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    UCLA's glocal impacts

    At the signature event of International Education Week 2023, four distinguished members of UCLA spoke about how their work connects the global to the local and vice-versa.

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    Panelists and host enjoy a light moment at the "UCLA 'Glocal' Conversation: The University in an Interconnected World" at the UCLA Faculty Center during International Education Week 2023. (Photo: Todd Cheney.)
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    Newly digitized Florentine Codex reveals Aztec culture, language

    Scholars from the UCLA Latin American Institute are celebrating Getty's release of the digital version of the Florentine Codex, an unparalleled repository of 16th-century Indigenous Mexican knowledge and culture.

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    Courtesy of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, and by permission of MiBACT.

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