UC Irvine |

UC’s National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement selects inaugural class of fellows, expands board

UC Irvine chancellor to oversee center’s administration, begin search for executive director.

UC Newsroom |

Ralph Bunche: The peacemaker

How UC legend Ralph Bunche brokered peace.

UC Irvine |

Battling bias

A freshman seminar series on prejudice aims to teach tolerance and encourage activism.

UC Riverside |

How storybook lessons impart scholastic success

Differences in children's literature in the U.S., Mexico and China may help explain academic performance.

UC Davis |

First Thiebaud paintings uncrated for upcoming exhibition

The first exhibition devoted to Thiebaud's artistic maturation opens Jan. 16 at Manetti Shrem.

UC Berkeley |

New center aims to nourish your empathy — with art

Dacher Keltner helps launch the art world’s first ‘empathy center,’ using the power of art to induce compassion.

UC Merced |

Former street kid fulfills educational promise with Ph.D.

Marcus Shaw turns his troubled past into an area of study and fuel for his own academic achievement.

UC Irvine |

The new science of acting

Cognitive scientists are helping actors infuse characters with genuine memories, feelings and personalities.

UC Santa Barbara |

We'll always have ‘Casablanca’

As the beloved film turns 75, a scholar reflects on its enduring relevance.

UC Santa Cruz |

Conversations I wish I had

Death is not a dirty word to alumna Morgan Brown, whose art projects take on mortality taboos.

UC Newsroom |

UC seeks applicants for its Free Speech Fellowship Program

Fellows selected by the National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement will lead the way on issues related to the First Amendment.

UC Office of the President |

Fellowship applications open for UC’s National Center for Free Speech

Starting today (Nov. 9), the University of California will accept applications from individuals interested in joining the inaugural group of fellows for its National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement in Washington, D.C. The fellowship program is the cornerstone of the university’s newly established center, which aims to explore the timely, critical issue of free speech on our nation’s college campuses and in society as a whole.