The Institute in the News
Taking down Anwar al-Awlaki shows the US is winning against al-Qaida
With the takedown of Anwar al-Alwaki, one more leadership piece of al-Qaida has been smashed. But even more importantly, this demonstrates the effectiveness of the US's adaptation to strike directly and covertly at terrorists, anywhere in the world, says Wesley Clark, senior fellow, Burkle Center for International Relations.
Posted: 10/2/2011
José Bedia's spiritual and physical journeys
"Transcultural Pilgrim: Three Decades of Work by José Bedia," a comprehensive retrospective of work by the famed Cuban American artist is highlighted in a Los Angeles Times article. The exhibition is on display at the Fowler Museum at UCLA September 18, 2011 - January 8, 2012.
Posted: 9/28/2011
Albright, Hagel: Language cuts endanger U.S.
The modest funding for International Education and Foreign Language Studies is vital to maintaining and enhancing our critical workforce needs. The institutional capacity on university campuses across the nation that exists today has taken decades to build and would be impossible to easily recapture once these programs are slashed. These cuts threaten that capacity.
Posted: 7/18/2011
Los Angeles Film Fest includes program on Cuba
L.A. Downtown News reports that the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival (June 16-26), will showcase films representing 30 countries. This year's International Spotlight, co-sponsored by the Latin American Institute, focuses on films from Cuba. The program includes Latin American Institute host film Operation Peter Pan: Flying Back to Cuba, a documentary about 14,000 Cuban children who in 1961 and ’62 were sent by their parents to the United States.
Posted: 6/10/2011
Reconnecting With the Mother Tongue
An article in Education Week about federal budget cuts for K–12 and college-level foreign-language instruction programs highlighted UCLA's National Heritage Language Resource Center programs, which give students a chance to learn or reconnect with their ancestral languages.
Posted: 6/3/2011
Global Warming's Effect on Arctic Transport
The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported on a UCLA study showing that global warming over the next 40 years will likely open up Arctic shipping routes while severely limiting transportation along inland trucking routes. Study author Scott Stephenson, a UCLA graduate student in geography, was quoted.
Posted: 6/1/2011
Korea shows how to keep identity in global age
UCLA prof. John Duncan says globalizing Korean Studies is key task for scholars outside peninsula
Posted: 6/1/2011
New Ambassador to Russia
An article in Tuesday's Moscow Times about President Obama's plans to appoint a new ambassador to Russia cited Daniel Treisman, UCLA professor of political science, as one of the foremost experts on Russia since the Cold War.
Posted: 6/1/2011
Global Warming's Effect on Arctic Transport
A UCLA study showing that global warming over the next 40 years will likely open up Arctic shipping routes while limiting inland trucking was highlighted Sunday by Reuters; Monday by Agence France-Presse, the Toronto Globe & Mail, Canada's Postmedia News, the London Times, a Nature blog and the Alaska Dispatch; and today by the Wall Street Journal's MarketWatch. Study author Scott Stephenson, a UCLA graduate student, and co-author Laurence C. Smith, UCLA professor of geography, were quoted.
Posted: 5/31/2011
Sexual Harassment in France, U.S.
France's Politis on Thursday featured an interview with Abigail Saguy, associate professor and vice chair of the UCLA Department of Sociology, about the Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair and differences in the way issues of sexual harassment are addressed in France and the U.S.
Posted: 5/31/2011
Are Winds of Change Passing Palestinians?
Wednesday's Daily News Egypt featured an op-ed by Saree Makdisi, UCLA professor of English and comparative literature, on President Obama's recent speech about U.S. policy in the Middle East and how it applies to Palestinians.
Posted: 5/26/2011
Sebastian Edwards
Edwards, the Henry Ford II Professor of International Management at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, was quoted Tuesday in a Reuters column about Asia not putting forth a candidate to head the International Monetary Fund following Dominique Strass-Kahn's departure.
Posted: 5/26/2011
Steven Spiegel
Spiegel, professor of political science and director of UCLA’s Center for Middle East Development, was quoted Tuesday in an International Business Times article about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress on May 24.
Posted: 5/26/2011
Thu-Huong Nguyen-vo
Nguyen-vo, UCLA associate professor of Asian languages and cultures, is quoted today in a Philadelphia Inquirer article about the cultural gap between Vietnamese immigrants and their American-raised children.
Posted: 5/26/2011
UCLA Center for India Presents Award
India West reported Monday a campus event organized by UCLA's Center for India and South Asia at which Yale professor Tariq Thachil was honored with the Sardar Patel Award, administered by the center, for his research on modern India. Center director Sanjay Subrahmanyam, UCLA's Doshi Professor of Pre-Modern Indian History, was quoted.
Posted: 5/26/2011
Distinguishing Scandalous From Criminal
National Public Radio's "Talk of the Nation" on Monday referenced a Washington Post op-ed by Juliet Williams, UCLA associate professor of women's studies, criticizing the way in which the media has referred to both former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s adulterous affair and former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn's alleged sexual assault as "sex scandals."
Posted: 5/24/2011
Distinguishing Scandalous From Criminal
The Washington Post featured an op-ed by Juliet Williams, UCLA associate professor of women’s studies, criticizing the way in which the media has referred to both former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s adulterous affair and former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn's alleged sexual assault as "sex scandals."
Posted: 5/23/2011
History of Tetanus in U.S., Abroad
Saturday’s Los Angeles Daily News featured a column by Dr. Claire Panosian Dunavan, clinical professor of infectious diseases at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, about the low incidence of tetanus in the U.S., due mainly to routine health care and vaccinations not always available in other countries.
Posted: 5/23/2011
Prof Speaks About Dead Sea Scrolls
Robert Cargill, adjunct assistant professor of Near Eastern languages and cultures and instructional technology coordinator for UCLA's Center for Digital Humanities, was interviewed Friday on Fresno's KMJ-580 AM about ancient Hebrew texts and his research on the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Posted: 5/23/2011
Sexual Harassment in France, U.S.
Canada’s Edmonton Journal on Sunday featured an interview with Abigail Saguy, associate professor and vice chair of the UCLA Department of Sociology, about the Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair and differences in the way issues of sexual harassment are addressed in France and the U.S.
Posted: 5/23/2011
William Bodiford
Bodiford, UCLA professor of Asian languages and cultures, is quoted today in a Los Angeles Times article about how pedestrian crosswalk etiquette in Japan reflects cultural values.
Posted: 5/23/2011
New Developments in Mideast
James Gelvin, UCLA professor of history, was interviewed Tuesday on KCRW-89.9 FM's “To the Point” about current developments in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
Posted: 5/18/2011
Gabriel Danovitch
Danovitch, medical director of the kidney and pancreas transplant program at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, was quoted Wednesday in a Bloomberg article about the illicit global market for organ transplants.
Posted: 5/16/2011
Raul Hinojosa-Ojeda
Hinojosa-Ojeda, UCLA associate professor of Chicano studies, was quoted Sunday in a Los Angeles Times article about various states' approaches to the issue of college tuition for undocumented immigrants.
Posted: 5/16/2011
China's Declining Birth Rate
C. Cindy Fan, UCLA professor of geography and Asian American studies, was interviewed today on China Radio International's “Today” show about new data from China's census showing that the country now has as many senior citizens as children.
Posted: 5/10/2011
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