UCLA International Institute, December 12, 2024 — The International Institute led UCLA's annual commemoration of International Education Week (IEW) 2024 last month, November 18–22, with the support of 21 campus cosponsors. The week featured 46 events organized by 38 campus units, including schools, centers and student associations across the campus.
The array of events celebrating international education and exchange this year was impressive. Adventurous Bruins had many opportunities to experience the cultures of countries worldwide, beginning with a pre-IEW online interview of (Russian-language) Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov on November 13.
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A discussion of quality and accountability as it relates to products sold over e-commerce was cosponsored by UCLA's Center for Global Management and Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy as part of International Education Week 2024.
In celebration of International Education Week, staff from the UCLA Film & Television Archive have curated a small selection of footage from the Hearst Metrotone News Collection that features student activities from across the globe. This lighthearted selection of newsreel stories reveals a window into international student life over three decades.
Bruins lead U.S. universities with the most fellows chosen for the research abroad program
Democracy — and the planet — are at stake in elections and governance around the world this year. A recent panel discussion explored the impact of elections in India, Amazonia, Mexico and the European Union.
The Global Indigeneity Conference, held from August 22-25, 2024, in Banaue, Ifugao, brought together over 90 participants from across the globe, including representatives from the Philippines, Australia, Japan, Malaysia, Vietnam, Taiwan, and the USA.
The popular global health minor of the UCLA International Institute brings together Bruins who major in the social sciences and humanities with life sciences and pre-med majors.
Fulbright Specialist Awards support short-term international collaborations by UCLA faculty, enabling them to share their expertise and develop international peer networks.
New books by Stephanie Balkwill, Marjorie Elaine, Shaina Potts and David Kim arrive this fall.
Jason de León's “Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling” was recently honored as part of the longlist for the 2024 National Book Award for Nonfiction.
In his first year of teaching for the International Institute's global health minor, Sandesara created two new electives for the program.
Bats are a good model for mammalian longevity because like humans, they are mammals, and many species have evolved very long lifespans.
UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies met with His Excellency Notonegoro, Prince of the Yogyakarta Sultanate, to discuss potential collaborations.
A tireless traveler, UCLA's outgoing chancellor has taken an in-person, hands-on approach to positioning the university as a major player on the international stage.
The conference featured keynote addresses by the joint winners of the 2024 Giorgio Levi Della Vida Awards: historian Michael Cook and Islamic law professor and jurist Hossein Modarressi, both of Princeton University.
At the annual UCLA Global Development Lab showcase, members gave detailed presentations on internships and the international and/or community projects they developed over the past year.
Three 2024 International Women of Courage Award recipients shared their experiences at a recent UCLA Anderson School panel, inspiring a future generation of Bruin women leaders.
Mischa Gureghian Hall finished his B.A. in three, jam-packed years and soon heads to Oxford University, where he will do a law degree.
“UCLA is honored to join the U7+ Alliance and supports its timely mission of developing multilateral strategies to apply the intellectual and research resources of universities worldwide to the complex problems of our world,” said UCLA Vice Provost Cindy Fan.
Graduate student Supraja Saravanakumar did a public health internship in Kenya last summer with support from a Dr. Elizabeth Woldemussie Fellowship. Her work there built on many years of volunteer service in health education.
Diletta is the recipient of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Postdoctoral Fellowship (2023-2026), a highly competitive grant promoted by the European Commission.
UCLA and Agusan del Sur State College of Agriculture and Technology forge a new partnership for climate change and indigenous landscape management research in the Philippines.
Department Chair and Professor Kevin Terraciano's Florentine Codex project was recently featured in an online Winter 2024 edition of the UCLA Magazine and in El Pais in Spain.
UCLA Magazine delves into the team of UCLA alumni and professors who played an instrumental role in creating the Getty Digital Florentine Codex. The entire 16th-century encyclopedia of Indigenous Mexican knowledge and culture is now easily accessible worldwide for the first time in its history.
Graduate Student Paul Melas' recent conference presentation on the monastic community of Mount Athos, Greece, was covered by the National Greek press * agency and a dozen other Greek news outlets.
Sociocultural anthropologist Aomar Boum, a renowned scholar of Moroccan Jewish life and history, has been inducted as a member of the Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco.
