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The “Gaza Doctor” Abuelaish: Feminism Will Deliver Peace to the Middle East
On April 18, 2013, the Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies hosted Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, acclaimed physician, author and humanitarian, in a public talk entitled “Perspectives on Peace, Health & Hope: A Gaza Doctor's Journey from Personal Tragedy to a Search for Peace and Human Dignity”.
Posted: 5/2/2013
Culture matters, especially in medicine
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
Pioneer in HIV/AIDS research works on a global scale
When he was an undergraduate student at Harvard University in 1958, Roger Detels spent three months as an exchange student in Kanazawa, Japan. As one of the first few Americans in Kanazawa after the war, Detels — today a UCLA distinguished professor of epidemiology and infectious diseases — still recalls with amusement many of his experiences with his Japanese host family.
Posted: 11/8/2012
James Gelvin to Participate in Istanbul World Forum
Professor James Gelvin has been invited to the First Istanbul World Forum.
Posted: 10/10/2012
Curbing tobacco use by growing less
UCLA researcher initiates successful crop substitution project in tobacco-rich China
Posted: 8/13/2012
Young scientists earn summer scholarships to Peking University
Ten-week program offers valuable research opportunities and cultural experiences
Posted: 5/18/2012
Former supermodel screens debut documentary at UCLA
Maternal mortality is brought to light through film, upcoming talk
Posted: 5/10/2012
Former supermodel screens debut documentary at UCLA
Maternal mortality is brought to light through film, upcoming talk
Posted: 5/10/2012
UCLA-Peking University symposium highlights scholars' collaborative research, innovations
Finding solutions to global problems propels international cooperation
Posted: 5/7/2012
2012 Charles E. Young Humanitarian Awards go to three outstanding UCLA students
International development student among recipients
Posted: 5/3/2012
South African education advocate visits UCLA to share experiences, explore partnerships
It’s important for Americans to think of Africa and South Africa as places to learn and grow, says university leader.
Posted: 2/8/2012
North Korea facing acute food shortages, says expert
Mercy Corps operations director urges prompt action to ease North Korean food crisis.
Posted: 10/3/2011
Environmental Education Is Failing: New Book
Schools must revamp how they teach about the environment to prevent ecological collapse, conservationist Charles Saylan and UCLA life scientist Daniel T. Blumstein argue in "The Failure of Environmental Education (And How We Can Fix It)."
Posted: 5/16/2011
Environmental Education Is Failing: New Book
Schools must revamp how they teach about the environment to prevent ecological collapse, conservationist Charles Saylan and UCLA life scientist Daniel T. Blumstein argue in "The Failure of Environmental Education (And How We Can Fix It)."
Posted: 5/16/2011
Buddhists, Neuroscientists Come to a Meeting of the Minds
The symposium brought researchers from UCLA’s Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior together with eminent Buddhist scholars for a two-hour conversation about their distinctive yet complementary understandings of compassion, creativity, mental flexibility and attention, as well as the role mindfulness meditation may play in cultivating these qualities.
Posted: 5/10/2011
Getting to the HIV Test: It Takes a Village
If you want to improve HIV testing rates in remote rural areas, get the community involved, says UCLA's Thomas Coates, who has directed a new study examining HIV testing programs in communities in Africa and Southeast Asia.
Posted: 5/6/2011
Getting to the HIV Test: It Takes a Village
If you want to improve HIV testing rates in remote rural areas, get the community involved, says UCLA's Thomas Coates, who has directed a new study examining HIV testing programs in communities in Africa and Southeast Asia.
Posted: 5/6/2011
Buddhism and Neuroscience: a Discussion on Attention, Mental Flexibility and Compassion
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama was unable to attend this May 2, 2011, symposium as planned, due to ill health. In his stead, Geshe Thupten Jinpa, a principal English translator for His Holiness and Ph.D. in Religious Studies (Cambridge University) and Robert Thurman, Je Tsongkhapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University, joined the discussion with four UCLA neuroscientists.
Posted: 5/2/2011
UCLA Pediatrician Becomes a Voice for Children in Japan
UCLA pediatric critical care doctor Kozue Shimabukuro flew to Japan and joined a roving government medical team in the first weeks after the quake and tsunami. This week, she spoke to give a voice to the tsunami orphans still in need of help.
Posted: 4/28/2011
Lessons for the US from Fukushima
UCLA experts agree that the United States must do more to plan for worst-case scenarios when it comes to nuclear power.
Posted: 4/20/2011
UCLA Pediatrician's Email from the Disaster Area
Kozue Shimabukuro is a UCLA pediatric critical care doctor who grew up in Japan and returned to her home country to help children after the March 11 disasters. She has been working north of Tokyo, in and around Yamada. This is her latest email to her UCLA colleagues, edited for context.
Posted: 3/30/2011
UC Suspends Travel in Japan, Bruin Experts Lend Assistance
Three UCLA experts with family ties to Japan are among the Bruins who have rushed to aid Japan after that country’s devastating March 11 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis.
Posted: 3/22/2011
Bruins Join Japan Disaster Relief Efforts, Study Abroad Suspended
UCLA professors and campus groups are joining relief efforts, including a pediatrician who is part of a medical team trying to reach the devastated areas, a computer mapping expert who is assembling information to aid U.N. relief workers, and an earthquake engineer who will inspect damaged structures.
Posted: 3/18/2011
Food and Survival in Her Books and Her Life
Peek into Judith Carney’s background and you can understand her interests. "In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa's Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World," co-written with her husband, is one of two winners of the most recent Douglass prize, awarded to the best book written in English on slavery or abolition.
Posted: 3/4/2011
UCLA Hosts Peace Corps’ 50th Anniversary Celebration
Tonight, more than 1,000 attendees are expected to gather in Royce Hall to welcome a panel of former Peace Corps volunteers, including director Aaron Williams, former National Public Radio director Frank Mankiewicz and MSNBC 'Hardball' host Chris Matthews. The Daily Bruin reports.
Posted: 3/2/2011
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