Life stories of early black faculty offer window onto history
June 4, 2014
Eighteen African American faculty and senior administrators, hired before the advent of affirmative-action policies in the 1970s, recount their stories in an oral-history series.
Rare documentary about early Japanese immigrants resurfaces
June 2, 2014
After 30 years, film about first-generation Issei in California reaches new audiences.
Bringing attention to overlooked artists
May 27, 2014
Art history professor is on a detective mission to find works produced by Asian-American artists from the early 20th century.
Faculty inspire Howard grads to pursue Ph.D. at UC San Diego
May 22, 2014
Bioengineers were among first members of UC San Diego Howard Partnership for Graduate Student Success.
Schools in U.S. growing more separate, still unequal
May 16, 2014
Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education, schools nationwide are becoming more segregated for African Americans and Latinos.
UC aims to better serve community college transfers
May 14, 2014
Proposals seek to simplify and strengthen the pathway through which one in three undergraduates get to UC.
New book explores L.A.'s Nisei girls clubs
May 6, 2014
A UCLA historian explores the vast network of social clubs that helped Japanese-American girls navigate the prejudice and exclusion they faced in Los Angeles between 1920 and 1950.
Freshman thrives in research program
May 1, 2014
Public health program aimed at young women opened the door to undergraduate research and potential medical career.
Righting a legal wrong
April 30, 2014
Law students seek posthumous California Bar admission of Chinese lawyer who was denied license in 1890.
I say Hispanic. You say Latino. How did the whole thing start?
April 29, 2014
Sociologist traces the commercial, political and cultural interests that colluded in the 1970s to create a national Hispanic identity.