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Global Medical Training Lends a Hand to Developing Countries

The nonprofit group's UCLA branch made its first service trip last spring break, to Nicaragua, The Daily Bruin reports.
Posted: 1/9/2009

New Services Offer More Protection to UCLA Travelers

As long as their travel plans are registered online, UCLA faculty, staff, and students can receive instant email warnings through a vendor working for UC.
Posted: 1/9/2009

Outgoing US Cultural Affairs Official Touts Social Networking Website

At a lecture cosponsored by the Burkle Center and student groups, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Goli Ameri introduces ExchangesConnect, a social networking website intended to bring a "new generation of digital natives" into conversation around the globe. Her bureau will also fund Indonesian dance performances on campus in spring.
Posted: 1/7/2009

An Architect for the Next Generation

As chair of UCLA's Department of Architecture and Urban Design, internationally acclaimed Japanese architect Hitoshi Abe has launched educational initiatives including a Laboratory for Cross-Cultural Studies.
Posted: 1/5/2009

UCLA Advanced Degrees Put to Work for Education in Afghanistan

Born in Kabul and brought up in Orange County, UCLA Islamic Studies alumna Parisa Popalzai says that war-torn Afghanistan needs the help of those who had to leave it. She applies skills learned at the Anderson School and the International Institute to two issues: giving Afghan kids with special needs a chance and training managers for a new economy.
Posted: 12/23/2008

Teresa Valenzuela: Bruin Angel

Valenzuela and family members raise money and collect items such as toys and backpacks for girls in a home in Sonora, Mexico.
Posted: 12/17/2008

Fowler Exhibit Showcases Marsh Arabs and Their 'Floating Houses'

Photographer Nik Wheeler, a Vietnam War photographer, photojournalist and now a freelance photographer, took the iconic National Geographic images of the Marsh Arabs, or Mad'an.
Posted: 12/15/2008

Textbook Drive for Iraqi Doctors Becomes International Movement of Giving

Operation Medical Libraries, which began with an e-mail request for donated textbooks from a UCLA alumnus in Iraq, has blossomed into an international movement in just 18 months.
Posted: 12/15/2008

UCLA Signs Historic Memorandum with Pediatric Institution in Tokyo

Leaders from Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA and Jikei University School of Medicine will collaborate to enhance research.
Posted: 12/5/2008

Researchers Fight the Stigma of HIV/AIDS

Faculty members at the UCLA Semel Institute are working with the Thai government to use innovative treatment models to battle the social and psychological side effects facing Thai families affected by the virus.
Posted: 12/1/2008

Israelis and Palestinians Put Humanity Above Politics to Save Lives

The duo, Noam Yifrach and Younis Al-Khatib, are the heads, respectively, of the Maghen David Adom (MDA) and the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS), the Israeli and Palestinian equivalents of the Red Cross.
Posted: 11/26/2008

Campus Resources Can Help Students Plan to Study Abroad

The UC Education Abroad Program offers more than 250 program options in more than 30 countries. There are also Travel Study Programs available through UCLA, as well as the Quarter Abroad Program.
Posted: 11/20/2008

Director of Latin American Institute Teaches Short Course in Rio de Janerio, Brazil.

From August 18 to 22, 2008, Professor Randal Johnson, Director of the UCLA Latin American Institute, taught a short course on literature, cinema, and television at the Globo Universidade and the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in collaboration with Globo Universidade.
Posted: 11/19/2008

Engineers Without Borders Constructs a Better World

From Thailand to Guatemala, UCLA's EWB chapter goes the distance for philanthropy.
Posted: 11/19/2008

Opportunities Fair Offers Selections Abroad

The fair featured representatives from a wide range of campus offices including the UCLA International Institute, the Career Center and the Foreign Language and Area Studies and Fulbright programs, reports the UCLA Daily Bruin.
Posted: 11/19/2008

UCLA Ranks 7th in US in International Students

The campus also sent the 11th largest U.S. contingent of students overseas in the latest year on record, according to the annual Open Doors report.
Posted: 11/17/2008

Bringing Africa to the Classroom

Organizers offered practical ways for the nearly 200 teachers to move beyond stereotypes about African disease, poverty, and chaos on the one hand, and safari animals and exotic customs on the other.
Posted: 11/10/2008

International Education Week 2008

International Education Week is an opportunity to celebrate the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide. This joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education promotes programs that prepare Americans for a global environment and that attract future leaders from abroad to study, learn, and exchange experiences in the United States.
Posted: 11/7/2008

New Focus on Central Asia's Puzzles

Over the coming three years, the UCLA Asia Institute will continue to promote study of Central Asia, with the help of outside faculty and new funding from the International Institute. Last month on campus, international scholars engaged in a day-long discussion on the region's history, arts, and cultures.
Posted: 11/6/2008

UCLA Opens Egypt's 1st Official Archaeology Field School for US Undergrads

Willeke Wendrich, a renowned UCLA Egyptologist, and her co-director Ren Cappers of the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen in the Netherlands, lead the 36-person field school. They arranged nine pairs of American-Egyptian student teams to work together.
Posted: 11/4/2008

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