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View of Los Angeles wildfire from Griffith Park
Faculty/Department, News, Staff, Students

Wildfire response: Campus provides list of resources for evacuees – and those seeking to help

A dedicated webpage offers links to support organizations for those affected by the fires and nonprofits accepting donations.

Logo for 2025 World Languages Day
Events, News, Students

World Languages Day returns Feb. 5

The event offers interactive experiences and opportunities to win prizes just for meeting with language department representatives.

King-Kok Cheung portrait
Faculty First Person, News

Reflecting on a sinuous life as an omnivorous humanist

Professor Emeritus King-Kok Cheung recounts her journey from outsider and suspect to intersectional scholar and brash maverick.

The Reichstag in Berlin, Germany
Alumni, Awards and Honors, News, Uncategorized

2024 grad will have close-up view of Germany’s transition to new government

Elsa Coony said it would be “a particularly fascinating and dynamic time to be working close to the center of the government.”

UCLA English students attending a performance of Waiting for Godot at the Geffen Playhouse
Faculty/Department, News, Students

For Colleen Jaurretche’s students, ‘Waiting for Godot’ comes to life

With performances taking place at the Geffen Playhouse, students were treated to Beckett’s work at its most intentional.

Portrait of Alexandra Minna Stern
Events, Faculty/Department, News

Dean Stern to present at Dec. 9 AAAS discussion on disability justice, reproductive justice

The online event is part of the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Sea Change Biomedicine series.

Portrait of Richard Yarborough
Faculty/Department, News

His career is the ‘story of the African American literary tradition’

On the eve of a symposium in his honor, a UCLA colleague and two former students pay tribute to Professor Emeritus Richard Yarborough.

AI-generated graphics for cover of comparative literature course
Faculty/Department, News, Teaching

Comparative lit class will be first in Humanities to use UCLA-developed AI system

Professor Zrinka Stahuljak said the technology will have immediate tangible benefits for her, teaching assistants and students.

M. Rahim Shayegan, director of the Pourdavoud Institute and Yarshater Center; Elton Daniel, secretary of the Persian Heritage Foundation; Alexandra Minna Stern, dean of the UCLA Division of the Humanities; and Darnell Hunt, UCLA interim chancellor
Faculty/Department, News

A new era for Iranian studies

“This puts UCLA at the forefront and as the epicenter of ancient Iranian studies and Persian studies in the United States — if not in the world,” said Humanities Dean Alexandra Minna Stern.

Tom Bye, Professor Megha Sundara and David Bohne with an oversized check representing the gift from Bye and Bohne
Alumni, Gifts/Grants, News, Uncategorized

$1.5 million gift from Tom Bye and David Bohne establishes endowed chair in linguistics

The chair will be held by a scholar whose work bridges theoretical linguistics and practical problems of language use in everyday life.

Portrait of Professor William Schniedewind with UCLA Powell Library in background
Books, Events, Faculty/Department, News

Who wrote the Bible? In new book, upcoming lecture, William Schniedewind offers bold new answers

“It’s important to think of the Bible as an anthology of ancient Jewish communities as opposed to a singular voice,” says the director of the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies.

Ceramic vessel in feline form from Moche community in Peru
Events, Faculty/Department, News

In Fowler Museum exhibition, ancient Peruvian objects reveal search for meaning, connection with nature

Art historian Stella Nair says the collection shows that the Moche and Nasca societies “were acutely aware of the entire ecological system in which they lived.”

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