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Home » Archives for Barbara Van Nostrand

Articles By: Barbara Van Nostrand

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Professor Collaborates with Getty Museum to Bring 15th-century Manuscript to the Public

UCLA professor and recently named Guggenheim Fellow Zrinka Stahuljak spent the last three years helping the J. Paul Getty Museum bring an important 15th-century Flemish...

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Art historian Sharon Gerstel wins 2016 Runciman Book Prize

Professor Sharon Gerstel of the UCLA Department of Art History has won the 2016 Runciman Book Prize for “Rural Lives and Landscapes in Late Byzantium”...

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English Professor Fred D’Aguiar Speaks About Violence on Campus

by Fred D'Aguiar as reported in the LA Times Op-Ed on June 2nd, 2016 I got to my office at Virginia Tech a bit before 9...

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Professor Sharon Gerstel Works with Engineering Professor at USC Viterbi to Create an “Acoustic Museum”

Chris Kyriakakis, founding director of USC’s Immersive Audio Lab and a USC Viterbi electrical engineering professor, lived his childhood in their shadow. “As a boy,...

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UCLA ALC Professor Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Professor Robert Buswell of Asian Languages and Cultures has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  His election, which the Academy announced...

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Three UCLA professors named 2016 Guggenheim Fellows

A trio of UCLA faculty members are among a distinguished group of 178 of scholars, artists and scientists from the U.S. and Canada to receive 2016...

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UCLA Asian Humanities Major, Ty Hopp will join the second cohort of Yenching Scholars at the Yenching Academy of Peking University

  We are delighted to announce that Ty Hopp, Asian Humanities major, graduating in June 2016, from UCLA has been selected as one of the...

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Comparative Literature Alumna Receives Prestigious International Gates Cambridge Scholarship

Sanna Alas (B.A.S., Human Biology & Society, Comparative Literature ’15) has been selected as one of 35 US scholars to receive the prestigious Gates Cambridge...

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Asian Languages and Cultures Lecturer Selected for the 2016 Asian Heritage Award for Innovation

The American Heritage Society and the County of San Diego has selected Quyen Di Chuc Bui to receive the 2016 Asian Heritage Award for Innovation...

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Hearing the Lost Sounds of Antiquity

History is mostly silent to us now. Thousands of years of human stories have been told in paintings, and sculptures, and sheet music, and text;...

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Andean Event “Yanantin” at UCLA spreads awareness about Quechua language

Students and faculty gathered at Young Research Library Tuesday night to learn about the Quechua, an indigenous group native to South America, and UCLA’s courses...

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Digital Humanities Students Win National Award

February 12, 2016 A team of UCLA students has won a national prize for art history research.  The Art Libraries Society of North America awarded...

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UCLA Faculty Voice: Casanova was more than a good lover

Malina Stefanovska is a professor of French and Francophone Studies at UCLA. She has published on the French court and on memoirs and autobiographies in the...

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Verónica Cortínez Wins Prestigious Chilean Literary Award

UCLA International Institute, February 8, 2016 — Verónica Cortínez, director of the UCLA Center for Southern Cone Studies and professor in the department of Spanish...

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UCLA receives $5 million from Mellon Foundation

A $5 million grant to UCLA from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will address this challenge head-on — creating core resources that will pave the...

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Teaching fellow explores identity through language, literature

Malik Chaudhary’s contradictory upbringing led him to question everything. Chaudhary was born to immigrant parents, grew up gay in a traditional Muslim household and attended...

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Trap Girl guitarist and UCLA Assistant Professor Jessica Schwartz teaches punk music

Growing up in Palos Verdes, Jessica Schwartz began music lessons at the age of 4 — first violin, and then piano. She began playing guitar...

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