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    Bruins experience Australia's health care system through new travel study program

    “What's really important is not only what I learned in Australia, but how it is seen through a U.S. lens as well," said UCLA sophomore Fiona Xie about the program.

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    How UCLA leaders are championing global education and research

    The 2025 "'Glocal' Conversation'" at International Education Week addressed how internationalization is essential to the missions of the Division of Physical Sciences, UCLA Library and UNEX, and the ways in which these units are advancing global education and research in the face of serious challenges.

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    From left: UCLA's Miguel García-Garibay, Athena Jackson and David Kim. (Photo: Reed Hutchinson.)
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Going global: UCLA a top producer of student Fulbright winners

A dozen Bruins have been selected to teach and conduct research across Asia, Africa, Europe and North America in 2025–26.

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Recent IDS graduate off to a quality start

This Daily Bruin feature of Andrew Dong (UCLA 2025, international development studies) follows the story of how he created an online matcha tea business after graduation.

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Awards empower members of UCLA to expand university's global reach

The UCLA Global Advisors Council recently awarded 26 inaugural grants — 16 Global Education Awards and 10 Global Research Awards — to individuals across campus.

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International Education Week at UCLA offers an appealing mix of events and activities

The UCLA campus celebrated International Education Week 2025 (November 17–21) with a wide array of events and activities organized by units throughout campus, including a philanthropic organization.

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Bruins Abroad

Students with diverse majors integrate international experience into their UCLA educations via study abroad, travel study and global internship programs offered by UCLA Study Abroad.

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Kathryn Paul is advancing UCLA's ‘glocal' vision for the future

Paul is part of the senior leadership team that examines potential international projects for UCLA.

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Scholars Examine the Provenance of Arabic-Script Manuscripts at UCLA

On November 17, 2025, the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies and Professor Luke Yarbrough (UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures) co-organized a one-day workshop and a public symposium on the provenance of Arabic-script manuscripts housed at UCLA Library.

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Despite aggressive enforcement policies, immigrants have a sense of belonging

Feb 4, 2026. At a SciLine Media Briefing, Cecilia Menjívar (sociology professor & director, Center for the Study of International Immigration) said of the impact of current immigration rhetoric, “Different members of families are affected in different ways, but… it does not really decrease much their sense of belonging, especially for mixed status families… It does have an affect on safety, [as] people are not inclined to leave their homes.” Continue Reading
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Sea power and the law of the sea

Feb 3, 2026. In a review essay published in the AJIL, UCLA Burkle Center Director Kal Raustiala, writes, "The expanded access the accelerating climate crisis creates has made the Arctic a more realistic shipping zone, and hence a domain of ever-greater strategic and economic importance...The seas constitute a vast reserve from [the] regime of territorial sovereignty: a largely common space still wild, yet full of coveted and often shrinking resources." Continue Reading
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Oaxacan leaders on red alert about ICE operations

Jan 30, 2026. Speaking to La Opinión, Gaspar Rivera-Salgado (director, UCLA Center for Mexican Studies said, “[Recent] raids are not like the ones of years past. We haven't reached the levels of Mexican deportations under Obama.. but we are seeing the disproportionate and overt use of federal officers… employing heavy-handed tactics." Arrest numbers for Indigenous Zapotecs are tough to come by, but the majority CA arrestees have been Mexican. (In... Continue Reading

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Cybernetic Maoism and the Origins of the Chinese Internet6Feb2026

Center for Chinese Studies

Cybernetic Maoism and the Origins of the Chinese Internet

Uluğ Kuzuoğlu Associate Professor of History Washington University in St. Louis

Israel Film Festival: <i>Of Dogs and Men</i>8Feb2026

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Israel Film Festival: Of Dogs and Men

Join us on February 8th for the Center's sponsored screening at the 37th Israel Film Festival of this moving and...

Music Alive in the Archive: Celebrating the Music and Legacy of Hua Wenyi9Feb2026

Center for Chinese Studies

Music Alive in the Archive: Celebrating the Music and Legacy of Hua Wenyi

Through conversation, performance, and archival presentation, the evening honors Hua Wenyi's life, her teaching, and her enduring artistic spirit.

Greenland: Seeking self-determination between Europe and the US10Feb2026

Center for European and Russian Studies

Greenland: Seeking self-determination between Europe and the US

A conversation with Ulrik Pram Gad, senior researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies and specialist in the role...

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Meeting With Delegates From Konkuk University

DELEGATION 3 members Visit Date: 10/22/2025
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Meeting With Delegates From Uclouvain

DELEGATION 2 members Visit Date: 10/09/2025
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Young Pacific Leaders Alumni Roadshow

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