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Brand received a B.A. in sociology and philosophy from the University of California, San Diego in 1997 and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2004. [ 2 ] Brand was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan from 2004 to 2006 and Carolina Population Center Fellow and Assistant Professor of Public Policy ...
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) [1] is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States.Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school then known as the southern branch of the California State Normal School which later evolved into San José State University.
The California Center for Population Research was founded in 1998 by Robert Mare when he joined the faculty at UCLA in sociology and founded the Center. He also held an appointment in statistics at the time. [5] The current director is Jennie E. Brand, Professor of Sociology and Statistics and co-director of the Center for Social Statistics.
The bulk of UCLA's student body belongs to the College, which includes 50 academic departments, 99 majors, 25,000 undergraduate students, 2,700 graduate students and 900 faculty members. [2] Virtually all of the academic programs in the College are ranked very highly and 11 were ranked in the top ten nationally by the National Research Council.
The UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs (officially the UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin School of Public Affairs) [1] is the public affairs/public service graduate school at the University of California, Los Angeles. The school consists of three graduate departments—Public Policy, Social Welfare, and Urban Planning—and an undergraduate program ...
UCLA is unveiling a new initiative to help students afford college without loans, seeded with a $15-million gift from Bruins alumnus and real estate investor Peter Merlone.
The United States Food and Drugs Administration is warning pet owners about a common medication given to pets to treat arthritis. The F.D.A. now says that the drug Librela may be associated with ...
University of Miami President Julio Frenk, a Mexico-born global health expert, will become the next chancellor of UCLA and first Latino tapped to lead the nation’s top public research university ...