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Tag: Los Angeles
News Roundup
LA-Tech.org Provides 1,000 Tech Internships to Underrepresented LA Students
LA-Tech.org, a nonprofit dedicated to introducing underrepresented LA communities to the tech sector, will provide 1,000 paid internships to students over the next two years. LA-Tech.org is collaborating with tech companies to design and monitor the internship experience “so the companies feel fully equipped to provide exceptional internships,” which typically last between 10-12 weeks. Alongside […]
July 15, 2021
Latest News
2021 Emerging Scholars: Dr. Cynthia Wang
Dr. Cynthia Wang was in Hong Kong looking for a gay bar in 2009. It wasn’t easy. She found herself scouring old Yahoo groups from the 1990s, going to places listed only to find they were gone.
January 26, 2021
Asian American Pacific Islander
Do We All Look Alike?
“You all look alike,” is what people told me when I was a kid growing up. As an Asian American in the Midwest in the 1970s, before diversity was “a thing,” I was always aware my family was different — and difference was not celebrated. I laugh, or try to, now if anyone accuses me of identity politics. They have it backwards: I struggled to assimilate, to avoid being marked by my heritage. I understood to be accepted by my peers, I had to forsake my ancestors.
June 2, 2020
COVID-19
Coronavirus Brings Extra Uncertainty For DACA Students Awaiting a Supreme Court Decision
DACA students have been in limbo for months, as the U.S. Supreme Court continues to deliberate on whether to uphold the Trump administration’s 2017 decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival program. Now, amidst the coronavirus crisis, both DACA and undocumented students face even more questions about their future.
April 8, 2020
Campus Climate
Study Finds College Students Build Friendships that Bridge Divides
A new study finds that college students who build interworldview friendships are likely to develop positive attitudes towards all worldviews.
October 10, 2019
Students
UCLA Course to Examine Race Through Lens of Black Horror Films, Literature
Tananarive Due is bringing a highly anticipated Get Out-inspired course to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) this semester.
September 21, 2017
News Roundup
Study: One-fifth of Americans Find Workplace Hostile or Threatening
WASHINGTON — The American workplace is grueling, stressful and surprisingly hostile. So concludes an in-depth study of 3,066 U.S. workers by the Rand Corp., Harvard Medical School and the University of California, Los Angeles. Among the findings: Nearly one in five workers — a share the study calls “disturbingly high” — say they face a […]
August 14, 2017
Students
UCLA Conference Emphasizes Importance of Partnerships in Education
About 135 teachers, professors and partners from the University of California, Los Angeles community and tie-in schools gathered this week at UCLA to exchange strategies and best practices at the first “Learning Together: Practitioners and Scholars in Partnership” conference. The idea of partnerships was the theme of the conference, whether between practitioners and scholars, or […]
June 21, 2017
Students
At Her Core, Zurita-Lopez All About Helping
Dr. Cecilia I. Zurita-Lopez, selected by Diverse as a member of the 2017 Class of Emerging Scholars, knew at a young age that she wanted to help other people.
February 7, 2017
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