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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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    From upper-left, clockwise: Bruins Aghigh Banitaba, Kailani Kainoa-Rivas, Audrey Ohwobete, Natalie Carrillo Andrade and Judson Aiken.
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    IDS major travels to Asia to study abroad

    “Nothing was as different [from my previous travels] as going to Japan," said international development studies major Max Odle of his study abroad program at International Christian University in Tokyo.

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Institute's development director sees new era of university funding

"We are in the middle of a generational shift in how public education operates in this country and I think philanthropy is going to play a bigger role. Donors will have to get involved a little earlier and stay a little bit longer,” said Howie Fitzgerald.

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New data upends myths about Mexican migrant labor

Temporary Mexican labor migration to the U.S. is largely legal today due to the rapid expansion of H2-A and H2-B visas, reversing a longstanding trend of unauthorized migrant flows.

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Latin American Studies and TFT alumnae awarded prestigious MacArthur Fellowships

With graduates Gala Porras-Kim and Garrett Bradley being honored, Bruins have accounted for 1 in 10 ‘genius grant' recipients over the past three years.

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UCLA alumnus improves students' educational skills for a globalized world

Yondonjamts Jigjidsuren (UCLA 2022) spent the past three years as a student mentor and teacher, first in Boyle Heights, then in Cambodia as a Peace Corps volunteer. He worked with the local community in his Cambodian town to create a computer lab for students, leaving a lasting legacy.

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Support for study of South Asian religions

A $1.5 million pledge to UCLA from Jasvant and Meera Modi will support the establishment of the Bhagawan Abhinandan Endowed Chair for Jain Studies and Religions of South Asia.

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New leaders join the International Institute

UCLA faculty take on new roles in the leadership of the International Institute, its academic programs and its centers and programs.

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Ippy Kalofonos: Supporting veterans with voices and visions

Jul 25, 2025. Ippolytos “Ippy” A. Kalofonos, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., chair of the Institute's global health minor and assistant professor in residence at the UCLA Semel Institute, launched a Veteran's Voices and Visions chapter at the Los Angeles VA. A Psychiatry Online article describes how the program, on which Kalofonos published a study, has benefited participants. Continue Reading
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Stephen Acabado on tequila distillation theories

July 21, 2025. UCLA anthropologist Stephen Acabado, director of the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies, writes in The Conversation that the Manila-Acapulco galleon trade route (1565-1815) "may help explain how distilled agave spirits such as tequila came into being. While tequila is unmistakably a Mexican creation, the techniques used to produce it may owe something to Filipino sailors…" Continue Reading

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Past-Proofing the Future: Theorizing the Erasure of Djulfa, Twenty Years On

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Meeting With Delegates From Konkuk University

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