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Applications Open for 'Rethinking International Migration' Summer Seminar for College Teachers

Roger Waldinger, the interim associate vice provost of international studies, will teach a five-week, summer seminar on campus for college and university teachers. Professor Waldinger invites eligible scholars and educators to apply for this opportunity for intensive, interdisciplinary study of global migration.
Posted: 12/14/2010

'Art and the Unbreakable Spirit of Haiti' Opens Jan. 9 at Fowler

A related event Jan. 29 features discussions with filmmaker Jonathan Demme, journalists and scholars on Haiti and storytelling.
Posted: 12/9/2010

Salma, in Jordan

More than 50 years after they graduated, UCLA Fulbright coordinator Ann Kerr-Adams has interviewed six of her American University of Beirut classmates to discover the lives they have built in the Middle East.
Posted: 12/9/2010

Cellist Shares his Passion for Argentina's Rich Musical Heritage

As a child, cellist Antonio Lysy, a music professor at UCLA, visited Argentina's Pampas grasslands with his father, a renowned violinist. Steeped in its music, Lysy this year performed a concert of music from Argentina, including a song that recently won a Latin Grammy Award.
Posted: 12/6/2010

Italian Students Fight Education Reforms

Students throughout Italy demonstrated last week on college campuses and around some of the nation's most recognizable tourist attractions to protest cuts to public education. The situations in Europe and California share similar causes and reactions, reports The Daily Bruin.
Posted: 12/6/2010

Italian Students Fight Education Reforms

Students throughout Italy demonstrated last week on college campuses and around some of the nation's most recognizable tourist attractions to protest cuts to public education. The situations in Europe and California share similar causes and reactions, reports The Daily Bruin.
Posted: 12/6/2010

Steal This Plan for Civic Action

The UCLA Latin American Institute played host to five organizations that have been recognized by the Experiences in Social Innovation Contest, a United Nations initiative, for advancing UN-sponsored antipoverty goals through community participation. Last year's winner, the Social Observatory of Maringá (Brazil), seeks to prevent corruption in local government spending.
Posted: 11/23/2010

UCLA a Top Arrival, Departure Point for Students Globally

According to the 2010 Open Doors report issued by the Institute of International Education, UCLA ranked seventh among U.S. universities for the number of international students it enrolled during the 2009-10 academic year, up from eighth place. The campus was third in the nation for the number of its own students it sent abroad to study in 2008-09, up from fifth.
Posted: 11/17/2010

Big Experiences for Small Scandinavian Studies Graduate Program

The Scandinavian Section, which split off from the department of Germanic languages decades ago, is geared toward independent students who are responsible for their own learning and progress.
Posted: 11/8/2010

Robot Helps Professor Train New Surgeons in Italy

Using an android-like robot controlled with joysticks, UCLA's Dr. Erik Dutson is able to interact with trainees and faculty in Italy, answer questions and "move" around the room.
Posted: 11/3/2010

Rock Bands, Rock Brands of India

On her International Institute dissertation fieldwork grant, ethnomusicology graduate student Chloe Coventry traveled to Bangalore, in the south Indian state of Karnataka, to study the city's local rock music.
Posted: 11/3/2010

UCLA Officials to Meet with Prospective Students in Tokyo

UCLA undergraduate admissions officers will be in Tokyo on Nov. 4 as part of a student recruitment tour in Asia that also includes stops in Osaka, Seoul, Hong Kong and Singapore. The session will help explain the UCLA admissions process to prospective students and their parents.
Posted: 10/27/2010

Global TV News Lounge Opens

As of Oct. 26, five television monitors on the A-Level of Ackerman Union are tuned to viewpoints from Europe, Asia and the developing world.
Posted: 10/26/2010

Mexico at Crossroads, Says Top US Diplomat

U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Carlos Pascual discussed strategies for ending the impunity of drug cartels and stemming the flow of guns and drugs across the border. His visit to campus was organized by the UCLA Center for Mexican Studies, the Latin American Institute, and the International Institute.
Posted: 10/26/2010

Monks Make Tibetan Art at Hammer

For a few hours each day until Nov. 7, the lamas will follow ancient instructions to transform millions of grains of colorful sand into a four-foot-square Tibetan sand mandala on a table in the Hammer's glass-fronted lobby.
Posted: 10/26/2010

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

UCLA Events Explore Local, International Significance of Watts Towers

A conference and an exhibition about the iconic L.A. structure, which an Italian immigrant labored on for more than 30 years, follow up on a 2009 gathering in Genoa, Italy, cosponsored by the UCLA International Institute.
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

The Fabric of Life

More than 50 years after they graduated, UCLA Fulbright coordinator Ann Kerr-Adams has interviewed six of her American University of Beirut classmates to discover the lives they have built in the Middle East.
Posted: 10/14/2010

Qatar Building Partnerships for Security, Sustainability of Food Supply

At an Oct. 4 luncheon hosted by California Secretary of Education Bonnie Reiss and Chancellor Gene Block, the leaders of the Qatar National Food Security Programme explain their vision for a sustainable food supply to potential partners in academia and industry.
Posted: 10/8/2010

Around the World of Music in 50 Years

The Department of Ethnomusicology in the Herb Alpert School of Music now produces more ethnomusicology graduates than any program of its kind and houses an important collection of international musical instruments.
Posted: 10/7/2010

UCLA Nazarian Center for Israel Studies Dedicated, Donors Honored

The event, which was attended by Jacob Dayan, Israel's consul general in Los Angeles, and Sherry Lansing, vice chair of the UC Board of Regents, honored the Iranian American couple whose foundation has donated a total of $5 million to create the new center.
Posted: 10/7/2010

Chilean President Piñera, Gov. Schwarzenegger Visit Campus

The leaders witnessed the signing of memorandums of understanding between universities in California, including UCLA, and Chile.
Posted: 9/25/2010

International Students Adjust to Campus Culture

About 835 new international freshmen and transfer students enrolled at UCLA this academic year, compared with 570 last year. Nearly 1,000 new international graduate students also will be attending the university this year.
Posted: 9/24/2010

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