January 11, 1994 The Superhighway Summit is held at UCLA’s Royce Hall. It was the “first public conference bringing together all of the major industry, government and academic leaders in the field [and] also began the national dialogue about the Information Superhighway and its implications.” The conference was organized by Richard Frank of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences […]
Now available through the UCLA Political Science Youtube channel, a streaming video of April’s “U HEARD IT HERE” program: “20 Years Later—Waco and the Oklahoma City Bombing” at which UCLA Alum Steve Zipperstein, then a federal prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice during the 1993 siege at Waco involing members of the Branch Davidian […]
The UCLA Department of Political Science will host a reception at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA) in San Francisco on Saturday, Sept. 5 from 7:30 PM to 9 PM in the Market Street Room of the PARC 55 (Hilton) Hotel in San Francisco, 55 Cyril Magini Street (SF, CA […]
Political Science Department Summer classes continue now (beginning August 3) with Session C course offerings, which combine essential degree requirements with timely, topical alternatives. Introductory courses in Political Theory, American and Comparative Politics, and data analysis for research within the discipline, are available — as is an overview of world politics. Summer Session C […]
When the University of Oxford decided to make history this past week, it went for it — selecting the first woman to serve as head of that top international school, naming a UCLA alumna — with an M.A. in Political Science — and picking someone apparently not afraid of creating some controversy in her chosen […]
The 2015 Commencement Ceremony of the UCLA Department of Political Science will be held Sunday, June 14, beginning at 9:00 a.m., at Pauley Pavilion. More information about taking part is here. This year’s keynote speaker (pictured) will be Harvey Englander (BA 1972) the Managing Partner of Englander Knabe & Allen (EKA) — a major political lobbying firm based in […]
UCLA graduate (B.A. 1984) and now U.S. Rep. Mimi Walters (R-CA), returned to the department recently to speak with Prof. John Zaller’s PS 142A lecture class about the role party support played in her successful campaign for the House last year. Then outed by her staff as a fan of the “selfie,” Rep. Walters posed […]
Political Science and Public Policy Prof. Franklin D. Gilliam Jr., who has served as Dean of the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs since 2008, has been selected as the new Chancellor for the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. In announcing his departure this coming September, UCLA Chancellor Gene Block called Prof. Gilliam “a visionary […]
The final Marschak Colloquium event for this academic year delves into the pathways to collective intelligence from the view and through the research of a UCLA sociologist trained in mathematical physics. On Thursday, May 28, at the Young Research Library (Conference Room 11360), Prof. Jacob G. Foster of UCLA Sociology will present “On the Shoulders of […]
Mid-May means mini-homecomings for the presenters at upcoming American Politics Workshops sponsored by the Political Science Department as two UCLA Ph.D.s “return-to-the-scene” with updates. Profs. Seth Masket (2004; now at University of Denver) and Ryan Enos (2010; at Harvard University) will deliver back-to-back Monday afternoon departmental workshops. Prof. Masket presents at noon on May 11, discussing how individual U.S. states […]
