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Confucian Wisdom Guides Scholar Through Turbulent Times
The campus community got a rare glimpse Jan. 12 into the life of a Chinese literary scholar who embarked on a voyage of self-discovery and rose to take on a powerful role at the highest levels of government.
Posted: 1/14/2009
Studying Abroad in Vietnam a Chance for Global Understanding
"I found studying abroad such a critical, life-changing experience that it needs to be mandatory," writes UCLA Daily Bruin columnist Nam-Giao Do.
Posted: 1/14/2009
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
Developments in the Study of Buddhist Art
Art History experts gather at UCLA to offer new interpretations of Buddhist art.
Posted: 12/19/2008
Talk With the Taliban?
Two European-based anthropologists say that Afghans may be more inclined than some others to speak with enemies and to entertain views opposed to their own.
Posted: 12/10/2008
Shards
The late Roxanna Brown, who earned a UCLA doctorate in art history near the end of a creative scholarly career, found sweeping historical narratives in recovered Southeast Asian ceramics. Some of her unpublished works will be pieced together, but her vision can't be replaced, say three speakers at a UCLA symposium.
Posted: 12/8/2008
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
'Creating Places'
At the first "Asia in LA" program, architects, urban designers, and faculty members discuss the relationships between cosmopolitanism in a global city and particular locales.
Posted: 11/26/2008
Japan's Jazz Coffeeshops
Michael Molasky of the University of Minnesota discusses the surprising communities fostered by jazz coffeeshops in 20th-century Japan.
Posted: 11/20/2008
Engineers Without Borders Constructs a Better World
From Thailand to Guatemala, UCLA's EWB chapter goes the distance for philanthropy.
Posted: 11/19/2008
From China, Student Paper Looks at UCLA Brand
The UCLA Daily Bruin is publishing a series of stories and photo galleries today and Thursday by Bruin staffers on location in China, made possible under a scholarship fund. The editor also announces that the newspaper will follow UCLA research about sex workers in Thailand from that country.
Posted: 11/19/2008
Afghanistan after the Taliban: Podcast
Podcast of November 17, 2008 Central Asia Initiative Panel Presentation
Posted: 11/17/2008
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
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
South Kazakhstan Outbreak Led to Anti-HIV Programs
The Shymkent outbreak of 2006 affected more than 130 children but also energized Kazakh officials to implement programs for HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment.
Posted: 10/28/2008
UCLA Receives Gift for Indonesian Studies
The $75,000 gift from Dr. Robert Lemelson, an anthropologist who also earned his doctorate at UCLA, will support graduate students, visiting scholars, and conferences.
Posted: 10/27/2008
Vietnamese Forest Policy and the Locals
In northern Vietnam, people living around Tam Dao National Park may gain access to park land through legal title, influence, or labor, explains UCLA-trained political scientist Cari An Coe.
Posted: 10/27/2008
Opening Address: Wang Xiaodong, The WTO Director General’s Counselor for Asia
2008 US-China Business Law Conference at UCLA
Posted: 10/24/2008
Wanted: Active UN to Lead on Iraq
Veteran journalist Helena Cobban says that only the United Nations is in a position to convene nations interested in stability in Iraq, citing evidence of a shift of global power and influence away from the United States.
Posted: 10/22/2008
5th Terasaki Chair Left Science to Tell its Story
Shigeru Nakayama, a historian of science, joins UCLA as the fifth Terasaki Chair in U.S.-Japan Relations.
Posted: 10/3/2008
Japan's Post-Bubble Artists Not so 'Cute'
Adrian Favell, UCLA professor of sociology, speaks in Yokohama, Japan at the opening of The ECHO: JAPAN NEXT, a contemporary art exhibit held at ZAIM as part of the third Yokohama Triennale.
Posted: 10/3/2008
Anthropologist Rose From Outcast to Academic
Now a professor of anthropology and co-director of Chinese studies at UCLA, Yan Yunxiang has returned many times to northeastern China to conduct fieldwork in Xiajia, where he lived for seven years as an ordinary farmer.
Posted: 10/1/2008
Famed Beijing Opera Troupe Kicks Off SoCal Tour at UCLA Oct. 8
The company is named for the late Mei Lanfang, China's greatest opera star, who gained worldwide fame portraying female characters on stage and introduced the form known as Beijing (or Peking) opera to the West.
Posted: 10/1/2008
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