This documentary follows five medical students in their first and last years attending UCLA's School of Medicine, culminating in Match Day, when they discover where they will be doing their residency. The students reflect on their experiences a

Curing SCID and Treating Sickle-Cell with Gene Therapy

Oct 12th, 2020 3m 56s

The story of how CIRM-supported research conducted by UCLA's Don Kohn pioneered a total cure for SCID, also known as bubble-baby disease, and how he hopes to employ the same gene-therapy strategies to cure sickle-cell anemia. Series: "Stem Cell

6 Feet Apart - Social Engagement During COVID-19

Apr 6th, 2020 28m 10s

Social distancing does not mean social isolation. In just a short time, our lives have changed dramatically. The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has challenged us all in different ways to cope, adapt, and grow. To kick off this special ser

Socio-Economic Equality and Rights - Transnational Legal Discourse on Race and Empire

Mar 26th, 2020 48m 25s

Socio-economic equality and rights have historically been marginalized in the human rights system but remain a front of racial discrimination. Panelists will engage with this history, identify contemporary patterns, and reflect on the analytica

Migration - Transnational Legal Discourse on Race and Empire

Mar 18th, 2020 1h 24m

Panelists consider global and national displacement, rights and protection regimes, and the ways that race and political economy drive policy decisions and institutional and normative responses to migration and migrants. The discussion covers t

Transnational Perspectives on Race and Empire at the Intersection of TWAIL and CRT

Feb 25th, 2020 1h 27m

Contemporary global and national political crises, many of which threaten thehuman rights of millions and even the international system itself, bring intosharp relief enduring colonial legacies of racial injustice and racial inequality allov

America's Imperial Unraveling - Transnational Legal Discourse on Race and Empire

Feb 25th, 2020 56m 40s

The keynote presentation of the Transnational Legal Discourse on Race and Empire Symposium features Aziz Rana whose research and teaching center on American constitutional law and political development, with a particular focus on how shifting n

Emergencies and Crisis - Transnational Legal Discourse on Race and Empire

Feb 25th, 2020 1h 1m

Emergency law permits states to derogate from globally agreed upon norms of human rights. While some rights cannot be suppressed, states still use emergency law to justify policies that reproduce inherently racialized colonial logics, including

How Can We Save Patient Planet Earth?

Feb 17th, 2020 1h 4m

Dr. Jonathan Fielding shares his insights and perspective on some of the most pressing public health issues our world faces today. He served as the Public Health Director and Health Officer for Los Angeles County for 16 years where he directed

Stress Eating and Weight Stigma

Feb 17th, 2020 1h 16m

We live in a society that is obsessed with weight loss and dieting. Weight stigma and fat-shaming pervade our everyday lives– turning eating into something that is no longer an enjoyable act, but one of scrutiny and stress. Driven by a love for

The Neuroscience Of Music

Feb 17th, 2020 59m 54s

What are the origins of hearing? What is the evolutionary benefit of music? And why do we get chills when we listen to certain songs? This episode of UCLA's LiveWell podcast features UCLA neuropsychology expert Bob Bilder about the neuroscience

Empowering Communities to Thrive

Feb 17th, 2020 1h 6m

D'Artagnan Scorza wears many hats - from lecturer in the Fielding School of Public Health at UCLA to Founder and Executive Director of the Social Justice Learning Institute, a non-profit organization that works to help communities achieve healt

Gifts of the Storyteller with Brenda Stevenson - UCLA Faculty Research Lecture

Dec 19th, 2019 59m 5s

UCLA history professor Brenda Stevenson studies slavery and the Antebellum South, some of our country’s most painful moments and eras. Because there is not much in the way of documentary evidence of the lives of women of color, enslaved women a

The Historical Exclusion of Minority Elected Officials and The Modern Fight for Minority-Majority Districts

Aug 14th, 2019 56m 25s

This panel discussion features former elected officials, legal and political experts discussing the role of late UCLA professor Leo Estrada in redistricting in California. They say Estrada's work was integral ensuring people of color achieved e

Demography and Population Studies as a Conduit to Systems Change

Aug 4th, 2019 53m 40s

Quality data is paramount to ensuring equal representation. If we don’t know who is living in our communities, we can’t create and maintain the systems needed to care for and support those people. In this panel discussion, experts on data colle

The New Majority and the 2020 Census: Shifting the Balance of Power

Aug 2nd, 2019 29m 34s

The history of the U.S. census is riddled with examples of efforts to exclude immigrants and minorities. Arturo Vargas, president and CEO of the NALEO Educational Fund discusses that history, and the ongoing fight to make sure everyone living i

Mentorship: Building a Diverse Pipeline in the Academy

Jul 31st, 2019 51m 5s

Higher education has long lacked diversity. This panel of academics, who crossed path with late UCLA professor Leo Estrada at various points in their lives, discusses the lessons learned from his unique form of mentorship. They explain how maki

Looking for Women Between the Lines in Ancient India

Jun 14th, 2019 59m 21s

For four decades, UCLA’s Stephanie Jamison has been somewhat defiantly seeking the stories of women among some of the oldest texts in the world. Jamison shares some of what she has unearthed, the names and stories of women we have likely never

Crime and Criminal Adjudication in the Latinx Context

Apr 1st, 2019 1h 1m

This panel explores the relevance of race, citizenship, immigration status, and community context in explaining lethal violence and criminal case outcomes, both currently and historically. Drawing from a variety of data sources and employing a

Law Policy and Community Organizing: Direct Democracy as a Vehicle for Criminal Justice Reform

Mar 27th, 2019 1h 5m

This panel explores how statewide direct democracy measures, including ballot initiatives, have propelled affirmative criminal justice reforms in jurisdictions with large Latinx populations. Panelists discuss the ways in which Latinx people wer

Capital Punishment: Influence of Race and Ethnicity

Mar 27th, 2019 57m 42s

This panel focuses on questions surrounding the influence of race and ethnicity on the imposition of capital punishment. The Supreme Court struck down unitary standardless capital punishment statutes in the early 1970s. Only a few years later t

LatinX Communities Race and the Criminal Justice System: Setting the Context

Mar 22nd, 2019 1h 7m

Panel explores how Latinx communities perceive the criminal justice system and provides a general overview of what we know and don't know about Latinx incarceration. The panel also explores the content and consequences of Latinx racialization (

Latinx People and the Criminal Justice System with Gerald López

Mar 20th, 2019 43m 13s

UCLA Law professor emeritus Gerald López has litigated extensively as lead counsel in a wide variety of criminal and civil matters. In this talk, he captivates the crowd with reflections on his childhood in East Los Angeles in the 1950s, where

Policing Latinx Communities

Mar 18th, 2019 1h 6m

This panel focuses on questions around policing in Latinx communities in order to shed light on the ways that intersecting legal regimes and policing practices affect those communities. The panel explores the heavy police presence in public sch

The Tibetan Plateau

Feb 12th, 2019 27m 9s

This documentary produced by the UCLA Geography department explores new methods of climate modeling that allow researchers to predict the future climate of Tibet. [Science] [Show ID: 34462]