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Three UCLA faculty members awarded 2018 Guggenheim Fellowships
Nile Green, Eleanor Kaufman and Stefania Tutino were among the 173 scholars, artists and scientists chosen for the honor.
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UCLA, KCET team up for environmental storytelling and public media collaboration
The yearlong partnership provides graduate students with opportunities to create new narratives to engage audiences with research.
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Three UCLA faculty members awarded 2017 Guggenheim Fellowships
Hiroshi Motomura, Michelle Huneven and Aydogan Ozcan were selected for the distinguished prizes that go to scholars, artists and scientists in the United States and Canada.
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UCLA receives $5 million from Mellon Foundation
Funds will support the Excellence in Pedagogy and Innovative Classrooms project, or EPIC, which will examine students’ changing learning styles and train faculty and graduate students in effective teaching methods.
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UCLA ranked No. 8 in the world by U.S. News and World Report
UCLA is the world’s No. 8 overall and the No. 2 U.S. public institution in the 2016 U.S. News and World Report Best Global Universities rankings.
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Gift from top international businessman will propel Japanese studies at UCLA
A $2.5 million gift from Tadashi Yanai will help transform UCLA’s Department of Asian Languages and Cultures into one of the world’s leading centers for the study of Japanese literature and culture.
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'CSI: Middle Ages': True-crime mystery by UCLA medievalist illuminates 15th-century Paris
Eric Jager's newest nonfiction thriller, "Blood Royal," looks at the brutal murder of King Charles VI's brother, the Duke of Orleans, in Paris in the midst of the Hundred Years' War.
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Enlightenment now 5 pounds heavier: Scholars produce massive Buddhist dictionary
The comprehensive English-language tome, compiled by UCLA's Robert E. Buswell Jr. and a colleague, is the first to cover terms from all the religion's canonical languages and traditions.
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Pride, prejudice and strategic thinking: Jane Austen wrote the book on game theory
Some 150 years before game theory was used by superpowers during the Cold War, Austen mapped its strategies in all six of her novels, UCLA's Michael Suk-Young Chwe argues.