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    Chinese diasporas in Southeast Asia have endured for centuries

    When the end of monsoon season first left unaccompanied Chinese merchants in Southeast Asian ports for months at a time, they formed local diaspora communities in a process that has spanned at least 18 centuries.

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    Bruins experience Australia's health care system through new travel study program

    “What's really important is not only what I learned in Australia, but how it is seen through a U.S. lens as well," said UCLA sophomore Fiona Xie about the program.

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Going global: UCLA a top producer of student Fulbright winners

A dozen Bruins have been selected to teach and conduct research across Asia, Africa, Europe and North America in 2025–26.

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Recent IDS graduate off to a quality start

This Daily Bruin feature of Andrew Dong (UCLA 2025, international development studies) follows the story of how he created an online matcha tea business after graduation.

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Awards empower members of UCLA to expand university's global reach

The UCLA Global Advisors Council recently awarded 26 inaugural grants — 16 Global Education Awards and 10 Global Research Awards — to individuals across campus.

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How UCLA leaders are championing global education and research

The 2025 "'Glocal' Conversation'" at International Education Week addressed how internationalization is essential to the missions of the Division of Physical Sciences, UCLA Library and UNEX, and the ways in which these units are advancing global education and research in the face of serious challenges.

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Where Art Meets Engineering: UCLA Samueli Premieres Film on Taiwan's Role in the Global Chip Race

In collaboration with the Asia Pacific Center, the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering co-hosted a November 6, 2025 screening of “A Chip Odyssey," Taiwan's first feature-length documentary chronicling how the island of 23 million people became the world's indispensable hub for advanced semiconductor manufacturing.

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Bruins Abroad

Students with diverse majors integrate international experience into their UCLA educations via study abroad, travel study and global internship programs offered by UCLA Study Abroad.

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Kathryn Paul is advancing UCLA's ‘glocal' vision for the future

Paul is part of the senior leadership team that examines potential international projects for UCLA.

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Despite aggressive enforcement policies, immigrants have a sense of belonging

Feb 4, 2026. At a SciLine Media Briefing, Cecilia Menjívar (sociology professor & director, Center for the Study of International Immigration) said of the impact of current immigration rhetoric, “Different members of families are affected in different ways, but… it does not really decrease much their sense of belonging, especially for mixed status families… It does have an affect on safety, [as] people are not inclined to leave their homes.” Continue Reading
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Sea power and the law of the sea

Feb 3, 2026. In a review essay published in the AJIL, UCLA Burkle Center Director Kal Raustiala, writes, "The expanded access the accelerating climate crisis creates has made the Arctic a more realistic shipping zone, and hence a domain of ever-greater strategic and economic importance...The seas constitute a vast reserve from [the] regime of territorial sovereignty: a largely common space still wild, yet full of coveted and often shrinking resources." Continue Reading
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Oaxacan leaders on red alert about ICE operations

Jan 30, 2026. Speaking to La Opinión, Gaspar Rivera-Salgado (director, UCLA Center for Mexican Studies said, “[Recent] raids are not like the ones of years past. We haven't reached the levels of Mexican deportations under Obama.. but we are seeing the disproportionate and overt use of federal officers… employing heavy-handed tactics." Arrest numbers for Indigenous Zapotecs are tough to come by, but the majority CA arrestees have been Mexican. (In... Continue Reading

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The Homosexual and the Oligarch: Perverse Figurations and Social Reproduction13Feb2026

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The Homosexual and the Oligarch: Perverse Figurations and Social Reproduction

Hybrid book talk by Tamar R. Shirinian.

UCLA Learn Through Play Cantonese Opera Workshop13Feb2026

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UCLA Learn Through Play Cantonese Opera Workshop

Dr. Esther Tang (San Francisco Environment Department) will discuss the dissemination and celebration of Cantonese Opera in the San Francisco...

Passion / Starry Is the Night14Feb2026

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Passion / Starry Is the Night

Introduction by Archive Research and Study Center Officer Maya Montañez Smukler. Q&A with Michael Berry, director of UCLA Center for...

The Mayor of Inebolu15Feb2026

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The Mayor of Inebolu

Book talk by Alice Ketabgian and Dr. Tamara Ketabgian. Organized by the Ararat-Eskijian Museum and Research Center and co-sponsored by...

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Meeting With Delegates From Konkuk University

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Meeting With Delegates From Uclouvain

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