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    UCLA's glocal impacts

    At the signature event of International Education Week 2023, four distinguished members of UCLA spoke about how their work connects the global to the local and vice-versa.

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    Ralph Bunche's first meeting with Eleanor Roosevelt

    In an excerpt from his recent book, Burkle Center Director Kal Raustiala recounts the fateful meeting between Ralph Bunche and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt in 1940.

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Apply to the Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship program!

Academic-year and summer fellowships are available to support undergraduate and graduate students to study in modern foreign languages and area studies.

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UCLA celebrates International Education Week 2023

UCLA is a global university with a “glocal” vision: a vision that connects the world with local communities. In the city of Los Angeles, all global activities have local connections. The research conducted on our campus impacts people here in Los Angeles and around the world.

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Newly digitized Florentine Codex reveals Aztec culture, language

Scholars from the UCLA Latin American Institute are celebrating Getty's release of the digital version of the Florentine Codex, an unparalleled repository of 16th-century Indigenous Mexican knowledge and culture.

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Educational path leads to fascination with use of urban space

UCLA doctoral student Mustapha Outbakat returned to Morocco last summer to conduct initial fieldwork and archival research for his dissertation, aided by a fellowship from the UCLA African Studies Center.

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Popular global studies program nears its 20th year

Known for its talented, hardworking students, the interdisciplinary global studies program allows undergraduate Bruins to focus on their specific interests while completing a sequence of required courses.

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In Memoriam: Maryam Farzanegan

Farzanegan, who earned a Ph.D. in special education with a public health focus, taught at USC and UCLA for many years after a career with UNICEF.

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Sarath Pillai is the winner of the 2022 Sardar Patel Award

Pillai won the award for a dissertation entitled "Federal Futures: Imagining Federation, Constitution and World in Late Colonial India," completed at the University of Chicago.

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Ketaki Jaywant is the winner of the 2021 Sardar Patel Award

Ketaki won the award for a dissertation entitled "Secularizing Caste: Mapping Nineteenth-Century Anti-caste Politics in Western India," completed at the University of Minnesota.

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Workshop in Oaxaca immerses L.A. teachers in Indigenous Mexican culture

Latin American Institute summer program prepares K–12 instructors to bring new knowledge into their classrooms.

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UCLA Promise Armenian Institute 2023-2024 grant and fellowship recipients

The Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA — The UCLA Promise Armenian Institute is pleased to announce the following individuals selected for research support during 2023-2024. PAI grants and fellowships are designed to support research across all academic fields, with an emphasis on or connection to Armenia or Armenians.

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Gene Block to step down as UCLA's chancellor next summer

After 17 years at the helm of the nation's top-ranked public university, the campus's ninth chief executive will conclude his tenure in July 2024.

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Bilingual and bicultural migrant students bring assets, not deficits, to their educations

A webinar series on education of children who grow up on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border has created a unique resource for teachers, social workers and policy makers looking to learn more about this unique youth cohort.

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In memoriam: Richard Hovannisian, 90, celebrated professor of Armenian history

An illustrious researcher and educator, Hovannisian made monumental contributions to the study of the history of modern Armenia and the Armenian Genocide.

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UCLA alumnus Noah Mamet appointed to U.S. presidential arts committee

Mamet, a former U.S. ambassador to Argentine, earned a B.A. in political science at UCLA and is a long-term entrepreneur and business consultant.

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Training the next generation of Southeast Asian archaeologists

Stephen Acabado summarizes the motivation and importance behind the PEMSEA Archaeological Field School in Cambodia in summer 2023.

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December 2023 Calendar

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Author Meets Critics Session — Suffer the Little Children

Book presentation by Anita Casavantes Bradford, Chicano Studies, UCI; comment by Marjorie Orellana (GSEIS and......

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Nov 1, 2023. Speaking to The Guardian about law suits being filed by Palestinian Americans...More
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July 31, 2023. In an interview with La Jornada, Director of the Center for Mexican...More
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Anthropologist Aomar Boum, Maurice Amado Professor of Sephardic Studies at UCLA, has received the top...More

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