Global Insights
Perspectives on World Affairs at UCLA
Law Students Take Pulse on Issues of Global Justice at The Hague
After interviewing representatives of states and advocacy organizations at the annual meeting of the International Criminal Court, where the United States has sent official observers for the first time, the students will report their findings and perhaps make recommendations toward a broader U.S. engagement with the court.
Posted: 11/23/2009
Center Kicks Off Year of Events on Mexican Revolution's Centennial
A series on the 1910 revolution began Nov. 16 with a conference organized jointly by the Center for Mexican Studies and the just-opened Los Angeles branch of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.
Posted: 11/19/2009
UCLA Ranks 8th in Foreign Students, 5th in Number Studying Abroad
In a nationwide report released this week, UCLA ranked eighth among U.S. universities in the number of foreign students it hosted during the 2008-09 academic year and was fifth in the number of students it sent abroad to study in 2007-08. UCLA was the only University of California campus listed in the top 10 in either category.
Posted: 11/18/2009
UC-Wide Institute to Address Global Health Woes
Faculty and students from across UC's 10-campus system will join forces in the new University of California Global Health Institute. Thomas Coates, director of the UCLA Program in Global Health, will co-lead the institute.
Posted: 11/18/2009
Europe and America Couldn't Be More Different, Right? Not So Fast, Says a UCLA Historian
Marshalling quantitative comparative data on subjects as diverse as colon cancer deaths and the accuracy of clocks in public settings, Peter Baldwin illustrates how differences between the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe are much smaller than commonly supposed.
Posted: 11/12/2009
Wesley Clark: Can NATO Survive Afghanistan?
Clark, a senior fellow at UCLA's Burkle Center for International Relations, opened the afternoon session for a Nov. 6 conference, "1989: Assessing the Collapse of Communism Twenty Years Later." The conference was organized by the UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies.
Posted: 11/12/2009
Global Studies Thesis Award Goes to Student with Ethos of Service
Elya Filler's Global Studies thesis on the East Asian sex industry and its historical background won that interdepartmental program's top honor for 2008-09. Now she is volunteering at a school in Cambodia and thinking about how best to continue her education while helping to battle poverty.
Posted: 10/27/2009
Researchers to Use Grant to Improve Water in Tanzania
Professors and students hope to create portable device that could test for contaminants immediately, reports The Daily Bruin.
Posted: 10/22/2009
UCLA's Ambassador of International Admissions
In six decades at UCLA Gloria Nathanson, associate director of Undergraduate Admissions and Relations with Schools, has become an authority on appraising the credentials of students across continents and cultures.
Posted: 10/8/2009
She Travels Sahara to Record History of Caravan Trade
Ghislaine Lydon, the new chair of the African Studies interdepartmental program, will travel to Mauritania in December to collaborate on an article and a documentary film about the last women caravanners in the western Sahara Desert.
Posted: 10/5/2009
Exhibit Serves Up History of Tea
Current installation at the Fowler Museum highlights fresh flavors of an ancient brew, reports The Daily Bruin.
Posted: 9/22/2009
Through Food, Teachers Take Lessons in World Cultures at UCLA
Celebrating 30 years of teacher training programs on campus, the UCLA International Institute this summer dedicated a 10-day workshop to the theme of food in world history and world cultures. Watch a video about the program.
Posted: 9/16/2009
10 Questions for Nile Green
In his 2009 book, "Islam and the Army in Colonial India: Sepoy Religion in the Service of Empire," Professor Green follows the development of a "barracks Islam" that was practiced by Indian soldiers and their faqir holy men in 19th- and early 20th-century Hyderabad, a princely state then under de facto British rule.
Posted: 9/2/2009
Grad Students Hone Chinese Translation Skills in Shanghai
Fudan Scholarly Translation Workshop in Shanghai was sponsored by the UCLA Confucius Institute and was designed to teach the general principles of translation and to help students with their graduate research.
Posted: 8/28/2009
International Institute Cooks Up Recipe for Teacher Success
This year's International Institute summer training program for teachers, a 10-day workshop, traced the evolution of regional and cross-regional food cultures from antiquity to the present day in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East.
Posted: 8/27/2009
UCLA Scholar to Head New Korean Buddhist Research Institute
Robert Buswell, who once dropped out of college to become a monk in Asia, directs the UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies.
Posted: 8/26/2009
Saudi Arabia's Science Agency to Fund UCLA Research in Nanoelectronics, Clean Energy
A cooperative agreement and contract were signed recently, cementing a new relationship between Saudi Arabia's national science agency and national laboratories and UCLA Engineering.
Posted: 8/24/2009
Former Buddhist Nun Helps Stressed-Out Find Inner Peace
Diana Winston rarely talks about the spiritual evolution that brought her here, to a large university where researchers are discovering that the practice of mindfulness meditation has many physical and psychological benefits, including slowing the progression of HIV in patients suffering from stress and helping ADHD teens focus.
Posted: 8/21/2009
Russian Spoken Here: Intensive Language Courses Hit the Streets
More than 400 students took advantage of L.A.'s linguistic diversity this summer by signing up for Language Intensives in L.A., organized by the Center for World Languages and Summer Sessions.
Posted: 8/11/2009
Trial by Fire in the Lassa Ward
Dr. Ross Donaldson interrupted med school at UCLA to travel to Sierra Leone and treat victims of one of the world's deadliest diseases, the Lassa virus. Thus began an adventure that he turned into a book.
Posted: 8/10/2009
VOA, NPR Report: UCLA Course Teaches High School Students Language of Their Parents, Grandparents
In innovative summer courses on campus, speakers of less commonly taught languages such as Hindi, Persian and Russian learn advanced skills and keep their heritages alive.
Posted: 8/4/2009
Droughts of Past Yield Lessons for a Warming World
Already an expert on how global warming and drought affect ecosystems, Geography Professor Glen MacDonald is now delving more deeply into how these forces will affect people, and what local and regional leaders can do.
Posted: 7/23/2009
Local Teachers to Eat Up International Studies at UCLA
Rice, chicken, tea. Sounds like a meal, but in a summer class about international food, these staples are a jumping-off point for understanding rice's role in globalization, how rumors about chicken quality represent distrust of the global market and how a British obsession with Chinese tea led to slave raids in the Philippines.
Posted: 7/10/2009
New Answers to Big Questions in Chinese History
For 30 years Lothar von Falkenhausen has observed changes in China over two very different time scales, one of them measured in millennia.
Posted: 6/30/2009
Research Tool for Latin Americanists Expands in Region by Giving Back
'HAPI: the Database of Latin American Journal Articles' has increased its subscriber base in that region by giving its online library product away in some countries and charging less for it in others. HAPI had flexibility to make the change, which shortens paths to knowledge for scholars, because of its good financial health.
Posted: 6/19/2009
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