Professor and Chair Tim Groeling's "State of Department" Talk

Jacob FosterUCLA, Department of Sociology  “The Unknown Known: Science, Social Learning, and Cultural Evolution” “Science is an incredibly successful instance of social learning. Its practices produce and subtly organize the attention, effort, and creativity of millions of scientists, leading to rapid and cumulative cultural evolution. In this talk, I outline the striking convergence between this view of […]

Jacob Foster, Sociology, UCLA

Application ProcedureThe Communication Studies Application will be available on June 1, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. and will close on June 30, 2015 at 4:00 p.m.The Admissions Committee will arrange to receive your UCLA transcripts from the Registrar through the end of Summer Session A 2015.  General Information Students not admitted at the sophomore or junior level may reapply the […]

Aurelio FigueredoUniversity of Arizona, Department of Psychology “A Sequential Canonical Cascade Model of Social and Cognitive Biogeography” “A sequential canonical cascade model, detailing the hypothesized biogeography of human life history (LH) and intelligence (IQ), derives elevated levels of IQ through a series of causal steps, starting with the evolution of slower LH strategies based on both the […]

Dr. Kirk E. LohmuellerDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUCLAWhy do deleterious mutations persist in populations?Many mutations that arise in protein coding regions of genes are deleterious, resulting in a decrease in reproductive fitness. While such mutations are often eliminated from the population by natural selection, sometimes they can remain. In this talk I will examine […]

Admitting Syrian Refugees Debate with the Chinese International Debate TeamOn February 18th, from 12-2 PM, the UCLA Debate Team will engage the Chinese International Debate Team at the UCLA School of Law, Room 1457.  The topic: whether or not the United States should continue to allow Syrian refugees into the country. The debate will feature […]

Chinese Debate Team vs. UCLA Debate Team! Debating the entry of Syrian refugees into the U.S. With an afterword by Comm Studies Professor Paul Von Blum, J.D.