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Gift creates scholarship endowment for popular JRI summer research program in China

The endowment will enable one UCLA sciences and/or engineering undergraduate student to participate in a three-month research program in China.

A new perspective on U.S.-Israel relations

At the Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies' 6th “Israel in 3D” conference, participants from Israel and the United States will explore connections between the countries beyond the political sphere.

New Haitian migration patterns end in displacement

Haitians have created new migration strategies to places such as Tijuana, Mexicali, Venezuela and Brazil that often put them at risk for deportation.

CNES wins grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

National support for an innovative freshman course that is now being developed by a multidisciplinary faculty team at UCLA.

Shu-mei Shih named president-elect of ACLA

At the March 2019 annual meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, Professor Shu-mei Shih was elected to association's Board of Directors as president-elect.

In memoriam: Stanley Wolpert

Revered for his contributions to literature and the history of South Asia, Wolpert (1927–2019) taught history at UCLA for six decades.

Acclaimed architectural historian Zeynep Çelik to organize May conference at UCLA

Architectural historian and curator Zeynep Çelik has been awarded the UCLA Giorgio Levi Della Vida Award in Islamic Studies. As part of the award, a conference will be convened on her scholarly interests and contributions to the field at the Center for Near Eastern Studies later this spring.

News media need to look to their own house in Trump era, says Bob Woodward

Veteran journalist Bob Woodward urged the news media to re-commit to foundational reporting at an annual lecture honoring the memory and legacy of fellow journalist Daniel Pearl.

Two UCLA scholars receive ACLS Fellowships

Andrea Goldman (history) and Ippolytos Kalofonos, M.D./M.P.H. (Geffen School of Medicine/ International Institute) were recently awarded 2019 ACLS Fellowships. Goldman is a member of the faculty advisory committee of the Center for Chinese Studies; Kalofonos teaches in the Institute's Global Health Program.

PRI's Jason Cong wins award for collaborative paper

Jason Cong, professor of computer science and co-director of the PKU-UCLA Joint Research Institute, and his co-authors won the best paper award at the 27th international symposium of the Association for Computing Machinery/Special Interest Group on Design.

Offering a new look at Israel's external relations

Y&S Nazarian Center Postdoctoral Fellow Shaiel Ben-Ephraim looks at Israel in the global arena and plans on using insights from his research to inform his Spring course on modern Israel.

Center for Korean Studies Undergraduate Fellowship

To foster interest and scholarship in Korean Studies, Center for Korean Studies is selecting two undergraduate students as CKS Undergraduate Fellows.

New endowment strengthens and diversifies Latin American Studies M.A. Program

The Sandra Mabritto Memorial Fellowship Fund will provide permanent support for master's degree students in Latin American Studies at UCLA, laying the foundation for the program's sustainability.

U.S. archives on Vietnamese refugees fail to tell a balanced history

Speaking at CSEAS in winter 2019, Long T. Bui contended that archives are not simply repositories of historical documents, but political institutions that can reinforce racist discourses.

Serendipity, history and the creative imagination

The latest works of novelist and literary scholar José Luiz Passos explore the limits of fiction and history, giving readers emotional connections to historical events and figures.

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Authoritarianism and the limits of U.S. foreign policy

Kal Raustiala, director of the Burkle Center for International Relations, participated in a Zócalo Public Square/ UCLA Downtown LA event on Jan. 30, 2019. “Trump has a great affection for authoritarians around the world...,” said Raustiala. "But there are restraints on that power." Read the full story on the Zócalo website.

Offering ctizenhshp is good for individuals and for America

Jan 25., 2019. Writing in Common Dreams with Renee Luthra and Thomas Soehl, Roger Waldinger (director, Center for the Study of International Migration) argues, "In impeding naturalization, the Trump administration is forsaking long-term benefits for arguable short-term gains, and policymakers shouldn't play along. As our work shows, the United States would do better if it kept with the American tradition of naturalization..."

Laure Murat on the gilets jaunes

Jan. 12, 2019. "There is no need for doubtful references to history, it's the present and the future of our democracy which the gilets jaunes movement is questioning," writes Center for European & Russian Studies Laure Murat in the French newspaper Liberation. (In French)

Karen Nielsen co-authors new Zika study

Nov. 12, 2018. The New England Journal of Medicine published a study showing 15 percent of babies exposed to Zika in utero in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, developed severe abnormalities. The collaborative research study was co-authored by Nielsen, former director of Center for Brazilian Studies, and a team of M.D.s and Ph.Ds. from Brazil and the United States.

Alex Wang on China and the Paris Agreement

Dec. 7, 2018. Will the U.S.-China trade war and planned U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement reduce China's incentives to implement air emissions controls? As cited in the New York Times, Alex Wang of the UCLA School of Law observes, “It takes the pressure off of greater ambition and faster action. If you're coming from the perspective that we're already way behind, then the current dynamic is bad.”

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