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Utpal Sandesara becomes chair of global health minor
A doctor and medical anthropologist, Sandesara works as a clinician, researcher and professor at UCLA. As of July, he became academic chair of the International Institute's global health program, where he has been a faculty member since 2023.
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Utpal Sandesara, M.D., Ph.D., whose collaborative teaching and research involves multiple disciplines at UCLA. (Photo: Peggy McInerny/ UCLA.)
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Historian of premodern India the 25th winner of Giorgio Levi Della Vida Award
The author of 12 books and editor of three volumes of academic research, Richard M. Eaton has made signal contributions to the field of Islamic studies.
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Richard M. Eaton of the University of Arizona (left), with the Giorgio Levi Della Award bronze medal. (Eason photo: University of Arizona.)

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Facing Down the Russian Threat: A View from Estonia

A diplomatic discussion with Kristjan Prikk, Estonia's Ambassador to the US.

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“Bêtes Noires” by Robin Derby wins Caribbean Studies Association book award

The honor marks the second time the UCLA historian has received the rigorous Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Book Award for her work.

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Solar energy and immigrant labor projects win GDL Project Incubator funding

The UCLA Global Development Lab, a Bruin student association, celebrated its 11th anniversary at an end-of-the-year event in May. Presentations of international/community development projects developed by GDL members for its Project Incubator competition were the focus of the evening.

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Accomplished Bruin seniors win International Development Studies Awards

The three award winners of 2026 are living proof that the idealism of IDS students is paired with a deep commitment to doing the work on the ground and in the classroom that prepare them to make significant contributions to the world.

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Four International Institute students win Dean's Prize for research

The winners' four prizes account for roughly 21% of all Dean's Prizes awarded for creative and research projects in the humanities, arts and social sciences category this year — a stellar student achievement.

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Artist Gala Porras-Kim to speak at International Institute commencement ceremony

Interdisciplinary artist Gala Porras-Kim, who completed both a B.A. and an M.A. at UCLA, won a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship last year.

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Migrant workers in India's informal sector squeezed on all sides

At a recent CISA talk, journalist-author Neha Dixit spoke about the lived experience of poor rural Indians who emigrate to Delhi for work, only to end up living in near-permanent economic precarity.

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Breaking international law is easier for great powers

Jul 19, 2026. UCLA Burkle Center Director Kal Raustiala, speaking on The Global Dialogue podcast of Pakistan Alumni Global Network: “[S]ometimes big states simply break the rules and get away with it because they're big and there's little that can be done. You could use the example of Russia and Ukraine today, or the U.S. attacking Iran this year." Continue reading: Breaking international law is easier for great powers

Robin Derby wins book award for “Bêtes Noires”

"Bêtes Noires ranks first as the most theoretically rigorous, intellectually ambitious and epistemologically disruptive of the 40 books reviewed by the Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Book Award Committee. … [It] dismantles colonial discourses that demonize Haitian and Dominican cosmologies as merely “superstitious” [and] approaches indigenous memory, the animal world, spirits, and colonial histories as legitimate archives of knowledge…" Continue reading: Robin Derby wins book award for “Bêtes Noires”