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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Kim (bottom row, far left), a core faculty member of the UCLA Center for Korean Studies, is professor and head of theater and performance studies at the UCLA School of Theater, Film & Television, where she is associate dean for academic affairs and external engagement.
About 2 million people, or more than 20% of the population living in Cambodia on January 17, 1975, or born in Democratic Kampuchea between 1975 and 1979, are estimated to have died due to Khmer Rouge policies, including by execution, displacement, forced labor and food rationing.
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.
The UCLA Armenian Music Program, with co-sponsorship of the Promise Armenian Institute, hosted a talk and concert celebrating the life and works of composer, conductor and musicologist Grikor Mirzaian Suni.
The Negative Impact of Proposed H.R. 2147 on UCLA's Campus and Community
Haiti's crisis stems from entrenched corruption, impunity and the unchecked flow of firearms, which have enabled gangs to seize control of vast portions of the country, said Haitian journalist Widlore Mérancourt.
