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    International Education Week celebrates UCLA's global commitment

    From Nov. 17–21, units across campus will host events highlighting international education, exchange and research.

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    Nov 19, 2024. Dancers from the Nigerian Student Association perform at Bruins Around the World during International Education Week 2024. (Photo: Oliver Chien/ Darlen Sanzon, UCLA.)
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    IDS major travels to Asia to study abroad

    “Nothing was as different [from my previous travels] as going to Japan," said international development studies major Max Odle of his study abroad program at International Christian University in Tokyo.

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Institute's development director sees new era of university funding

"We are in the middle of a generational shift in how public education operates in this country and I think philanthropy is going to play a bigger role. Donors will have to get involved a little earlier and stay a little bit longer,” said Howie Fitzgerald.

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New data upends myths about Mexican migrant labor

Temporary Mexican labor migration to the U.S. is largely legal today due to the rapid expansion of H2-A and H2-B visas, reversing a longstanding trend of unauthorized migrant flows.

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Latin American Studies and TFT alumnae awarded prestigious MacArthur Fellowships

With graduates Gala Porras-Kim and Garrett Bradley being honored, Bruins have accounted for 1 in 10 ‘genius grant' recipients over the past three years.

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UCLA alumnus improves students' educational skills for a globalized world

Yondonjamts Jigjidsuren (UCLA 2022) spent the past three years as a student mentor and teacher, first in Boyle Heights, then in Cambodia as a Peace Corps volunteer. He worked with the local community in his Cambodian town to create a computer lab for students, leaving a lasting legacy.

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Support for study of South Asian religions

A $1.5 million pledge to UCLA from Jasvant and Meera Modi will support the establishment of the Bhagawan Abhinandan Endowed Chair for Jain Studies and Religions of South Asia.

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New leaders join the International Institute

UCLA faculty take on new roles in the leadership of the International Institute, its academic programs and its centers and programs.

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UCLA faculty depart International Institute after dedicated service

We thank a number of UCLA faculty who have made significant contributions to the International Institute.

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Ippy Kalofonos: Supporting veterans with voices and visions

Jul 25, 2025. Ippolytos “Ippy” A. Kalofonos, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., chair of the Institute's global health minor and assistant professor in residence at the UCLA Semel Institute, launched a Veteran's Voices and Visions chapter at the Los Angeles VA. A Psychiatry Online article describes how the program, on which Kalofonos published a study, has benefited participants. Continue Reading
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Stephen Acabado on tequila distillation theories

July 21, 2025. UCLA anthropologist Stephen Acabado, director of the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies, writes in The Conversation that the Manila-Acapulco galleon trade route (1565-1815) "may help explain how distilled agave spirits such as tequila came into being. While tequila is unmistakably a Mexican creation, the techniques used to produce it may owe something to Filipino sailors…" Continue Reading
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LA labor unions and immigrants

July 1, 2025. Speaking to The New York Review of Books about labor organizing history in Los Angeles, Director of the UCLA Center for Mexican Studies Gaspar Rivera-Salgado noted, "In Los Angeles, labor started organizing and seeing immigrants as the future in the late 1980s." Article author Piper French notes, "Then, in 1986, came Reagan's amnesty bill, which granted millions of immigrants legal status and made them potential new union... Continue Reading

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Wine with the Curator: Belongings22Nov2025

International Education Week

Wine with the Curator: Belongings

Join us for an evening walk-through of Belongings with co-curator Erica P. Jones. This exhibition explores the complex journeys of...

An Afternoon with Jiang Nengjie25Nov2025

Center for Chinese Studies

An Afternoon with Jiang Nengjie

Screening and discussion with film director Jiang Nengjie

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Center for Chinese Studies

Hua'er: Mountain Songs of Gansu, China

Talk by Haiqiong Deng, Florida State University.

Past-Proofing the Future: Theorizing the Erasure of Djulfa, Twenty Years On1Dec2025

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Past-Proofing the Future: Theorizing the Erasure of Djulfa, Twenty Years On

Virtual lecture by Simon Maghakyan, Ph.D., with commentary by Professor Peter Cowe, Ph.D..

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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

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American Music And The Economy: A Multi-Regional Project

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