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First Notehelfer Prize Awarded
The Notehelfer Prize seeks to recognize the best unpublished paper written by a UCLA graduate student in the field of Japan studies. Emi Foulk, second year graduate student in the history department, was awarded the first prize.
Posted: 1/26/2011
TUSA 2011 Ambassador Summer Scholarship Program
Scholarship program for undergrads and grads to study Mandarin in July and August 2011
Posted: 1/14/2011
Korean Culture Lessons Fill Gap for Teachers
Since the teacher education program on Korea got its start in 2004, the UCLA Center for Korean Studies has supported KAFE's model of community engagement, sending renowned faculty members to lead training sessions and helping with programming. By way of a week-long, annual summer institute and other programs, CKS has reached out to roughly 2,000 school administrators and teachers from around the United States in recent years.
Posted: 1/11/2011
China Sends Senior Officials in Higher Ed to UCLA for Training
A delegation of vice presidents and high-ranking officials from universities in China came to UCLA this week to learn how to build and run a top university. Bruins shared their expertise on everything from managing residence halls to fundraising and recruiting diverse faculty.
Posted: 12/2/2010
Writing Travel at Asia's Crossroads
Departing from texts in Chinese, Persian, Urdu and other languages, scholars at an international conference, "The Roads to Oxiana," look at Central Asia in the ages of camel caravans and horsemen and of motor cars and airplanes. Audio podcasts of the conference presentations are now available.
Posted: 11/15/2010
Graduate Fellowship, Scholars Honor Memory of Hans H. Baerwald
As the Center inaugurates the Hans H. Baerwald Graduate Fellowship in Japanese Studies, a veteran journalist and former UCLA Terasaki Chair in U.S.-Japan relations delivers a keynote on tensions in the alliance between the countries.
Posted: 11/10/2010
UCLA Officials to Meet with Prospective Students in Tokyo
UCLA undergraduate admissions officers will be in Tokyo on Nov. 4 as part of a student recruitment tour in Asia that also includes stops in Osaka, Seoul, Hong Kong and Singapore. The session will help explain the UCLA admissions process to prospective students and their parents.
Posted: 10/27/2010
UCLA Officials to Meet with Prospective Students in Osaka, Japan
UCLA undergraduate admissions officers will be in Osaka, Japan, on Nov. 1 and 2 as part of a student recruitment tour in Asia that also includes stops in Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Posted: 10/26/2010
Teaching to Your Taste Buds
This month, a Fowler museum curator is arranging a new kind of exhibit: specially ordered tasting menus at Southeast Asian island-specific restaurants. In November, the Fowler offers a Korean cooking class following a museum exhibition tour.
Posted: 10/22/2010
US-Japan Relations Chair Studies Impact of Digital Media
Stefan Tanaka, a professor of history at UC San Diego, joins UCLA this year as the seventh Terasaki Chair in U.S.-Japan Relations.
Posted: 10/21/2010
10 Questions: Miriam Robbins Dexter on the Power of Female Display
Miriam Robbins Dexter, a lecturer in the Department of Women's Studies and expert on ancient heroines and goddesses, and a co-author have completed a cross-cultural study of stories and artifacts in which women lift their skirts and expose their genitals, a performance that drives away enemies and returns joy and fertility to the land.
Posted: 10/6/2010
Terasaki Postdoc Investigates Breakdown of Democracy
Hiroyuki Yamamoto joins UCLA this academic year as the third Terasaki Postdoctoral Fellow.
Posted: 9/24/2010
UCLA, Japanese Firm to Collaborate on Nanotech Imaging Tools
The California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA has announced plans to collaborate with Hamamatsu Photonics to apply nanoscience and nanotechnology to projects having global importance in health, medicine, energy and the environment.
Posted: 9/10/2010
Shanghai Visit Underscores Global Presence of UCLA
Approximately 20 faculty, administrators and staff from UCLA traveled to Shanghai to create new alliances and reinforce ties within the Bruin community in China with a weeklong series of events in one of the most dynamic cities in Asia.
Posted: 8/31/2010
Area Studies, Language Programs Win Almost $11 Million from Education Department
Over the coming four years, the UCLA International Institute's renowned programs on East Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Near East, Southeast Asia and heritage language education anticipate federal support of $6.7 million for language instruction, public programming, outreach to local schools, and more. Five centers will distribute nearly $4.3 million in Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowships to UCLA undergraduate and graduate students.
Posted: 8/9/2010
Local Efforts Key to Nuclear Disarmament
Commemorating the atomic bombings on Japan in 1945 and joining in the call for a world without nuclear weapons were, on Wednesday in Haines Hall, a local grandmother who survived the Hiroshima attack, a Japanese-born artist, a UCLA anthropologist and, by Internet link, local officials from Hiroshima and Manchester, UK, who lead international anti-nuclear organizations.
Posted: 8/6/2010
Mandarin Teachers Gain Training at UCLA
Instructors travel from China to L.A. campus to learn U.S. classroom culture, reports UCLA's student newspaper The Daily Bruin.
Posted: 8/3/2010
UCLA to Participate in Global Symposium on Bombing of Hiroshima
To take place on campus as well as on the Internet, an hourlong event on Wednesday, August 4, will mark the 65th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and connect UCLA with participants in Japan, Germany, Russia and the United Kingdom.
Posted: 8/3/2010
UCLA Team Traveling to Shanghai to Expand Ties
The trip is part of a university-wide effort to expand UCLA's relationship with China on several levels, including study programs and alumni support.
Posted: 7/14/2010
2 in East Asian Studies Win Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowships
Grace Yoo and Wendy Zheng will finish interdisciplinary UCLA bachelor's and master's degrees under the fellowships, which provide additional support for graduate school and domestic and overseas internships with the State Department.
Posted: 7/12/2010
Closing Remarks at China and the World Conference by Yan Yunxiang and Gen. Wesley Clark (Ret.)
Yan Yunxiang is co-director of the Center for Chinese Studies and Gen. Wesley K. Clark (ret.) is a senior fellow with the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations.
Posted: 6/25/2010
A Conversation with John Podesta on China
Keynote: John Podesta, Center for American Progress, interviewed by Terry McCarthy, CBS News
Posted: 6/24/2010
China's Role in Regional and Global Security Challenges
Podcast of the first panel at the China in the World 2010 conference.
Posted: 6/24/2010
What Could End Cooperation with China?
Opening Remarks: Stephen Krasner, Stanford University
Posted: 6/24/2010
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