Professor Dov Waxman is set to take the helm at the UCLA Younes & Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies this January. He will succeed Professor Yoram Cohen, who has held the post since 2015.

Supported by 26 university cosponsors, IEW 2019 offered a wide variety of lectures, activities, performances and exhibitions at venues throughout campus.

Mexican schools are failing to recognize the unique value and needs of ethnically Mexican students who immigrated from the United States after spending years in the American education system, said scholars in a recent discussion.

Don't worry about changing your educational and career choices, reach out for help in identifying possible career paths and pursue what interests you most, say International Institute alumni.

Turkey invaded Syria to create a corridor that would separate Syrian and Turkish Kurds, provide a place to which it could deport more than one million refugees back to Syria and potentially destroy Syrian Kurdish governance of Rojava, says UCLA historian James Gelvin.