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VOA, NPR Report: UCLA Course Teaches High School Students Language of Their Parents, Grandparents
In innovative summer courses on campus, speakers of less commonly taught languages such as Hindi, Persian and Russian learn advanced skills and keep their heritages alive.
Posted: 8/4/2009
Local Teachers to Eat Up International Studies at UCLA
Rice, chicken, tea. Sounds like a meal, but in a summer class about international food, these staples are a jumping-off point for understanding rice's role in globalization, how rumors about chicken quality represent distrust of the global market and how a British obsession with Chinese tea led to slave raids in the Philippines.
Posted: 7/10/2009
Talk of Darkness: Human Rights in Morocco
A public reading and lecture by author and human rights activist Fatna El Bouih
Posted: 7/6/2009
Egyptologist pulls together threads woven through ancient civilizations
UCLA professor Kara Cooney illustrates the parallels between six traditions across 12 cultures and 10 countries in a six-part Discovery Channel series airing this summer.
Posted: 6/30/2009
Research Tool for Latin Americanists Expands in Region by Giving Back
'HAPI: the Database of Latin American Journal Articles' has increased its subscriber base in that region by giving its online library product away in some countries and charging less for it in others. HAPI had flexibility to make the change, which shortens paths to knowledge for scholars, because of its good financial health.
Posted: 6/19/2009
Language Teaching, Meet Innovation
This spring, two centers under the UCLA International Institute went live with standalone, online courses on Azeri and the Iraqi dialect of Arabic and with a custom application that allows instructors to share web-based lessons. Meanwhile, the New Language Classroom has added videos for instructors, and the Language Materials Project launched a portal for K-12 schoolteachers on "less commonly taught" languages.
Posted: 6/17/2009
More Than 400 Graduate from International Institute in 2008-09
Gen. Wesley K. Clark, a senior fellow at the Burkle Center for International Relations, keeps the message simple in his keynote address to the largest-ever graduating class of the Institute's interdepartmental degree programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Posted: 6/16/2009
Fowler Tells Story of Tea Through Art from Asia, Europe, US
'Steeped in History: The Art of Tea' runs from Aug. 16 through Nov. 19. In conjunction with the exhibition, the UCLA Asia Institute this fall will sponsor a series of lectures and a professional development program for K-12 teachers.
Posted: 6/9/2009
Survivor of Tiananmen Square Reaches Her Goal, a Ph.D.
Chaohua Wang will participate in the June 11 Ph.D. hooding ceremony for UCLA's Graduate Division, after completing graduate studies that were unexpectedly interrupted by the uprising that held China's, and the world's, attention for a month and a half.
Posted: 6/3/2009
AIDS Researcher Detels Wins Teaching Award
Roger Detels, a professor of epidemiology, is recognized for Distinction in Teaching at the Graduate Level.
Posted: 6/2/2009
Experts Bring Africa Alive for Young Students
Nearly 1,000 middle and high school students came to campus on May 30 for the Teach Africa Youth Forum, the last and largest event in a yearlong collaborative effort carried out in Southern California schools to increase awareness about Africa and its place in global affairs.
Posted: 6/2/2009
Teach Africa Educates Students in Royce
In a forum on Saturday, speakers addressed several topics to break stereotypes of life in Africa, The Daily Bruin reports.
Posted: 6/1/2009
Renowned Italian Sculptor Pietro Coletta to Install Piece on Campus Friday
The final piece will be unveiled Tuesday, June 2, at a 5 p.m. reception to coincide with festivities planned in Royce Hall by the Italian Consulate for Italy's Festa della Repubblica (Republic Day).
Posted: 5/28/2009
Mexican Writer Elena Poniatowska Addresses 250 on Literary Women
In a Spanish-language lecture on Latin America's women writers, the versatile and prolific Poniatowska explains that her vocation means something distinctive for Latin American women, and that passing centuries have brought little relief and appreciation for those who dare to make art.
Posted: 5/21/2009
Students Granted Pilipino Studies
Group lobbies successfully for new concentration within existing department, reports The Daily Bruin.
Posted: 5/21/2009
Japan Honors Notehelfer With Order of the Rising Sun
At a May 12 ceremony, the government of Japan recognizes former UCLA Center for Japanese Studies Director Fred Notehelfer for his contributions to history and Japanese studies in the United States. He is one of 70 non-nationals to receive the Order this year.
Posted: 5/13/2009
Professor in Japanese Studies Receives Award
Long-time former UCLA Center for Japanese Studies Director Fred Notehelfer receives the Order of the Rising Sun, one of the Japanese government's most prestigious decorations. The Daily Bruin looks at his legacy at UCLA.
Posted: 5/13/2009
Love on the Run
Let us count the ways: why people fall in love while studying abroad.
Posted: 5/12/2009
Predicting Social Change
Psychology Professor Patricia Greenfield has elaborated a new theory that explains rapidly changing values in terms of adaptations to different types of environments. She posits a long-term, world-wide trend.
Posted: 5/8/2009
Institute Hosts Conference on Latin American Economies
The gathering of international experts extends efforts of collaboration and exchange by the UCLA Latin American Institute.
Posted: 4/29/2009
UCLA Holds 1st Graduate Conference on Indonesia
Sponsored by the new UCLA Indonesian Studies Program, a graduate student conference promotes activism and collaborative scholarship about the world's fourth-largest nation.
Posted: 4/23/2009
UCLA Brings Egyptian Temple Karnak to Life
A virtual model and digital resources help students and instructors to learn about the historic, sacred site.
Posted: 4/22/2009
2 at International Institute Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Among the six new fellows on the UCLA faculty are Sanjay Subrahmanyam, a historian who directs the UCLA Center for India and South Asia, and Rogers Brubaker, a sociologist who serves on the Faculty Advisory Committee for the Center for European and Eurasian Studies.
Posted: 4/21/2009
Missed Opportunity Hurt US-African Relations for Decades
For the last half-century the United States has undermined itself in Africa by failing to distinguish itself from Europe and the colonial legacy, says Haskell Sears Ward, one of the first to graduate from UCLA with an interdisciplinary master's degree in African studies.
Posted: 4/10/2009
Finding the Cutting Edge of Fashion in Indonesia
The Graduate Quarterly profiles anthropology graduate student and Fulbright fellow Brent Luvaas.
Posted: 4/9/2009
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