Research

• UCLA Sephardic Archive Initiative
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  • The initiative aims to reverse the historic neglect of the Sephardi past by working with partners in the UCLA Library Special Collections to identify collections of interest and use these collections to share the history and culture of Sephardic California with students, scholars, and an international user public
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Chris Silver
    (Updated: May 27 2022)

• Global Lab for Research in Action
  Luskin School of Public Affairs
  • The Global Lab for Research in Action studies critical social justice issues faced by hard-to-reach populations worldwide, pursuing evidence-based solutions to critical health, education, and economic issues. They translate findings into more digestible formats and amplify the insights to deepen public understanding and promote evidence-based policy.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Manisha Shah
    (Updated: Jan 20 2023)

• WORLD Policy Analysis Center
  School of Public Health
  • The WORLD Policy Analysis Center is a Fielding School-based non-profit policy research center that aims to improve the quantity and quality of globally comparative data on policies affecting human health, development, well-being, and equity by collecting and analyzing sources of information on rights, laws, and policies.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Jody Heymann
    (Updated: Jan 23 2023)

• Global Access Program (GAP)
  John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management
  • GAP sends teams of talented professionals around the world to work with select technology companies. MBA students invest thousands of hours in research to find new growth opportunities in the U.S. market to take a company to its next level of development.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Chelsea Goossens
    (Updated: Jan 26 2023)

• Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health
  School of Public Health
  • The Center promotes and supports research, training, and applied public health in the areas of population, reproductive health, and family planning. The principal focus of the program is on reproductive health issues in developing countries, where population growth rates remain high and reproductive health services are poor or inaccessible.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Rachel Veerman
    (Updated: Jan 26 2023)

• The Civil Rights Project
  Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
  • The Civil Rights Project aims to renew the civil rights movement by bridging the worlds of ideas and action, be a preeminent source of intellectual capital within that movement, and deepen the understanding of the issues that must be resolved to achieve racial and ethnic equity in this century.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Gary Orfield
    (Updated: Jan 26 2023)

• Whose Global Village? Rethinking How Technology Shapes Our World
  Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
  • In the digital age, technology has shrunk the physical world into a “global village,” where information travels to the farthest reaches of the planet with the click of a mouse. However, new technologies rarely reflect the perspectives of those at the bottom of the digital divide.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Ramesh Srinivasan
    (Updated: Jan 30 2023)

• Águilas: A documentary film
  College of Letters and Science: Humanities
  • Along the southern desert border in Arizona, it is estimated that only one out of every five missing migrants are ever found. Águilas is the story of one group of searchers, the Aguilas del Desierto.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Maite Zubiaurre
    (Updated: Feb 10 2023)

• The Forgotten Canopy: Ecology, Ephemeral Architecture, and Imperialism in the Caribbean, South American, and Transatlantic Worlds
  College of Letters and Science: Humanities
  • The core conference program to be held by the Center for 17th– & 18th-Century Studies at UCLA’s Clark Library (2022–2023) will convene scholars around the topics of “Ecology,” “Ephemeral Architecture,” and “Imperialism” in the early modern (16th–19th-century) world.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Stella Nair
    (Updated: Feb 10 2023)

• Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference (WeCIEC 33)
  College of Letters and Science: Humanities
  • The conference invites papers on any aspect of Indo-European studies: linguistics, archaeology, comparative mythology/poetics, culture. Papers on both interdisciplinary and specific topics (e.g., typology, methodology, reconstruction, the interpretation of material culture, etc.) are welcome.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		John Clayton
    (Updated: Feb 15 2023)

• The Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  • Housed in the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, the Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies offers students at the undergraduate and graduate level the rare opportunity to focus intensively on the study of Sephardic history and culture.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Aomar Boum
    (Updated: Feb 23 2023)

• Viterbi Program in Mediterranean Jewish Studies
  College of Letters and Science: Humanities
  • UCLA funded a pilot program in Italian Jewish studies in 2004 and created the Viterbi Family Endowment in Mediterranean Jewish Studies in 2008. The program looks beyond traditional political boundaries in order to understand transnational commercial and intellectual connections between different groups of people.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Sarah Stein
    (Updated: Feb 27 2023)

• California Working Group on Jews in the Maghrib and Middle East
  College of Letters and Science: Humanities
  • The California Working Group on Jews in the Maghrib and Middle East (CalJeMM) was founded in the fall of 2015 with the goal of creating an intellectual community to promote academic research in Middle Eastern Jewish Studies and adjacent fields. CalJeMM members meet regularly to share work in progress.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Sarah Stein
    (Updated: Feb 27 2023)

• GloCal Health Fellowship
  School of Medicine
  • The GloCal Health Fellowship provides aspiring global health researchers with outstanding interdisciplinary education and training in innovative research designed to improve health for populations around the world. The GloCal Health Fellowship supports a 12-month, mentored research fellowship for investigators interested in studying diseases and conditions in developing countries.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Craig Cohen
    (Updated: Mar 01 2023)

• The UCLA Metabolomics and Proteomics Shared Resource
  School of Medicine
  • The UCLA Metabolomics and Proteomics Shared Resource was established in the spring of 2013. The mission of the center is to develop and apply cutting-edge approaches for quantitative metabolomics and proteomics.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Thomas Graeber
    (Updated: Mar 01 2023)

• Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
  College of Letters and Science: Humanities
  • The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) represents the efforts of an international group of Assyriologists, museum curators and historians of science to make available through the internet the form and content of cuneiform inscriptions dating from the beginning of writing, ca. 3350 BC, until the end of the pre-Christian era.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Jacob Dahl
    (Updated: Mar 03 2023)

• California Center for Population Research: Migration and Immigration
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  • Migration has been part of almost all human history, but its nature, scale, and complexity in today’s globalized world make it increasingly consequential. Migration and immigration are intertwined with socioeconomic, cultural, political, legal, and other demographic dynamics shaping the well-being of migrants and the sending and receiving societies.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Andrés Villarreal
    (Updated: Mar 08 2023)

• Center for Tropical Research
  College of Letters and Science: Physical Sciences
  • The Center for Tropical Research was founded by Dr. Thomas B. Smith in 1997 as a research unit at San Francisco State University. In January 2002, CTR moved from SFSU to UCLA. CTR has expanded its research programs to more than 45 countries on six continents.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Thomas Smith
    (Updated: Mar 08 2023)

• Chemistry & Biochemistry Distinguished Lecture Series
  College of Letters and Science: Physical Sciences
  • The UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Distinguished Lecture Series is a department-wide colloquium in a special week once per quarter when there are no other seminars in the department. Some of the world’s most accomplished and engaging scientists are invited to participate in the lecture series.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Neil K. Garg
    (Updated: Mar 15 2023)

• Annual Yanai Lecture
  College of Letters and Science: Physical Sciences
  • In esteemed scientist Michio Yanai’s honor, the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences founded the Annual Yanai Distinguished Lecture which features esteemed guest speakers from across the globe. Every year, they discuss various global topics and issues in atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Suzanne Paulson
    (Updated: Mar 15 2023)

• Art|Sci Center
  School of the Arts and Architecture
  • The Art|Sci Center's mission is "to pursue, facilitate and promote research and programs that demonstrate the potential of media arts and science collaborations." The Art|Sci Center focuses on collaborative projects that address social, ethical and environmental issues related to scientific innovations.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Victoria Vesna
    (Updated: Mar 17 2023)

• Named Data Networking
  School of Engineering and Applied Science
  • Researchers at UCLA's Center for Research in Engineering, Media and Performance contribute to the ongoing work of the Named Data Networking (NDN) project. The project aims to develop a new Internet architecture that can capitalize on strengths — and address weaknesses — of the Internet’s current host-based, point-to-point communication architecture.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Lixia Zhang
    (Updated: Mar 17 2023)

• Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences Colloquium
  College of Letters and Science: Physical Sciences
  • The UCLA Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences Colloquium is a department-wide colloquium wherein every quarter, numerous scientists from across the globe participate as guest speakers in the lecture series. They discuss various global issues in earth sciences and topics related to their research relevant to the world today.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni
    (Updated: Mar 20 2023)

• Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA)
  College of Letters and Science: Physical Sciences
  • ANITA is a balloon-borne experiment designed to fly over Antarctica to study cosmic UHE neutrinos. The project provides an exciting window into very high energy physical phenomena like the generation of micro-black holes and other exotic occurrences that could demonstrate the unity of forces in the universe.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Andrea Ghez
    (Updated: Apr 06 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)

• Particle Beam Physics Laboratory
  College of Letters and Science: Physical Sciences
  • The Particle Beam Physics Laboratory is a state-of-the-art center for research into intense relativistic beams, their fundamental physics and sophisticated technology, and their applications towards high-impact scientific frontiers. The laboratory’s facilities include many collaborations from external institutions such as Instituto Nazionalo di Fisica Nucleare - Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Italy.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		James Rosenzweig
    (Updated: Apr 06 2023)

• The South Pole Telescope Project
  College of Letters and Science: Physical Sciences
  • The South Pole Telescope Project is built to observe the temperature and polarization of the cosmic microwave background. This provides information on the origin and history of the universe, with the project's main science goals including the properties of light stable particles and the nature of the universe's first structures.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Andrea Ghez
    (Updated: Apr 07 2023)

• LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Project
  College of Letters and Science: Physical Sciences
  • The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) project is a dark matter experiment selected by the Department of Energy as the flagship U.S. dark matter experiment. It is located deep underground, at the 4850' level of the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota. The research project has numerous collaborators from across the globe.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Alvine Kamaha
    (Updated: Apr 07 2023)

• Indigenous Material and Visual Culture in the Americas, circa 1450–1750 CE
  College of Letters and Science: Humanities
  • IMVCA is an interdisciplinary working group aimed at facilitating the study of indigenous cultural productions from across the Americas: South, Central, and North. Although there is an early modern focus, the group often expands its chronological scope. IMVCA meetings seek to provide a space for engagement between disciplines and geographic
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Stella Nair
    (Updated: Apr 19 2023)

• The Racial Violence Hub
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  • This site creates a virtual community of feminist critical race scholars, artists, activists, and organizations working on issues of racial violence and the state. The Hub’s goal is to foster research, develop critical pedagogies and share resources for anti-violence practices around state violence against Indigenous and racialized peoples.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Sherene Razack
    (Updated: Apr 25 2023)

• Ethnomusicology Archive
  School of the Arts and Architecture
  • The UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive is a world-renowned research archive dedicated to the study of musical traditions from around the globe. The Archive’s collection of more than 150,000 audio, video, print, and photographic items documents musical expressions throughout the world and includes unique field recordings as well as rare commercial recordings.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Maureen Russell
    (Updated: Apr 26 2023)

• Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Collection
  College of Letters and Science: Humanities
  • Richard and Mary Rouse have spent their lives studying the history, production, and use of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, and the history of the libraries through which these manuscripts passed. Over the years, they have gathered an impressive manuscript collection of their own, and have donated the collection to UCLA.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Zrinka Stahuljak
    (Updated: Apr 26 2023)

• Atlantic History Colloquium
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  • The Atlantic History Colloquium generates innovative scholarship on the relations linking Africa, Europe and the Americas by investigating the expansion of markets during the slave trade; the production of literary texts and forms of historical memory; and the dynamics of race, gender and creolization throughout the Atlantic world.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Carla Pestana
    (Updated: Apr 28 2023)

• East Asian Lab
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  • The East Asian Lab is directed by Lothar von Falkenhausen, used primarily by graduate students to conduct independent research projects.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Lothar von Falkenhausen
    (Updated: Apr 28 2023)

• Zooarchaeology Lab
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  • The Zooarchaeology Lab was established in 1989 in order to facilitate the identification and analysis of animal remains from archaeological sites. To date the lab has conducted over 300 separate projects from six continents.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Thomas Wake
    (Updated: Apr 28 2023)

• Red para el Estudio de la Economía Política de América Latina (REPAL)
  Luskin School of Public Affairs
  • Repal is a network of researchers (institutionally affiliated with universities in Latin America, North America, and Europe) interested in promoting and giving greater visibility to new studies in the political economy of Latin America. Members of the Latin American Cities Initiative participated in the REPAL 2019 conference in New Orleans.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Paavo Monkkonen
    (Updated: May 08 2023)

• Comparative Social Analysis Seminar
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  • This seminar discusses work in progress by visiting faculty, local faculty, and sociology graduate students. The distinctive discussion-only format, with no initial presentation by the author or assigned commentators, maximizes participation and engagement and provides for a lively intellectual exchange. Each session is followed by informal discussion.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Roger Waldinger
    (Updated: May 08 2023)

• Developing a New Approach to Migration and Policy-Making in Africa
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  • The project aims to develop a core set of policy-making principles and guidelines for governing migration that both center migrant agency, and to apply these guidelines to southern Africa in order to produce substantive recommendations for the region, as well as to illustrate the practical value of the general method.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Tendayi Achiume
    (Updated: May 08 2023)

• Global Solidarity Project
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  • The Global Solidarity Project believes that in a global economy, unions and workers must come together across borders. The project aims to build international partnerships among labor leaders and scholars and conduct key research to improve labor standards and working conditions throughout the world.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Kent Wong
    (Updated: May 08 2023)

• Institut des Amériques
  International Institute
  • The Institut des Amériques is a French institute that promotes “Americanist” research, meaning studies that pertain to all three Americas: South, Central, and North. The IdA maintains a multidisciplinary network of researchers and universities throughout the world.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Bryan Pitts
    (Updated: May 17 2023)

• Antarctica and Climate Change
  Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
  • Raphael has been studying Antarctica’s sea ice and the complex set of atmospheric factors that influence it — and are influenced by it — for more than two decades. Still, answering the critical question of whether the recent historic low is the result of global warming will require further research.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Marilyn Raphael
    (Updated: May 24 2023)

• UFAHAMU: A Journal of African Studies
  International Institute
  • Ufahamu is an interdisciplinary Journal of African Studies committed to publishing views about social issues, addressing both the general reader and the scholar. Ufahamu continues to challenge and correct misconceptions about Africa and the African diaspora, thereby creating relevant criteria for African Studies and African Diasporic Studies.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Brisa Smith-Flores
    (Updated: Aug 07 2023)

• African Arts Journal
  International Institute
  • African Arts presents original research and critical discourse on traditional, contemporary, and popular African arts and expressive cultures. Since 1967, the journal has reflected the dynamism and diversity of several fields of humanistic study, publishing richly illustrated articles in full color, incorporating the most current theory, practice, and intercultural dialogue.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Sheila Breeding
    (Updated: Aug 07 2023)

• Resident Exchange with Bali International Medical Centre Hospital
  School of Medicine
  • Residents from the UCLA/Olive View-UCLA Emergency Medicine program and the UCLA Family Medicine program have rotated at the Bali International Medical Centre Hospital since 2002. Residents teach and mentor national primary care physicians in topics related to acute care medicine and family medicine.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Matthew Waxman
    (Updated: Aug 07 2023)

• Forum of Mathematics, Pi
  College of Letters and Science: Physical Sciences
  • Forum of Mathematics, Pi and Forum of Mathematics, Sigma are fully open access journals published by Cambridge University Press. The journals provide a platform for international collaboration as they welcome research papers from all parts of pure mathematics and related areas written by researchers from across the globe, including UCLA.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Mario Bonk
    (Updated: Aug 07 2023)

• USAID/PEPFAR HIV Care and Treatment Program
  School of Medicine
  • USAID’s overall goal is to support and sustain the achievement of HIV epidemic control by providing global leadership in the development of programs that maximize impact, supporting country-led strategies, and using science, technology, and innovation to support cost-effective, sustainable, and appropriately integrated HIV/AIDS interventions at scale.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Risa Hoffman
    (Updated: Aug 07 2023)

• CMRS-CEGS/LAMAR Methodology Seminars
  College of Letters and Science: Humanities
  • These Seminars give UCLA students a chance to meet and interact with prominent authorities in the field of Medieval and Renaissance Studies. These classes receive funding from CMRS to bring distinguished scholars to UCLA to participate in seminars and symposia, to present lectures, and to have informal discussions with students.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Zrinka Stahuljak
    (Updated: Aug 07 2023)

Education/Training

• Global Lab for Research in Action
  Luskin School of Public Affairs
  • The Global Lab for Research in Action studies critical social justice issues faced by hard-to-reach populations worldwide, pursuing evidence-based solutions to critical health, education, and economic issues. They translate findings into more digestible formats and amplify the insights to deepen public understanding and promote evidence-based policy.
    Project Contact:

    Project website

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    Manisha Shah

• WORLD Policy Analysis Center
  School of Public Health
  • The WORLD Policy Analysis Center is a Fielding School-based non-profit policy research center that aims to improve the quantity and quality of globally comparative data on policies affecting human health, development, well-being, and equity by collecting and analyzing sources of information on rights, laws, and policies.
    Project Contact:

    Project website

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    Jody Heymann

• F/EMBA International Exchange
  John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management
  • The Center for Global Management partners with top business and management schools around the world to offer short-term, International Exchange courses for F/EMBA students. These courses provide an opportunity for students to learn more about another country's educational, cultural, and business environments.
    Project Contact:

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    Alena Kim

• Global Access Program (GAP)
  John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management
  • GAP sends teams of talented professionals around the world to work with select technology companies. MBA students invest thousands of hours in research to find new growth opportunities in the U.S. market to take a company to its next level of development.
    Project Contact:

    Project website

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    Chelsea Goossens

• Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health
  School of Public Health
  • The Center promotes and supports research, training, and applied public health in the areas of population, reproductive health, and family planning. The principal focus of the program is on reproductive health issues in developing countries, where population growth rates remain high and reproductive health services are poor or inaccessible.
    Project Contact:

    Project website

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    Rachel Veerman

• The Civil Rights Project
  Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
  • The Civil Rights Project aims to renew the civil rights movement by bridging the worlds of ideas and action, be a preeminent source of intellectual capital within that movement, and deepen the understanding of the issues that must be resolved to achieve racial and ethnic equity in this century.
    Project Contact:

    Project website

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    Gary Orfield

• International Telepathology Program
  School of Medicine
  • UCLA Health has one of the largest and most experienced international telepathology programs in the world. Our experts use advanced telemedicine technology to remotely review pathology images and consult with medical teams from almost anywhere.
    Project Contact:

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    Jianyu Rao

• International Society of Nephrology (ISN) Sister Programs
  School of Medicine
  • The ISN has two flagship programs that provide educational support and guidance to centers in need within the developing nephrology community by pairing them with established centers to form supportive partnerships.
    Project Contact:

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    Anh Tran

• Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference (WeCIEC 33)
  College of Letters and Science: Humanities
  • The conference invites papers on any aspect of Indo-European studies: linguistics, archaeology, comparative mythology/poetics, culture. Papers on both interdisciplinary and specific topics (e.g., typology, methodology, reconstruction, the interpretation of material culture, etc.) are welcome.
    Project Contact:

    Project website

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    John Clayton

• Executive MBA International Business Residency
  John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management
  • Each year there are three countries for the Executive MBA students to choose from for their travels, with destinations in Asia, South America, and Europe. While in the country, students participate in company visits, plus network with business professionals, government leaders, faculty at local universities, and local Anderson alumni.
    Project Contact:

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    Lucy Allard

• The Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  • Housed in the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, the Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies offers students at the undergraduate and graduate level the rare opportunity to focus intensively on the study of Sephardic history and culture.
    Project Contact:

    Project website

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    Aomar Boum

• GloCal Health Fellowship
  School of Medicine
  • The GloCal Health Fellowship provides aspiring global health researchers with outstanding interdisciplinary education and training in innovative research designed to improve health for populations around the world. The GloCal Health Fellowship supports a 12-month, mentored research fellowship for investigators interested in studying diseases and conditions in developing countries.
    Project Contact:

    Project website

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    Craig Cohen

• Center for Tropical Research
  College of Letters and Science: Physical Sciences
  • The Center for Tropical Research was founded by Dr. Thomas B. Smith in 1997 as a research unit at San Francisco State University. In January 2002, CTR moved from SFSU to UCLA. CTR has expanded its research programs to more than 45 countries on six continents.
    Project Contact:

    Project website

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    Thomas Smith

• Chemistry & Biochemistry Distinguished Lecture Series
  College of Letters and Science: Physical Sciences
  • The UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Distinguished Lecture Series is a department-wide colloquium in a special week once per quarter when there are no other seminars in the department. Some of the world’s most accomplished and engaging scientists are invited to participate in the lecture series.
    Project Contact:

    Project website

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    Neil K. Garg

• Annual Yanai Lecture
  College of Letters and Science: Physical Sciences
  • In esteemed scientist Michio Yanai’s honor, the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences founded the Annual Yanai Distinguished Lecture which features esteemed guest speakers from across the globe. Every year, they discuss various global topics and issues in atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
    Project Contact:

    Project website

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    Suzanne Paulson

• Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences Colloquium
  College of Letters and Science: Physical Sciences
  • The UCLA Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences Colloquium is a department-wide colloquium wherein every quarter, numerous scientists from across the globe participate as guest speakers in the lecture series. They discuss various global issues in earth sciences and topics related to their research relevant to the world today.
    Project Contact:

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    Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni

• International and Comparative Law Program Internships & Externships
  School of Law
  • The program provides support to students who wish to spend a semester or summer in an externship or internship focused on international or comparative law with non-governmental organizations, international organizations, and governments.
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    Jessica Peake

• International Practice Pathway (IPP) Summer Fellowships
  Luskin School of Public Affairs
  • The International Practice Pathway (IPP) of Global Public Affairs at Luskin provides financial support for first year students seeking summer placements in low and middle-income countries. Summer internships are serious professional undertakings involving recognized international organizations. Professionalism, responsibility, and respect are required of all students participating in the program.
    Project Contact:

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    Steve Commins

• The Racial Violence Hub
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  • This site creates a virtual community of feminist critical race scholars, artists, activists, and organizations working on issues of racial violence and the state. The Hub’s goal is to foster research, develop critical pedagogies and share resources for anti-violence practices around state violence against Indigenous and racialized peoples.
    Project Contact:

    Project website

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    Sherene Razack

• Atlantic History Colloquium
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  • The Atlantic History Colloquium generates innovative scholarship on the relations linking Africa, Europe and the Americas by investigating the expansion of markets during the slave trade; the production of literary texts and forms of historical memory; and the dynamics of race, gender and creolization throughout the Atlantic world.
    Project Contact:

    Project website

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    Carla Pestana

• Red para el Estudio de la Economía Política de América Latina (REPAL)
  Luskin School of Public Affairs
  • Repal is a network of researchers (institutionally affiliated with universities in Latin America, North America, and Europe) interested in promoting and giving greater visibility to new studies in the political economy of Latin America. Members of the Latin American Cities Initiative participated in the REPAL 2019 conference in New Orleans.
    Project Contact:

    Project website

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    Paavo Monkkonen

• Comparative Social Analysis Seminar
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  • This seminar discusses work in progress by visiting faculty, local faculty, and sociology graduate students. The distinctive discussion-only format, with no initial presentation by the author or assigned commentators, maximizes participation and engagement and provides for a lively intellectual exchange. Each session is followed by informal discussion.
    Project Contact:

    Project website

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    Roger Waldinger

• Sketch to Screen
  School of Theater, Film, and Television
  • Sketch to Screen panelists engage in a thought-provoking panel discussion about the central role costume designers play in cinematic storytelling. Audience members are given an invaluable look into some of the most successful creative minds in Hollywood.
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    Natasha Rubin

• Asian Performing Arts on Stage and On Screen
  UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
  • This annual three-day hybrid symposium highlights the diversity of Asian performing arts through presentations and performances in various media, including panel presentations, film screenings with discussion, lecture-demonstrations on musical instruments, and live staged performances of music, dance, and puppetry. Performances include Javanese shadow puppets and Philippine kulintang music and dance.
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    UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

• UFAHAMU: A Journal of African Studies
  International Institute
  • Ufahamu is an interdisciplinary Journal of African Studies committed to publishing views about social issues, addressing both the general reader and the scholar. Ufahamu continues to challenge and correct misconceptions about Africa and the African diaspora, thereby creating relevant criteria for African Studies and African Diasporic Studies.
    Project Contact:

    Project website

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    Brisa Smith-Flores

• African Arts Journal
  International Institute
  • African Arts presents original research and critical discourse on traditional, contemporary, and popular African arts and expressive cultures. Since 1967, the journal has reflected the dynamism and diversity of several fields of humanistic study, publishing richly illustrated articles in full color, incorporating the most current theory, practice, and intercultural dialogue.
    Project Contact:

    Project website

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    Sheila Breeding

• Resident Exchange with Bali International Medical Centre Hospital
  School of Medicine
  • Residents from the UCLA/Olive View-UCLA Emergency Medicine program and the UCLA Family Medicine program have rotated at the Bali International Medical Centre Hospital since 2002. Residents teach and mentor national primary care physicians in topics related to acute care medicine and family medicine.
    Project Contact:

    Project website

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    Matthew Waxman

• Forum of Mathematics, Pi
  College of Letters and Science: Physical Sciences
  • Forum of Mathematics, Pi and Forum of Mathematics, Sigma are fully open access journals published by Cambridge University Press. The journals provide a platform for international collaboration as they welcome research papers from all parts of pure mathematics and related areas written by researchers from across the globe, including UCLA.
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    Mario Bonk

• USAID/PEPFAR HIV Care and Treatment Program
  School of Medicine
  • USAID’s overall goal is to support and sustain the achievement of HIV epidemic control by providing global leadership in the development of programs that maximize impact, supporting country-led strategies, and using science, technology, and innovation to support cost-effective, sustainable, and appropriately integrated HIV/AIDS interventions at scale.
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    Risa Hoffman

• Global Health Selective
  School of Medicine
  • The Global Health Selective, offered through the UCLA Center for World Health, is a student-led elective course that aims to expose students to various global health topics.
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    Fola May

• Global Immersion Courses
  John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management
  • Concentrating on the school’s target regions of Asia and Latin America, the Center for Global Management offers four-unit global immersion elective courses designed to expose students to a country’s economy, political environment, and major industries and businesses.
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    Joanna Danielak

• Visionaries International
  School of Medicine
  • The goal of non-profit organization Visionaries International, founded by Dr. Aldave in 2008, is to reduce the burden of corneal blindness in the developing world through corneal transplant surgical skill transfer and eye bank development. Recently, Dr. Aldave and his collaborators have been awarded a UCLA Global Health Seed Grant.
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    Anthony Aldave

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• Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health
  School of Public Health
  • The Center promotes and supports research, training, and applied public health in the areas of population, reproductive health, and family planning. The principal focus of the program is on reproductive health issues in developing countries, where population growth rates remain high and reproductive health services are poor or inaccessible.
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    Rachel Veerman

• International Telepathology Program
  School of Medicine
  • UCLA Health has one of the largest and most experienced international telepathology programs in the world. Our experts use advanced telemedicine technology to remotely review pathology images and consult with medical teams from almost anywhere.
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    Jianyu Rao

• International Society of Nephrology (ISN) Sister Programs
  School of Medicine
  • The ISN has two flagship programs that provide educational support and guidance to centers in need within the developing nephrology community by pairing them with established centers to form supportive partnerships.
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    Anh Tran

• Center for Tropical Research
  College of Letters and Science: Physical Sciences
  • The Center for Tropical Research was founded by Dr. Thomas B. Smith in 1997 as a research unit at San Francisco State University. In January 2002, CTR moved from SFSU to UCLA. CTR has expanded its research programs to more than 45 countries on six continents.
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    Thomas Smith

• The Racial Violence Hub
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  • This site creates a virtual community of feminist critical race scholars, artists, activists, and organizations working on issues of racial violence and the state. The Hub’s goal is to foster research, develop critical pedagogies and share resources for anti-violence practices around state violence against Indigenous and racialized peoples.
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    Sherene Razack

• Developing a New Approach to Migration and Policy-Making in Africa
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  • The project aims to develop a core set of policy-making principles and guidelines for governing migration that both center migrant agency, and to apply these guidelines to southern Africa in order to produce substantive recommendations for the region, as well as to illustrate the practical value of the general method.
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    Tendayi Achiume

• Global Solidarity Project
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  • The Global Solidarity Project believes that in a global economy, unions and workers must come together across borders. The project aims to build international partnerships among labor leaders and scholars and conduct key research to improve labor standards and working conditions throughout the world.
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    Kent Wong

• Resident Exchange with Bali International Medical Centre Hospital
  School of Medicine
  • Residents from the UCLA/Olive View-UCLA Emergency Medicine program and the UCLA Family Medicine program have rotated at the Bali International Medical Centre Hospital since 2002. Residents teach and mentor national primary care physicians in topics related to acute care medicine and family medicine.
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    Matthew Waxman

• Visionaries International
  School of Medicine
  • The goal of non-profit organization Visionaries International, founded by Dr. Aldave in 2008, is to reduce the burden of corneal blindness in the developing world through corneal transplant surgical skill transfer and eye bank development. Recently, Dr. Aldave and his collaborators have been awarded a UCLA Global Health Seed Grant.
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    Anthony Aldave

UCEAP

• International and Comparative Law Program Internships & Externships
  • The program provides support to students who wish to spend a semester or summer in an externship or internship focused on international or comparative law with non-governmental organizations, international organizations, and governments.

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• International Practice Pathway (IPP) Summer Fellowships
  • The International Practice Pathway (IPP) of Global Public Affairs at Luskin provides financial support for first year students seeking summer placements in low and middle-income countries. Summer internships are serious professional undertakings involving recognized international organizations. Professionalism, responsibility, and respect are required of all students participating in the program.

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UCLA Exchange Programs

• Foreign Legal Study & Exchange Program
  • UCLA Law offers opportunities for its students and those in other countries to gain insights into the legal systems and policies of different nations. UCLA Law has partnered with 16 leading academic institutions in Europe, Asia, Israel, Australia and South America to establish the Foreign Legal Study and Exchange Program.

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Global Internship Programs

• Virtual Internships
  • The UCLA Global Internship provides you an opportunity to intern at a company or organization abroad from the comfortable confines of your own home! With project-based work, you will have the ability to make an impact at your internship site, while gaining remote work experience and preparing yourself for

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