Research

• Explore Transplant
  School of Medicine
  Guided by Amy Waterman, PhD, Explore Transplant is a consortium of the leading experts in transplant and health literacy, who have come together to ensure that transplant patients and living donors can make informed treatment choices. One of Explore Transplant's partners also helps kidney patients in Canada.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Amy Waterman
  (Updated: Feb 08 2023)

• The Haredi Research Group
  College of Letters and Science: Humanities
  The Haredi Research Group took rise in the spring of 2021 in response to two related developments in 2020 within the Haredi community, initially in the United States. The group's research to date has been conducted in three pods – History-Culture, Qualitative Social Science, and Quantitative Sociology
  Project Contact:

  Project website			David Myers
  (Updated: Feb 27 2023)

• Diviner Lunar Radiometer
  College of Letters and Science: Physical Sciences
  The Diviner Lunar Radiometer is one of seven instruments aboard NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft. Diviner’s measurements are also used to map compositional variations, derive subsurface temperatures, assess the stability of potential polar ice deposits, and infer landing hazards such as roughness and rock abundance.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			David Paige
  (Updated: Mar 08 2023)

• Cultural Psychiatry: Integrating Ethnography and Neuroscience in Global Mental Health Research
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  The FPR-McGill team of researchers is working to develop innovative mixed-method research methodologies involving ethnography, neuroimaging and social psychology, to explore the complex interactions between social, psychological and neurobiological processes that mediate somatization, dissociation and recovery from PTSD and other trauma-related conditions.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Douglas W. Hollan
  (Updated: Mar 10 2023)

• Gemini Planet Imager (GPI)
  College of Letters and Science: Physical Sciences
  The GPI project is a collaboration involving the American Museum of Natural History, the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, JPL, the Univ. of Montreal, the Institut National d’Optique, UCB, UCSC/UCO and UCLA. This instrument is designed for direct imaging and low-resolution spectroscopy of young planets around nearby stars using high-contrast AO.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			James Larkin
  (Updated: Apr 06 2023)

• Race and Deaths in Custody
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  In building an archive of deaths in custody, the project aims to develop a critical race and feminist analysis to sustain political anti-violence projects. This website, intended for activists, scholars, teachers and students, promotes a critical race analysis that informs, as it highlights, resistance.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Sherene Razack
  (Updated: Apr 25 2023)

• Transplant Research and Education Center (TREC)
  School of Medicine
  The UCLA TREC examines how to expand access to transplant, reduce racial disparities, ensure informed decision-making, promote paired donation, and increase living donation rates. TREC focuses on translating the findings from effective clinical trials into everyday practice through collaboration with healthcare providers, national transplant leaders, and policymakers.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Amy Waterman
  (Updated: Sep 05 2023)

• IRIS Instrument
  College of Letters and Science: Physical Sciences
  IRIS is a first generation near-infrared instrument being designed to sample the diffraction limit of the Thirty Meter Telescope. It will be the highest angular resolution near-infrared instrument in the world. IRIS is a multi-institutional collaboration from USA, Canada, and Japan.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			James Larkin
  (Updated: Sep 05 2023)

• Gefyra (Bridge): UCLA-SFU’s Pilot Program
  College of Letters and Science: Humanities
  Gefyra is a three-year pilot program involving the UCLA SNF Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture and the SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University. The primary aim of this program is to bridge the geographical gap between the Greek academic community and the West Coast.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Sharon Gerstel
  (Updated: Dec 10 2024)

• Canadian Studies Program
  International Institute

  The program's ambition is to train a new breed of policy-makers knowledgeable about Canadian society and well-versed in Canada-U.S. relations and affairs. With their Canadian counterparts, these young professionals will make wise and thoughtful decisions for the sustainable and long-term development and well-being of the North American community.

  
  

  Project website

  (Updated: Apr 18 2025)

Education/Training

• Race and Deaths in Custody
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  In building an archive of deaths in custody, the project aims to develop a critical race and feminist analysis to sustain political anti-violence projects. This website, intended for activists, scholars, teachers and students, promotes a critical race analysis that informs, as it highlights, resistance.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Sherene Razack

• Transplant Research and Education Center (TREC)
  School of Medicine
  The UCLA TREC examines how to expand access to transplant, reduce racial disparities, ensure informed decision-making, promote paired donation, and increase living donation rates. TREC focuses on translating the findings from effective clinical trials into everyday practice through collaboration with healthcare providers, national transplant leaders, and policymakers.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Amy Waterman

• Gefyra (Bridge): UCLA-SFU’s Pilot Program
  College of Letters and Science: Humanities
  Gefyra is a three-year pilot program involving the UCLA SNF Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture and the SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University. The primary aim of this program is to bridge the geographical gap between the Greek academic community and the West Coast.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Sharon Gerstel

• Canadian Studies Program
  International Institute

  The program's ambition is to train a new breed of policy-makers knowledgeable about Canadian society and well-versed in Canada-U.S. relations and affairs. With their Canadian counterparts, these young professionals will make wise and thoughtful decisions for the sustainable and long-term development and well-being of the North American community.

  
  

  Project website

Service

• Explore Transplant
  School of Medicine
  Guided by Amy Waterman, PhD, Explore Transplant is a consortium of the leading experts in transplant and health literacy, who have come together to ensure that transplant patients and living donors can make informed treatment choices. One of Explore Transplant's partners also helps kidney patients in Canada.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Amy Waterman

• Race and Deaths in Custody
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  In building an archive of deaths in custody, the project aims to develop a critical race and feminist analysis to sustain political anti-violence projects. This website, intended for activists, scholars, teachers and students, promotes a critical race analysis that informs, as it highlights, resistance.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Sherene Razack

College of Letters and Science: Humanities

• The Haredi Research Group
  Research|
  The Haredi Research Group took rise in the spring of 2021 in response to two related developments in 2020 within the Haredi community, initially in the United States. The group's research to date has been conducted in three pods – History-Culture, Qualitative Social Science, and Quantitative Sociology
  Project Contact:

  Project website			David Myers
  (Updated: Feb 27 2023)

• Gefyra (Bridge): UCLA-SFU’s Pilot Program
  Research| Education|
  Gefyra is a three-year pilot program involving the UCLA SNF Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture and the SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University. The primary aim of this program is to bridge the geographical gap between the Greek academic community and the West Coast.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Sharon Gerstel
  (Updated: Dec 10 2024)

School of Medicine

• Explore Transplant
  Research| Service|
  Guided by Amy Waterman, PhD, Explore Transplant is a consortium of the leading experts in transplant and health literacy, who have come together to ensure that transplant patients and living donors can make informed treatment choices. One of Explore Transplant's partners also helps kidney patients in Canada.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Amy Waterman
  (Updated: Feb 08 2023)

• Transplant Research and Education Center (TREC)
  Research| Education|
  The UCLA TREC examines how to expand access to transplant, reduce racial disparities, ensure informed decision-making, promote paired donation, and increase living donation rates. TREC focuses on translating the findings from effective clinical trials into everyday practice through collaboration with healthcare providers, national transplant leaders, and policymakers.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Amy Waterman
  (Updated: Sep 05 2023)

International Institute

• Canadian Studies Program
  Research, Education

  The program's ambition is to train a new breed of policy-makers knowledgeable about Canadian society and well-versed in Canada-U.S. relations and affairs. With their Canadian counterparts, these young professionals will make wise and thoughtful decisions for the sustainable and long-term development and well-being of the North American community.

  
  

  Project website

  (Updated: Apr 18 2025)

College of Letters and Science: Physical Sciences

• Diviner Lunar Radiometer
  Research|
  The Diviner Lunar Radiometer is one of seven instruments aboard NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft. Diviner’s measurements are also used to map compositional variations, derive subsurface temperatures, assess the stability of potential polar ice deposits, and infer landing hazards such as roughness and rock abundance.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			David Paige
  (Updated: Mar 08 2023)

• Gemini Planet Imager (GPI)
  Research|
  The GPI project is a collaboration involving the American Museum of Natural History, the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, JPL, the Univ. of Montreal, the Institut National d’Optique, UCB, UCSC/UCO and UCLA. This instrument is designed for direct imaging and low-resolution spectroscopy of young planets around nearby stars using high-contrast AO.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			James Larkin
  (Updated: Apr 06 2023)

• IRIS Instrument
  Research|
  IRIS is a first generation near-infrared instrument being designed to sample the diffraction limit of the Thirty Meter Telescope. It will be the highest angular resolution near-infrared instrument in the world. IRIS is a multi-institutional collaboration from USA, Canada, and Japan.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			James Larkin
  (Updated: Sep 05 2023)

College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences

• Cultural Psychiatry: Integrating Ethnography and Neuroscience in Global Mental Health Research
  Research
  The FPR-McGill team of researchers is working to develop innovative mixed-method research methodologies involving ethnography, neuroimaging and social psychology, to explore the complex interactions between social, psychological and neurobiological processes that mediate somatization, dissociation and recovery from PTSD and other trauma-related conditions.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Douglas W. Hollan
  (Updated: Mar 10 2023)

• Race and Deaths in Custody
  Research, Education, Service
  In building an archive of deaths in custody, the project aims to develop a critical race and feminist analysis to sustain political anti-violence projects. This website, intended for activists, scholars, teachers and students, promotes a critical race analysis that informs, as it highlights, resistance.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Sherene Razack
  (Updated: Apr 25 2023)

UCLA International Education Office

• McGill University
  EducationAbroadProgram
  Experience Canada's best city for students, where Old World meets innovation. Venture on cobblestone streets as skyscrapers serve as the backdrop of Montreal, a city buzzing with the energy of diverse cultures.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Danilo Bonilla
  (Updated: May 11 2023)

• University of British Columbia
  EducationAbroadProgram
  Nestled in cedar, pine, and spruce trees, Vancouver encourages an exciting journey. UBC offers a diverse range of courses to complement a UC education. Students are encouraged to use the world-leading laboratories for physics, as well as the center for interactive research in sustainability, and a center for plant research.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Danilo Bonilla
  (Updated: May 12 2023)