Can a DNA Test Determine Partner Compatibility?San Diego-based matchmaking site SINGLDOUT has joined the ranks of other dating services using DNA to determine compatibility with partners. They’ve taken it a step further by launching a forthcoming mobile app to make finding love even easier. Once signed up, users receive a DNA kit where they provide a saliva […]
Like a Pro: 7 Tips for Powerful Public SpeakingSylvia Merschel, who teaches Communication Studies 1A during the UCLA Summer Session, is one of the experts featured in the December 2014 issue of “Student Health 101”:7 Tips for Powerful Public Speaking.Nail-biting? Check. Unavoidable? Check. Public speaking is likely in your future, whether you’ll be making a […]
Hard to Think Straight: Processing Prejudice. We all have a bit of irrationality in us. Even if we think of ourselves as logical and deliberative, we still make decisions and judgments based not entirely on the facts of the matter, but upon seemingly inconsequential information, random cues that we take from the world around us.Some […]
Henry Winkler–“The Fonz”–came to UCLA to speak as a guest lecturer for Fiat Lux freshmen seminar. Renowned for his 1970s sitcom “Happy Days” and a series of 29 children’s books, WInkler shared his process behind the books and personal anecdotes in “Collaborating in Hollywood: You’ll Never Make It in This Town Alone,” a class taught by communication studies chair Tim […]
When we see people we don’t know, we begin to make judgments about them and categorize them. Kerri L. Johnson, associate professor of communication studies and psychology, offers tips on how to see each person as a unique individual. Click here to read more.
And the winner of Forbes’ “$400,000 Pressure Cooker” is . . . Enrou – and winning with it are people in places as far from the Los Angeles start-up’s home as purse and backpack makers in rural Guatemala, cotton weavers in Malawi, and artisans in Laos who turn Vietnam War bomb remnants into jewelry. Click […]
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We are delighted to announce that veteran journalist and author Jim Newton is taking on a greater role at UCLA, as both a member of our staff and faculty. Jim is best known for his 25-year career at the Los Angeles Times, where he spent time as a reporter, editor, bureau chief, editorial page editor and columnist. In […]
A New Muslim Identity for Afghans?Protecting Islam was his first pledge when Ashraf Ghani took leadership in Kabul Monday. Given that Afghanistan has had an uninterrupted history of jihad for four decades, one would be right to assume that protecting Islam is hardly a neglected matter in this deeply religious yet profoundly corrupted society. After all, […]
Leon Panetta In Conversation with Jim NewtonBuy TicketsFriday, October 17, 20147:30 pmFox Theatre Redwood City, CA
