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Centralized Health Care More Cost-Effective, Offers Better Access to Preventive Services
A UCLA School of Public Health comparison of Mexico's federal and state health care–delivery systems provides important insights for other nations.
Posted: 9/14/2010
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
Unique Archive of Language Materials Extends Scope
The UCLA Language Materials Project, a database for teachers of less-studied languages, has won $500,000 from the Education Department to add digital instructional materials to its archive. But what an archive. With high-quality images of ephemera and hard-to-find foreign stuff, the website is part resource guide and part travel scrapbook for the global village.
Posted: 9/7/2010
Countries Far North Will Thrive on Global Warming
As global pressures mount, the New North is well-positioned to prosper economically in the 21st century, a UCLA author says.
Posted: 9/3/2010
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
Virus Related to Smallpox Rising Sharply in Africa
UCLA researchers find that monkeypox has increased 20-fold in Democractic Republic of Congo since 1980.
Posted: 8/31/2010
Brazilian Film Expert Randal Johnson Leads International Studies During Search
The interim vice provost of international studies, Johnson says that he and the International Institute won't "sit still" in 2010-11. His job for the year includes travel to build relationships with institutions abroad and collaboration with units across campus on internationalizing higher education.
Posted: 8/30/2010
Climate Change Is Here to Stay, for Centuries
Carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere has locked the world into at least a 3.6-degree Fahrenheit global temperature increase that will last for millennia, according to a new report released by the National Research Council. Marilyn Raphael, a UCLA geography profesor and member of the report committee, urges action and not despair.
Posted: 8/24/2010
Historian Terraciano Gears Up for Year as Latin American Institute Director
The "lean, efficient" LAI covers the waterfront of Latin American issues in its programming, and focuses on broad areas of interdisciplinary research. History Professor and interim LAI Director Kevin Terraciano says his own interest in Mesoamerican languages and cultures fits right in.
Posted: 8/23/2010
Capitalism Will Help Us Adapt to Climate Change, Economist Says
Matthew E. Kahn, an environmental economist, takes a pessimistic view of climate change--that it's too late to avoid rising sea levels and hotter summers--but believes cities can cope with the changes.
Posted: 8/17/2010
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
UCLA Author's Latest Novel: a Mother, a Nanny and Hard Choices
"My Hollywood," is a story of two women--Claire, a composer and new mother, and Lola, a nanny with five children back home in the Philippines--whose lives become intimately entwined through Claire's son, William.
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
UC Faculty, Students Head to Haiti to Extend Role in Recovery
Twenty-one representatives of the student-founded UC Haiti Initiative will travel to the island nation for a 10-day fact-finding visit. The group, which includes 13 students, will visit Port-au-Prince, Jacmel, Mirebalais and Leogane, the epicenter of the 7.0 temblor that struck on Jan. 12, in search of specific recovery projects that can be sustained by the people themselves.
Posted: 8/4/2010
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
Heat Waves: Get Used to Them
Ann Carlson is professor of law and faculty director of the Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment at the UCLA School of Law. Her op-ed orginially appeared on the joint UCLA and UC Berkeley law schools' environmental law blog, Legal Planet, on Friday, July 16, 2010.
Posted: 7/22/2010
Local US Languages and How to Teach Them
Schools and colleges don't always ask who their students are when deciding which languages to teach and how to design curricula. Seeking to remedy that, UCLA's National Heritage Language Resource Center hosts a week-long training workshop for language instructors and K-12 administrators from across the country.
Posted: 7/22/2010
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
Young Spanish Politicians Examine Immigration on US Tour
As part of the State Department's "Young Political Leaders" project, five Spanish and Andorran officials share perspectives with UCLA Professor of Law Hiroshi Motomura, an expert on immigration and citizenship in the United States. Spain has seen an immigration boom in the last decade.
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
David Gere: Enlisting Art to End AIDS
Since a trip the World Arts & Cultures professor made to India in 2004, "Make Art/Stop AIDS" has grown into a project of international stature, with a worldwide network of artists intervening in the AIDS epidemic.
Posted: 7/12/2010
His Goal: $100 for Every Child Born in the World
Professor Bhagwan Chowdhry has an idea that could change the world. The bank accounts he proposes would provide an incentive to register births and a way to save money for children. In the wake of a natural disaster or emergency, governments and charitable and relief organizations could transfer money electronically to those in need in the most efficient way possible.
Posted: 7/1/2010
Making the World a Better Place, this Summer in Senegal
After spending their first four weeks studying in Dakar, 19 students will go to eco-villages in the Senegal River Valley to explore community development projects in public health, women's micro-financing, solar electricity and organic gardening.
Posted: 7/1/2010
'Everyday Selves' Are Focus of the 2nd Indonesian Studies Conference
The second annual conference of the UCLA Indonesian Studies Program draws scholars together to think about "Indonesian Subjectivities."
Posted: 6/30/2010
Richard Turco on the Nuttiness of Climate Engineering
Research by the UCLA atmospheric chemist considers whether tinkering with the stratosphere to slow down global warming is feasible, let alone advisable.
Posted: 6/29/2010
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