The Barbra Streisand Institute is launching at UCLA
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The Barbra Streisand Institute at UCLA will focus on four areas the singer and actress is most passionate about.
The institute will focus on four areas the artist and activist and actress is most passionate about: truth in the public sphere, climate change, intimacy and power between men and women, and the impact of art on the culture, according to a press release. The institute's goal involves "solving societal challenges."
"It is my great pleasure to be able to fund an institute at UCLA, one of the world's premier universities. This will be a place where future scholars can discuss, engage and argue about the most important issues of the day; where innovators will speak truth to power, help save our planet, and make glass ceilings for women an anachronism; and in the process give us a chance to have a brighter, more promising future," the award-winning icon said in the release.