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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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    From left: UCLA's Miguel García-Garibay, Athena Jackson and David Kim. (Photo: Reed Hutchinson.)
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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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    Bunche Hall, home of the UCLA International Institute. (Photo: Kaya Mentesoglu/ UCLA.)
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International Education Week at UCLA offers an appealing mix of events and activities

The UCLA campus celebrated International Education Week 2025 (November 17–21) with a wide array of events and activities organized by units throughout campus, including a philanthropic organization.

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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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Scholars Examine the Provenance of Arabic-Script Manuscripts at UCLA

On November 17, 2025, the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies and Professor Luke Yarbrough (UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures) co-organized a one-day workshop and a public symposium on the provenance of Arabic-script manuscripts housed at UCLA Library.

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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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Digital Florentine Codex wins Bronze Anthem Award

Nov 18, 2025. The Digital Florentine Codex, or DFC, an annotated digital edition of the 16th-century encyclopedia on Mexica-Aztec culture, has won a 2025 Bronze Anthem Award. The team that created the DFC was comprised of many scholars and experts who earned a Ph.D. or M.A. degree at UCLA, including historian Kevin Terraciano, former Latin American Institute director, and art historian Kim Richter, Getty Research Institute principal lead. Continue Reading
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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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Whose Dunhuang, Whose Homer?: Perspectives from Media Critics15Jan2026

Center for Chinese Studies

Whose Dunhuang, Whose Homer?: Perspectives from Media Critics

Talk by Yanxiao He, Post-doc Research Fellow at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

Iran: Is the Islamic Republic on the Verge of Collapse, and if so, What Next?15Jan2026

Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies

Iran: Is the Islamic Republic on the Verge of Collapse, and if so, What Next?

Join us on January 15 for an urgent webinar on the growing protests in Iran against the current regime.

L2 Pragmatics Symposium15Jan2026

Center for Southeast Asian Studies

L2 Pragmatics Symposium

L2 Pragmatic Symposium with Emma Betz (University of Waterloo)

"Our Stories" - Illustrated Reflections on Cantonese Language and Culture15Jan2026

Asia Pacific Center

"Our Stories" - Illustrated Reflections on Cantonese Language and Culture

Join us for the Opening Night of "Our Stories: Illustrated Reflections on Cantonese Language & Culture" on January 15 from...

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Meeting With Delegates From Konkuk University

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