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The animated short was conceived and brought to fruition by Michael Emmerich, director of the Yanai Initiative.

The award from the UCLA Terasaki Center honors Hirano Inouye, a Japanese American philanthropist, community organizer and champion of social causes.

The UCLA-presented series will include stops in Chicago, L.A., New York, Tokyo and Washington, D.C.

The awardees will study in Brazil, Chile, England, India, Japan, Mexico, Nigeria, South Korea, Sweden, Taiwan, Trinidad and Tobago, and Tunisia.

UCLA’s newest honorees are Miguel García-Garibay, Leonid Kruglyak, Gary Segura and Min Zhou.

Back after COVID, the unique partnership has fostered educational, research and cultural opportunities on both sides of the Pacific.

Over the past 20 years, UCLA’s Yongkang Xue has been learning how land temperature and moisture influence major climate patterns.

The work of ethnomusicologist Anna Morcom, director of the UCLA Center for India and South Asia, focuses on modern Indian and Tibetan performing arts.

The program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, gives awardees the opportunity to study aspects of a society or societies.

Forni comes to the Fowler after an accomplished tenure at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada.

The Shiao Yi Wuxia Collection includes manuscripts, photographs and other ephemera.

The event revolves around the four exhibitions on view, which feature art from Africa and Australia.

The conservationist received $100,000 for her work to protect Indonesia’s species-rich Leuser Ecosystem.

The awardees will conduct research in Japan, Ghana, Ethiopia, Morocco, Rwanda, Spain, France, Mexico and the Philippines.

In its third year, the Modern Endangered Archives Program has also launched an open access website.

The celebrated leader in philanthropy and advancing social causes was also the founding chair of the center’s board of advisors. 

AAPI faculty and staff at UCLA recommend media that provide insights into history, culture, struggle and contributions.

The gift will “strengthen our vibrant community of faculty and students dedicated to studying Taiwan,” said Min Zhou, director of the UCLA Asia Pacific Center.

Ross died Sept. 16 at his home in Los Angeles after a long illness. He was 73.

Berns led the Fowler, one of the world’s top museums focusing on the arts and cultures of Africa, Asia, the Pacific and the indigenous Americas, for nearly 20 years.

Professors and alumni played a big role in bringing the stories of America’s most diverse ethnic group to the small screen.

Sociologist Victor Agadjanian has worked as a Portuguese-Russian interpreter for Soviet medical missions in Africa and even underwent yearlong training as a witch doctor in Mozambique.

Jennifer Chun examines how labor, gender, race, class and migration intersect in today’s global economy.

Peers and former students celebrated UCLA’s Gregory Schopen, who ‘has transformed our understanding of Buddhism more than any other scholar.’

The funds, from the J. Yang and Family Foundation, will provide scholarships and bolster research and curriculum development.