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    Global health researcher and advocate Dr. Felicia Maire Knaul to speak at International Institute commencement

    A Harvard-trained health economist, Dr. Knaul has been engaged in public health research, social development and advocacy throughout her career in positions with governments, nonprofit organizations and universities.

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    A UCLA senior's quest for global justice

    International development studies major Grace Harris (UCLA 2025) reflects on a transformative UCLA experience defined by grassroots activism, rigorous research and a deep commitment to genocide prevention and justice.

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    “I think if there was going to be a ‘change-the-world major' here (at UCLA), it is international development studies. You are looking at what's going on in the world, and then asking what can we do? What can be done?” - Grace Harris (Photo: Victoria Salcedo/ UCLA.)
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Ann Kerr receives honorary doctorate from University of San Francisco

Ann Kerr, coordinator of the Visiting Fulbright Scholar Enrichment Program at UCLA, received an honorary doctorate from USF and delivered the commencement address to graduate students of its College of Arts and Sciences on May 16, 2025.

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Culture as lived practice, culture as place

Art historian Bridget Tracy Tan and the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts are redefining Southeast Asian arts and arts education through practice-based research and cultural memory.

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Aomar Boum inducted into the National Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco

Boum, Maurice Amado Professor of Sephardic Studies at UCLA and incoming interim director of the Center for Near Eastern Studies (2025–26), attended the April 2025 ceremony in Rabat, Morocco, with two UCLA colleagues.

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Institute geographers win academic honors, highlight discipline's contributions to international studies

Susanna Hecht was honored with awards from the American Association of Geographers (AAG) and the Latin American Studies Association, while colleague Shaina Potts received an AAG book award for her first monograph.

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Bruin gathers intel from doulas worldwide to understand impacts of global policy

Leila Chiddick interviewed professionals from around the world – and trained as a doula herself – to make recommendations on how international organizations can adjust their policies to meet the needs of people on the ground.

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Religious right driving democratic backsliding in Israel

Extreme religious political ideas have entered mainstream Israeli politics because the religious right has spent the last decade focused on promulgating ideas, building institutions and integrating rightist religious organizations from the settlements into the Likud Party, said Rami Hod at a Y&S Nazarian Center event in winter 2025.

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Doing what must be done: International Women of Courage share their stories

UCLA hosted the U.S. State Department's 2025 International Women of Courage on April 7, several of whom spoke about their work and life experience at a public panel event.

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April 11, 2025. Jason Cong, distinguished professor of computer science at UCLA and director of the PKU-UCLA Students & Scholars Program, has received the 2024 Charles P. “Chuck” Thacker Breakthrough in Computing Award. The honor is bestowed by the Association for Computing... Continue Reading
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Mar 19, 2025. Speaking to "InquirerPlus" about the late ethnoarchaeologist William Longacare, UCLA anthropologist Stephen Acabado said, “His findings challenged traditional archaeological assumptions and provided a more nuanced way to interpret ceramics in excavations worldwide,” showing “that pottery style and form... Continue Reading
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Nov 22, 2024. Three decades of research by Jason Kong, distinguished professor of computer science and director of the UCLA-PKU Students & Scholars Program, led to the award. Presented annually by the Electronic System Design Alliance — part of the global semiconductor... Continue Reading

Upcoming Events

9th Annual UCLA Undergraduate Colloquium in Armenian Studies16May2025

The Promise Armenian Institute

9th Annual UCLA Undergraduate Colloquium in Armenian Studies

The 9th annual UCLA Undergraduate Colloquium in Armenian Studies, in association with UCLA Undergraduate Research Week.

Default Event22May2025

Latin American Institute

"BODY & THE CITY' INTERACTIVE DISPLAY

A perspective on Los Angeles's segregation through the lens of its spectacular, scandalous, decadent feminine bodies.

Book Talk: Religious Change in China after Mao22May2025

Asia Pacific Center

Book Talk: Religious Change in China after Mao

Yanfei Sun (Zhejiang University) presents insights from a forthcoming book that synthesizes two decades of ethnographic, archival, and historical comparative...

Foreign in Two Homelands: Racism, Return Migration, and Turkish-German History22May2025

Center for European and Russian Studies

Foreign in Two Homelands: Racism, Return Migration, and Turkish-German History

Michelle Lynn Kahn, Associate Professor of Modern European History at University of Richmond, on the transnational history of Turkish migrants,...

Recent Visitors & Dignitaries

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Economic Prosperity: Women And Small Business Entrepreneurship: A Multi-Regional Project

DELEGATION 25 members Visit Date: 04/30/2025
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Finnish Higher Education Institutions

DELEGATION 25 members Visit Date: 03/17/2025
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Climate Change And Methane: A Project For Turkmenistan

DELEGATION 6 members Visit Date: 12/13/2024
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FOREIGN INSTIUTION University Of Geneva UCLA COUNTERPART Luskin School of Public Affairs
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FOREIGN INSTIUTION National Taiwan Normal University UCLA COUNTERPART Asia Pacific Center
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Agreement Type: Non-Binding MOU