A GLOBAL COMMUNITY

As the world grows increasingly interconnected—socially, technologically, culturally, environmentally—the UCLA College remains a vital hub for cutting-edge research, education and service, as the following pages attest. Our features in this issue showcase this Bruin-focused interconnection. They highlight how the visionary, interdisciplinary UCLA College community unites around challenges and opportunities to push knowledge forward, including navigating the era of big data with true equity and innovation, exploring the countless ways to study and fight viruses, and achieving far-reaching outcomes with the entire globe as a UCLA classroom.

We also welcome two distinguished new voices to the College’s leadership team: Alexandra Minna Stern, dean of humanities, and Abel Valenzuela, interim dean of social sciences. In their brief tenure thus far, they have already proved to be phenomenal leaders, and we deeply look forward to this next chapter in the College’s remarkable history.

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