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UCLA and AUA COVID-19 Vaccination Webinar for the Republic of Armenia
A webinar, which aimed to share expert knowledge, prepare participants for communicating reliable information on COVID-19 vaccines and discuss messaging around COVID-19 vaccination in Armenia was organized by the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, in collaboration with the AUA Turpanjian School of Public Health.
 
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Forgotten history of an 1871 race riot in LA's Chinatown
The Chinese Massacre of 1871 in Los Angeles was the first in a series of riots and killings documented along the Pacific Coast.
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Bringing a continental perspective to the Latin American Institute
Under the leadership of its new director, Rubén Hernández-León, the Latin American Institute will examine continent-wide dynamics and how they connect Latin America with the rest of the world.
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President of Palau, a UCLA alumnus, visits campus
Surangel S. Whipps, Jr., who earned an M.B.A. at the UCLA Anderson School of Management in 2012, became president of the Republic of Palau in January 2021.
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Professor Kian Goh gets new role at UCLA to foreground climate justice
As associate faculty director of UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy, Goh, who also serves on the CSEAS FAC, will bring a global perspective on environmental issues.
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Terasaki Center Director Hitoshi Abe receives Japanese government award
The Foreign Minister's Commendation is bestowed annually on outstanding organizations and individuals whose work in international fields has significantly promoted friendship between Japan and other countries.
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International Institute welcomes its students back to campus
Enthusiasm ran high at the outdoor Academic Programs open house on September 22.
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A global studies program that offers “best possible experience for students”
Maggie Peters, an associate professor of political science whose research focuses on migration, is the new chair of the International Institute's global studies program.
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UCLA named #1 public university for fifth year in a row
U.S. News & World Report's annual “Best Colleges” for 2022 again named UCLA the nation's top public university.
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Dr. Shant Shekherdimian Appointed Inaugural Associate Director for Healthcare Outreach for The Promise Armenian Institute
Dr. Shekherdimian is an associate professor of pediatric surgery at UCLA DGSOM. For many years he has been actively involved in various initiatives in Armenia's healthcare sector.
 
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UCLA faculty lead initiative to support Afghan scholars in danger
In an effort to bring Afghan scholars to UCLA, the Center for Near Eastern Studies is working to raise funds to support several visiting Afghan scholar positions on campus.
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Professor Alina Dorian appointed vice chair of the Los Angeles County Public Health Commission
Professor Dorian has over three decades of public health practice experience, two decades of which have been at UCLA, during which she's held multiple leadership positions.
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International Institute names Marjorie Faulstich Orellana associate vice provost
Orellana, a professor in the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies (Ed&Is) and associate director of the Center for the Study of International Migration, will assume her new position on January 1, 2022.
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Tracing global convergence and interconnection from Malacca & Ottoman Empire
The 2021 Sites of Encounter K-12 teacher workshop showcases these two major trade centers as prominent drivers of global integration and cultural diffusion.
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Decolonization of African thought and African studies
In a masterful lecture, Ndlovu-Gatsheni, professor and chair of epistemologies of the global south at Bayreuth University (Germany), laid out the intellectual history of decolonization in Africa and African studies and the many “turns” within it.
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