under 30 list.
UCLA Magazine |

The time traveler: Eddie Cole on affirmative action and this moment in history

With affirmative action under attack, historian Eddie Cole ponders the past — his own, and the country’s — as American higher education barrels toward an uncertain future.
UC Santa Cruz |

Finding her voice: Farnaz Fatemi's poetry explores language, borders and selfhood with an emphasis on her Iranian American identity

Alumna and Santa Cruz County Poet Laureate reflects on her academic journey and career.