When President Barack Obama got to Question No. 9 on the 2010 Census, he did what mixed-race respondents nationwide were asked to do: pare down and define his complex racial background by checking all the boxes he saw fit.
Author Archives: Brittany Wong
UCLA faculty and students volunteer dental services at Remote Area Medical’s week-long free clinic in Los Angeles
Dr. Edmond Hewlett had seen his fair share of teeth over the course of two days of double shifts at the free medical clinic at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, but one set stood out.
Drug-related violence overshadows life in Mexican border towns
Looking down from the hilltop of her family’s San Diego home, Monica Hernandez can see the sweep of the Tijuana skyline.
25,000 run from stadium to sea
As his tightening quads pushed through the last eight miles of the Los Angeles Marathon, Kellen Jones’ mind was focused on one thing.
Darwin’s ideas live on in popular lecture series
Thirty or 40 years ago, the textbook for an evolutionary biology class would be thick with facts on the fossil record, comparative anatomy and taxonomy.
UCLA professor records quake evacuees’ stories
About a month ago, Professor Robin Derby arranged a trip to the Haitian-Dominican border to collect Haitian narratives for an extended research project on the “loup-garou,” the shapeshifting were-creature of Caribbean supernatural folklore.
American Dialect Society votes “˜Google’ as English word of the decade
While Twitter users busied their fingers last week with tweets about the American Dialect Society’s selection of “Google” as word of the decade, English professor Donka Minkova, a member of the society for 25 years, lamented the fate of a word she believes should have been a contender: Sudoku, the popular Japanese number puzzle.