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Visit to Kuwait expands international knowledge, understanding for nine UCLA students
Nine UCLA political science students recently returned from Kuwait, where they learned first-hand about life in Kuwait and some of the issues facing its citizens.
Posted: 9/29/2011
American Institute for Indonesian Studies Established in 2011
The American Institute for Indonesian Studies is a new nonprofit educational organization formed as a consortium of U.S. universities and colleges with an interest in furthering the development of Indonesian studies.
Posted: 9/19/2011
Fowler Museum presents retrospective of Cuban American artist José Bedia
Fowler exhibition "Transcultural Pilgrim: Three Decades of Work by José Bedia" opens September 18. Large-scale figurative paintings and drawings and an installation by José Bedia come together in this major retrospective that explores the artist’s spiritual genealogy as it relates to his Cuban-based religion and its central African source, as well as his explorations of the beliefs of indigenous American peoples.
Posted: 9/19/2011
Graduate Student Profile: Tom Narins (Geography)
Research about China’s National "Humiliation Maps"
Posted: 9/8/2011
Religious and Ceremonial Art in the Caribbean
Lecture by Dr. Ysamur Flores-Peña, Otis College
Posted: 8/18/2011
Dance Practices of Latin America: Salsa as Social Resistance
Lecture by Ana Maria Alvarez, UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures
Posted: 8/15/2011
Garifuna Identities and Politicas in Contemporary Honduras
Lecture by Dr. Mark Anderson, UCSC
Posted: 8/15/2011
African Catholics and Christian Subjects
Lecture by Dr. Rachel O'Toole, UCI presented on the 2011 Summer K-12 Workshop.
Posted: 8/14/2011
Fugitive Acts and Fragile Freedoms
Lecture by Dr. Rachel O'Toole, UCI Department of History
Posted: 8/14/2011
The Atlantic Slave Trade in Global Context
Lecture by Dr. Emily Musil Church presented on the 2011 Summer K-12 Workshop.
Posted: 8/14/2011
UCLA Confucius Institute sponsors 52 high schoolers on China trip
UCLA's Confucius Institute and other organizations are sponsoring 52 high school students from the Los Angeles area and Tucson, Ariz., who are in China this summer as part of an initiative between the U.S. and China to significantly increase the number of young Americans studying in the Asian nation.
Posted: 8/1/2011
UCLA Awards 552 International Studies degrees in 2010/2011
The UCLA International Institute expects to award 552 degrees for the 2010/2011 academic year.
Posted: 7/28/2011
UCLA makes big splash at Little Tokyo Design Week in L.A.
The work and expertise of faculty and students from UCLA Architecture and Urban Design will be on prominent display at Los Angeles' first-ever Little Tokyo Design Week, a four-day celebration of leading-edge design and technology trends emerging from Japan and Los Angeles. The event runs from July 14 to 17 in L.A.'s Little Tokyo neighborhood.
Posted: 7/15/2011
Michael Heim Speaks on Learning Languages
Michael Heim on the Role of Motivation in Learning Languages
Posted: 7/14/2011
A Model Concept to encourage new Scholars
The new Lemelson Anthropological Scholars Program will link faculty and students in relationships that create opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to conduct original field research.
Posted: 7/11/2011
UCLA News|Week: Mandarin immersion
Kindergarteners at a Los Angeles public school learn in Mandarin as part of a program supported by the UCLA Confucius Institute.
Posted: 6/22/2011
Nazarian Center announces undergraduate essay competition winner
The Nazarian Center for Israel Studies is pleased to name Lisa Weisshar winner of the first UCLA Undergraduate Israel essay competition.
Posted: 6/20/2011
Amharic heritage language class to teach reading, writing, culture to Ethiopian high school students in Los Angeles
Rahel Woldegaber understands how difficult it can be to teach children another language.
Posted: 6/6/2011
AUA President’s Visit to UCLA
American University of Armenia President Bruce Boghosian met with UCLA faculty and colleagues, with the goal of initiating fresh collaborations between the two institutions.
Posted: 6/1/2011
Summer School Enrollment Levels See Increase in International Students and First-Year Admits
Enrollment is flat overall, with lower interest from students at other University of California schools, reports the Daily Bruin.
Posted: 5/31/2011
Summer School Enrollment Levels See Increase in International Students and First-Year Admits
Enrollment is flat overall, with lower interest from students at other University of California schools, reports the Daily Bruin.
Posted: 5/31/2011
Environmental Education Is Failing: New Book
Schools must revamp how they teach about the environment to prevent ecological collapse, conservationist Charles Saylan and UCLA life scientist Daniel T. Blumstein argue in "The Failure of Environmental Education (And How We Can Fix It)."
Posted: 5/16/2011
Environmental Education Is Failing: New Book
Schools must revamp how they teach about the environment to prevent ecological collapse, conservationist Charles Saylan and UCLA life scientist Daniel T. Blumstein argue in "The Failure of Environmental Education (And How We Can Fix It)."
Posted: 5/16/2011
Buddhists, Neuroscientists Come to a Meeting of the Minds
The symposium brought researchers from UCLA’s Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior together with eminent Buddhist scholars for a two-hour conversation about their distinctive yet complementary understandings of compassion, creativity, mental flexibility and attention, as well as the role mindfulness meditation may play in cultivating these qualities.
Posted: 5/10/2011
Getting to the HIV Test: It Takes a Village
If you want to improve HIV testing rates in remote rural areas, get the community involved, says UCLA's Thomas Coates, who has directed a new study examining HIV testing programs in communities in Africa and Southeast Asia.
Posted: 5/6/2011
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