This past April, Peter Capone-Newton, M.D., of the Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and Lawrence DeFreitas, Youth and Volunteer Programs Coordinator for Community Services Unlimited participated in a special lunchtime panel discussion on food insecurity in Los Angeles. The panel discussed how food insecurity in Los Angeles plays out in the daily reality of families and the disparities in […]
In a May lecture at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, Edward Goetz, Ph.D., of the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs discussed his observations and research findings on the aggressive dismantling of public housing seen across the nation since the 1990s. Professor Goetz explored the political climate and public discourse around […]
At nearly every opportunity, UCLA Luskin Dean Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr. reminds people that the students and graduates of the Luskin School are meant to change the world. After graduating from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs with an Urban Planning degree in 2001, Andre Quintero has done precisely that. It eventually led him […]
Researcher Juan Matute finds 15 state and local policies that have unintentionally driven demand for oil use
As he graduates this year, the Urban Planning student and bicycling advocate is leading the charge for safe streets in L.A.
A pair of Urban Planning students started the UCLA Luskin Urban Spelunkers, inviting people to explore LA with them
Arriving in America as a teenager, this Public Policy graduate is now creating change
Public Policy student Brandon Dowling is a Rosenfield Fellow and is making a different in Los Angeles
By Mike Fricano UCLA Today “Who’s going to say, ‘My ideas are like thunder’?” UCLA education grad student and part-time middle-school music teacher Lawrence Grey Berkowitz asks the fifth graders in his music class before selecting a boy named Dakota. The students are putting the final touches on their song, “We Are Superheroes,” and […]
Four Urban Planning grads submit winning proposals netting $100K each for their ideas on how to shape the future of LA