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European Classical Meets Japanese Nagauta

Terasaki Chair Thomas Rimer discusses the beginnings of Western classical music in Japan and the life of Japan's first well-known composer.
Posted: 5/8/2008

Ravishing

On May 7th, MAKE ART/STOP AIDS and the International Institute will host AIDS|SIDA - Global Updates, Art, and Performance, from 1 to 5pm, Kaufman Hall 200. Noel Alumit reviews the exhibition now at the Fowler Museum.
Posted: 5/7/2008

The Power of Partnerships

The death of a local Hmong woman compelled Lillian Lew and Marjorie Kagawa-Singer, a UCLA professor of public health and Asian American studies, to take action.
Posted: 4/22/2008

UCLA Faculty Research on China: Professor Virginia C. Li

"Going to China is for testing methodologies, not just for projects"
Posted: 2/21/2008

Please Listen, People: Addressing HIV/AIDS in Bengali Scroll Paintings

on display at the Fowler Museum, March 16 through July 12, 2008
Posted: 2/12/2008

International Institute Grants Boost 8 Faculty Projects

The next round of applications for UCLA International Institute faculty grants, for globally oriented outreach and research, is due on March 3, 2008.
Posted: 2/11/2008

Be More Aware of the World's 'Bottom Billion'

Why don't we teach global health demographics along with such fundamentals as reading and writing well before young people enter college and medical school?
Posted: 2/6/2008

Preparing for Global Warming's Health Crisis

Global climate change is more than a weather phenomenon; it is also a major public health issue.
Posted: 2/6/2008

Hope, Economic Transformation in Iraqi Marshlands

Peter Reiss, director of a USAID program to restore the world's second-largest wetlands, explains how Saddam Hussein's drainage of the area has altered an ancient culture.
Posted: 11/28/2007

At UCLA, Mongolia's First Lady Seeks Ties with 'Third Neighbor'

Tsolmon Onon Enkhbayar addresses UCLA scholars and members of L.A.'s Mongolian community.
Posted: 10/30/2007

South African Heritages and Their Owners

On a trip to Cape Town, Laura Foster, an attorney and UCLA doctoral student in women's studies, discovers that intellectual property rights are not marginal concerns for marginalized and historically oppressed communities. They're near the center of efforts to reclaim and reaffirm cultures.
Posted: 10/5/2007

AIDS Fight Needs Course Correction, Say Panelists

Prescriptions for combating the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa, Latin America, and Eastern Europe include increased funding, focus on local disease drivers, and reassertion of public health goals over political concerns.
Posted: 6/12/2007

Princeton Philosopher Urges Rich to Give More to Poor

Peter Singer's message is uncomfortable: Most people follow a minimalist morality that makes them a lot more immoral than they consider themselves to be.
Posted: 6/4/2007

Crisis Persists in El Salvador

Fifteen years after El Salvador's civil war, says Blanca Flor Bonilla, a member of the Legislative Assembly, extreme poverty is promoting organized crime, mass emigration, and the disintegration of families.
Posted: 5/28/2007

Women Politicians from Mexico Advocate Change

Representatives of four Mexican political groupings discuss the limited participation of women in politics and seek to build on reforms.
Posted: 4/24/2007

Tackling an Invisible Invader

A local center of excellence could not only diagnose and treat patients with Chagas disease, but also focus on other imported infections unfamiliar to most area physicians.
Posted: 3/26/2007

Bruin Angels: Niranjala and Lokubanda Tillakaratne

Using primarily their own savings, they fund self-help projects for poor Sri Lankan villages, where the Tillakaratnes spend their vacation time each year.
Posted: 12/13/2006

UCLA Digital Library Presents International HIV/AIDS Posters

Online collection of 625 posters from worldwide public health campaigns marks World AIDS Day.
Posted: 11/30/2006

Unknown Voices from Argentina

Photographer Patrick Liotta and Mapuche Indian performer Beatriz Pichi Malen tell of the Mapuche people's bravery and determination in confronting wars, poverty, and domination by various groups.
Posted: 11/17/2006

Democracy's No Panacea for Poverty, Study Finds

Michael Ross, a UCLA political scientist, concluded that democratic countries do no better than their non-democratic counterparts in helping the world's poorest citizens -- a troubling finding, he said, that contradicts the claims made by a generation of scholars.
Posted: 11/8/2006

Experts Assess Iraq's Horrific Toll

Health-care professionals intimately familiar with the war's effects on bodies and minds shared their perspectives at a conference sponsored by Physicians for Social Responsibility, UCLA Extension, and the School of Public Health.
Posted: 11/8/2006

Hope for the World's Dwindling Supply of Drinking Water

The new reverse osmosis (RO) membranes offer a huge improvement over current ones, which clog easily when bacteria and other particles build up on the surface.
Posted: 11/8/2006

Lebanon's War With Cluster Bombs

The 40% of Israeli-dropped 'bomblets' that didn't explode during this summer's war continue to kill Lebanon's most vulnerable, writes Professor Saree Makdisi in the Los Angeles Times.
Posted: 10/25/2006

Bright Lights, Hard Lives

The people of Nigeria's southern delta region benefit little from oil wealth. UCLA panel discussions focus on the causes of their distress.
Posted: 10/11/2006

Speaker Series Measures Laws' Reach in Americas, Beyond

'Transnational moral entrepreneur' and founder of Drug Policy Alliance, Ethan Nadelmann steps back from anti-drug-war stance to look historically at intersection of crime control and international relations. The UCLA Latin American Center is co-sponsoring lectures tied to law school course on globalization.
Posted: 9/26/2006

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