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    Bruins experience Australia's health care system through new travel study program

    “What's really important is not only what I learned in Australia, but how it is seen through a U.S. lens as well," said UCLA sophomore Fiona Xie about the program.

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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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Recent IDS graduate off to a quality start

This Daily Bruin feature of Andrew Dong (UCLA 2025, international development studies) follows the story of how he created an online matcha tea business after graduation.

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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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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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Sea power and the law of the sea

Feb 3, 2026. In a review essay published in the AJIL, UCLA Burkle Center Director Kal Raustiala, writes, "The expanded access the accelerating climate crisis creates has made the Arctic a more realistic shipping zone, and hence a domain of ever-greater strategic and economic importance...The seas constitute a vast reserve from [the] regime of territorial sovereignty: a largely common space still wild, yet full of coveted and often shrinking resources." Continue Reading
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Oaxacan leaders on red alert about ICE operations

Jan 30, 2026. Speaking to La Opinión, Gaspar Rivera-Salgado (director, UCLA Center for Mexican Studies said, “[Recent] raids are not like the ones of years past. We haven't reached the levels of Mexican deportations under Obama.. but we are seeing the disproportionate and overt use of federal officers… employing heavy-handed tactics." Arrest numbers for Indigenous Zapotecs are tough to come by, but the majority CA arrestees have been Mexican. (In... Continue Reading
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Indigeneous terrace agriculture

Jan 15, 2026. In an article published in The Conversation, Stephen Acabado (director, UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies) discusses terrace agriculture in Ifugao, The Philippines and the Anti-Atlas Mountains of Morocco. These dynamic systems are continually refined through direct observation and intergenerational learning, adjusted in design and the choice of climate-suitable crops. Climate change and labor availability now threaten their viability. Continue Reading

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Water Knows No Borders3Feb2026

Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies

Water Knows No Borders

This event is part of the Center's series "Scientific and Environmental Diplomacy." Join us on February 3 for a webinar with...

Brief Rise and Fall of Late Ottoman Islamists and Their Legacy3Feb2026

Center for Near Eastern Studies

Brief Rise and Fall of Late Ottoman Islamists and Their Legacy

A virtual lecture with Andrew Hammond (Australian National University).

Sesame Street Around the World: Culture, Politics, and Transnational Organizational Partnerships4Feb2026

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Sesame Street Around the World: Culture, Politics, and Transnational Organizational Partnerships

Learning from Latin American Outreach Series

Crucibles of Power: Smolensk Under Stalinist and Nazi Rule4Feb2026

Center for European and Russian Studies

Crucibles of Power: Smolensk Under Stalinist and Nazi Rule

Join us for the UCLA European History Colloquium.

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Meeting With Delegates From Konkuk University

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