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In Memoriam: Hans H. Baerwald

Hans H. Baerwald, UCLA professor emeritus and an internationally known scholar of Japanese politics, died at his home in Pope Valley, Calif., on June 2 at the age of 82. He directed the UCLA Japan Research and Exchange Program, the predecessor of the UCLA Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies, from the late 1970s until his retirement in 1990.
Posted: 6/15/2010

Toshie Marra named Librarian of the Year

Toshie Marra, a librarian in the UCLA Richard C. Rudolph East Asian Library, has been named the 2010 Librarian of the Year by the Librarians Association of the University of California, Los Angeles.
Posted: 6/15/2010

Two UCLA Fowler Exhibitions Showcase Arts of Korea

Korean art is widely recognized for its fine traditions of painting and classical ceramics. Yet the arts of Korea run a much wider gamut, and this summer, the Fowler Museum at UCLA presents two lesser-known but equally compelling genres of Korean art in the exhibitions "Life in Ceramics: Five Contemporary Korean Artists" and "Korean Funerary Figures: Companions for the Journey to the Other World."
Posted: 6/11/2010

Archaeologists Find Oldest Leather Shoe

The 5,500-year-old enclosed leather shoe, found with the laces intact, is of a type known in climes distant from Armenia.
Posted: 6/9/2010

Student Group Will Travel to Vietnam to Provide Basic Health Care, Promote Education

UCLA's Medical, Educational Missions and Outreach counterpart was established this past winter quarter to recruit UCLA students to join a UC-Irvine outreach mission.
Posted: 6/7/2010

Grants in Taiwan Studies Announced

The UCLA Center for Chinese Studies announces the awarding of research grants in Taiwan Studies for 2010-11. Congratulations to awardees IRENA CRONIN (Department of Asian Languages and Cultures) and ANTHONY ESTES (Department of Anthropology).
Posted: 6/4/2010

Three UCLA Researchers Receive Pacific Rim Grants 2010-2011

One faculty member and two graduate students won UC funding for work on Asian historical and societal issues.
Posted: 6/4/2010

UCLA Historians Explore Birth of Religious Tolerance in Europe

Bernard Picart and Jean Frederic Bernard's "Religious Ceremonies of the World" (1723-37) presented Europe's first sympathetic portrait of Muslims, Jews and followers of such Eastern religions as Buddhism, Confucianism and Hinduism. It delivered a sensitive portrayal of religious customs and ceremonies among Native Americans, beating Jean-Jacques Rousseau to the concept of the "noble savage" by three decades.
Posted: 6/3/2010

UCLA's Israel Studies Center Named for LA Philanthropists Younes and Soraya Nazarian

The Y & S Nazarian Family Foundation has made donations totaling $5 million to the university, which helped establish the Israel Studies Program in 2005 and created an endowment for the center.
Posted: 6/2/2010

UCLA Conference in Doha Opens with Address by Qatari Emir

At the 5th annual conference on "Enriching the Middle East's Economic Future," held in conjunction with the Doha Forum, distinguished participants search for practical solutions to regional issues. The three-day event has been organized by the UCLA Center for Middle East Development.
Posted: 6/1/2010

Education Secretary Praises NHLRC in Speech

In a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan singled out the "innovative" work of the National Heritage Language Resource Center.
Posted: 5/28/2010

Fowler Museum to Showcase Women's Textile Traditions of Southeast Asia

"Weavers' Stories From Island Southeast Asia" and "Nini Towok's Spinning Wheel" run from August through mid-December at UCLA.
Posted: 5/27/2010

Scholars Debate: Is China Becoming a Responsible World Leader?

The fundamental question of whether China is on the path to becoming a responsible stakeholder in world affairs or acting as a revisionist superpower was put to a prestigious group of China scholars from universities and think tanks across the country. Watch video of the keynote address by John Podesta, president and CEO of the Center for American Progress.
Posted: 5/27/2010

Taking Risks to Teach Lessons

The Daily Bruin student newspaper reports on one students long journey to bring a school to ethnic Karen refugees in Burma.
Posted: 5/27/2010

Burkle Senior Fellow Gen. Wesley K. Clark (ret.) in Newsweek: "Evaluating the Presidents Foreign Policy"

This month's Intelligence Squared U.S. debate: "Does Obama's Foreign Policy Spell America's Decline?" features Burkle Senior Fellow Gen. Wesley K. Clark (ret.) arguing against the motion.
Posted: 5/26/2010

Two Students Change the World, from South LA to Senegal

UCLA alumnus Brian Rishwain gave two $2,500 awards to urban planning doctoral students Ava Bromberg and John Scott-Railton, who brought an innovative, entrepreneurial spirit to social justice work. Scott-Railton is working in poor slums in Senegal to help the residents counteract devastating floods.
Posted: 5/26/2010

Two Students in East Asian Studies Program Receive 2010 Thomas Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship

Congratulations to Haenim (Grace) Yoo and Wendy Zheng; two outstanding scholars from the UCLA East Asian IDP program who were awarded 2010 Thomas Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship under Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.
Posted: 5/26/2010

Burkle Center Director Kal Raustiala in MSNBC: "Appeals Court Rules Against Bagram Detainees"

In win for Obama administration, court rebuffs those held at Afghan prison.
Posted: 5/25/2010

Burkle Senior Fellow Gen. Wesley K. Clark (ret.) Debates on Obama's Foreign Policy

Four experts recently gathered on an NPR broadcast to examine and debate the motion "Obama's Foreign Policy Spells America's Decline," part of the Intelligence Squared U.S. series.
Posted: 5/25/2010

Baking a Better World

Almost every Thursday evening of the academic year, a non-denominational group of volunteers gathers at the Hillel UCLA kitchen to bake challah bread. Proceeds go to a group that supplies Darfur refugees with solar-powered stoves.
Posted: 5/24/2010

'Atomic Mom' Filmmaker Reveals Secret Stories of the Bomb

At a symposium on the anti-nuclear weapons movement, director M.T. Silvia screens and discusses a new film about her mother's role at a Nevada testing site and the story of a Hiroshima survivor; and Steve Leeper, chairman of the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation, urges action by nonproliferation treaty signatories on disarmament.
Posted: 5/21/2010

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