A Latin America Institute symposium finds that culture greatly influences how indigenous communities in Mexico, Central and South America experience Western medicine.
Posted: 3/14/2013
The nonprofit group's UCLA branch made its first service trip last spring break, to Nicaragua, The Daily Bruin reports.
Posted: 1/9/2009
Cultivating global citizens
Cindy Fan, interim vice provost for international studies and professor of geography, shares her experiences cultivating global citizens in the summer Travel Study program in China. Studying and living abroad offers students incomparable learning opportunities. . .
Bureaucracy Stifles Help for India's Poor
Akhil Gupta, UCLA professor of anthropology, was interviewed Nov. 28 on the BBC radio program "Thinking Allowed" about his new book “Red Tape: Bureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in India,” which explores how India's state bureaucracy hinders the fight against poverty.
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