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UCLA Officials to Meet with Prospective Students in Osaka, Japan

UCLA undergraduate admissions officers will be in Osaka, Japan, on Nov. 1 and 2 as part of a student recruitment tour in Asia that also includes stops in Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Posted: 10/26/2010

Teaching to Your Taste Buds

This month, a Fowler museum curator is arranging a new kind of exhibit: specially ordered tasting menus at Southeast Asian island-specific restaurants. In November, the Fowler offers a Korean cooking class following a museum exhibition tour.
Posted: 10/22/2010

Hong Kong Meeting with Prospective Students Oct. 18-19

UCLA undergraduate admissions officers' recruitment tour in Asia will include stops in Singapore, Seoul, Osaka and Tokyo.
Posted: 10/14/2010

10 Questions: Miriam Robbins Dexter on the Power of Female Display

Miriam Robbins Dexter, a lecturer in the Department of Women's Studies and expert on ancient heroines and goddesses, and a co-author have completed a cross-cultural study of stories and artifacts in which women lift their skirts and expose their genitals, a performance that drives away enemies and returns joy and fertility to the land.
Posted: 10/6/2010

UCLA, Japanese Firm to Collaborate on Nanotech Imaging Tools

The California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA has announced plans to collaborate with Hamamatsu Photonics to apply nanoscience and nanotechnology to projects having global importance in health, medicine, energy and the environment.
Posted: 9/10/2010

Countries Far North Will Thrive on Global Warming

As global pressures mount, the New North is well-positioned to prosper economically in the 21st century, a UCLA author says.
Posted: 9/3/2010

Shanghai Visit Underscores Global Presence of UCLA

Approximately 20 faculty, administrators and staff from UCLA traveled to Shanghai to create new alliances and reinforce ties within the Bruin community in China with a weeklong series of events in one of the most dynamic cities in Asia.
Posted: 8/31/2010

Area Studies, Language Programs Win Almost $11 Million from Education Department

Over the coming four years, the UCLA International Institute's renowned programs on East Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Near East, Southeast Asia and heritage language education anticipate federal support of $6.7 million for language instruction, public programming, outreach to local schools, and more. Five centers will distribute nearly $4.3 million in Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowships to UCLA undergraduate and graduate students.
Posted: 8/9/2010

Exhibit Features Weavers

The UCLA Fowler Museum's exhibition "Weavers' Stories From Island Southeast Asia" focuses on traditional cloth and the women behind the looms. The show runs concurrently with "Nini Towok's Spinning Wheel: Cloth and the Cycle of Life in Kerek, Java," reports The Daily Bruin.
Posted: 8/9/2010

UCLA Author's Latest Novel: a Mother, a Nanny and Hard Choices

"My Hollywood," is a story of two women--Claire, a composer and new mother, and Lola, a nanny with five children back home in the Philippines--whose lives become intimately entwined through Claire's son, William.
Posted: 8/9/2010

Local Efforts Key to Nuclear Disarmament

Commemorating the atomic bombings on Japan in 1945 and joining in the call for a world without nuclear weapons were, on Wednesday in Haines Hall, a local grandmother who survived the Hiroshima attack, a Japanese-born artist, a UCLA anthropologist and, by Internet link, local officials from Hiroshima and Manchester, UK, who lead international anti-nuclear organizations.
Posted: 8/6/2010

Mandarin Teachers Gain Training at UCLA

Instructors travel from China to L.A. campus to learn U.S. classroom culture, reports UCLA's student newspaper The Daily Bruin.
Posted: 8/3/2010

UCLA to Participate in Global Symposium on Bombing of Hiroshima

To take place on campus as well as on the Internet, an hourlong event on Wednesday, August 4, will mark the 65th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and connect UCLA with participants in Japan, Germany, Russia and the United Kingdom.
Posted: 8/3/2010

UCLA Team Traveling to Shanghai to Expand Ties

The trip is part of a university-wide effort to expand UCLA's relationship with China on several levels, including study programs and alumni support.
Posted: 7/14/2010

2 in East Asian Studies Win Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowships

Grace Yoo and Wendy Zheng will finish interdisciplinary UCLA bachelor's and master's degrees under the fellowships, which provide additional support for graduate school and domestic and overseas internships with the State Department.
Posted: 7/12/2010

'Everyday Selves' Are Focus of the 2nd Indonesian Studies Conference

The second annual conference of the UCLA Indonesian Studies Program draws scholars together to think about "Indonesian Subjectivities."
Posted: 6/30/2010

UCLA at the Shanghai World Expo

UCLA in Shanghai Week, July 19-24, 2010
Posted: 6/29/2010

Counter-Narcotics Policy in Afghanistan May Benefit Insurgents, Analysis Finds

Drug-economy experts to discuss findings in Washington, D.C., July 6.
Posted: 6/24/2010

East-West Collaboration Brings Top Chinese Health Official to Campus

Chinese Vice Minister of Health Dr. Wang Guoqiang and a six-person delegation on a four-day U.S. trip chose UCLA as the only academic medical center to visit to learn how traditional Chinese medicine and integrative medicine are practiced as a new health care model in this country.
Posted: 6/17/2010

Student Group Will Travel to Vietnam to Provide Basic Health Care, Promote Education

UCLA's Medical, Educational Missions and Outreach counterpart was established this past winter quarter to recruit UCLA students to join a UC-Irvine outreach mission.
Posted: 6/7/2010

Three UCLA Researchers Receive Pacific Rim Grants 2010-2011

One faculty member and two graduate students won UC funding for work on Asian historical and societal issues.
Posted: 6/4/2010

Fowler Museum to Showcase Women's Textile Traditions of Southeast Asia

"Weavers' Stories From Island Southeast Asia" and "Nini Towok's Spinning Wheel" run from August through mid-December at UCLA.
Posted: 5/27/2010

Scholars Debate: Is China Becoming a Responsible World Leader?

The fundamental question of whether China is on the path to becoming a responsible stakeholder in world affairs or acting as a revisionist superpower was put to a prestigious group of China scholars from universities and think tanks across the country. Watch video of the keynote address by John Podesta, president and CEO of the Center for American Progress.
Posted: 5/27/2010

Taking Risks to Teach Lessons

The Daily Bruin student newspaper reports on one students long journey to bring a school to ethnic Karen refugees in Burma.
Posted: 5/27/2010

'Atomic Mom' Filmmaker Reveals Secret Stories of the Bomb

At a symposium on the anti-nuclear weapons movement, director M.T. Silvia screens and discusses a new film about her mother's role at a Nevada testing site and the story of a Hiroshima survivor; and Steve Leeper, chairman of the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation, urges action by nonproliferation treaty signatories on disarmament.
Posted: 5/21/2010

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