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English Professor Richard Yarborough Receives Distinguished Scholar Award

Professor of English Richard Yarborough is the recipient of the 2016 Darwin T. Turner Distinguished Scholar Award from the African American Literature and Culture Society. The society...

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Literature and film help teach students to understand the brain

What can Shakespeare, Cervantes, Proust, and even contemporary playwrights and filmmakers contribute to the study of neuroscience? A lot, says UCLA professor of integrative biology...

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In Memoriam: UCLA Emerita English Professor and Author Carolyn See

Author, critic and UCLA emerita English professor Carolyn See, 82, died July 13 in Santa Monica as a result of congestive heart failure. Among her...

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“Hike your own hike” TEDxUCLA talk by Dr. Tara Prescott, Writing Programs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be1igDFFGLU Universities are interesting places. For hundreds of years we have been structured with distinct schools, departments, disciplines, focuses and tracks, all built to move...

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Charlene Villaseñor Black is as Good as Gold as Recipient of Top Faculty Prize

Within the warm, terra-cotta-colored walls of her office in Dodd Hall, Charlene Villaseñor Black has assembled a whimsical mini-museum of Mexican folk art that includes...

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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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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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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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