UC Berkeley |
In dust of WWII camps, Japanese culture blossomed
One woman's quest for answers about the war years ultimately led to a film on Japanese internment and its impact on the arts.
UC Research Tumblr |
Using art to reimagine history
What is it like to get a Ph.D. in the arts? We sat down with a UC Santa Cruz graduate student to find out.
UCLA |
Labor expert weighs in on new Cesar Chavez biopic
Gaspar Rivera-Salgado, project director with the UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education, talks about the first biopic to feature the iconic Chicano labor leader.
UCLA |
A winning strategy: Students invent board games that tap into Inca culture, history
Students in an archaeology class on the Inca Empire devised board games based on the history and culture of what was the largest civilization in pre-Columbian America.
UC Riverside |
Ancestry.com, UC Riverside partner to digitize historical newspapers
Historians, genealogists, rejoice: Partnership will bring millions of pages of historical California papers online.
UC Newsroom |
Digitization project breathes new life into UC Libraries’ collections
Out-of-print treasures get new exposure in the digital realm.
UC Riverside |
Century-old music mystery solved
Musicologist Walter Clark locates long-lost opera by Spanish composer Enrique Granados.
UCLA Magazine |
Clayborne Carson: King's chronicler
The man who edits and publishes Martin Luther King’s papers isn't just a scholar of the civil rights movement. Historian, documentarian, playwright and scholar Clayborne Carson lived it.
UCLA |
Four threats to American democracy
UCLA professor examines four interconnected issues that could threaten a breakdown of effective democratic government in the United States.
UC Berkeley |
Intellectual migration from fascist Europe to Berkeley
Exhibition at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life traces the journeys of artists, writers and scholars who eventually made their way to safety and intellectual prominence at UC Berkeley.
UC Irvine |
Professor/provost's take on ‘Downton Abbey’ and diversity
Professor, administrator is a scholar of British history, fan of the TV series and award-winning champion of equity in faculty hiring
UCLA |
World's earliest depiction of volcanic eruption
Professor confirms that Turkish mural is a representation of an eruption more than 8,000 years ago.