How Arabic helped shape everyday English
Kinda Al Rifae says the language has traveled alongside ideas, profoundly influencing the vocabulary of modern life.
Kinda Al Rifae says the language has traveled alongside ideas, profoundly influencing the vocabulary of modern life.
The event, organized by Kelly Nguyen, brought together Westminster High students, members of Orange County’s Little Saigon community and UCLA scholars.
Among her award-winning books is “Eugenic Nation,” which examines the broad reach of eugenics in the U.S. throughout the 20th century.
Using resources from the Clark Library collection, fourth-year student Alfons Rosales prepared a tasty dish from a 300-year-old recipe.
The Cornell philosophy professor, who will deliver the Dean's Lecture in Humanistic Inquiry April 30, suggests that those calling people “snowflakes” might in fact be the oversensitive ones.
The world-renowned William Andrews Clark Memorial Library is featured on CBS LA’s ‘Look at This!’
The classics professor connects today’s lunar mission to questions that inspired ancient Greek scientists.
Although she has taught Russian and Czech at UCLA for 30 years, the senior lecturer says she has never run out of new things to discover.
In the Los Angeles Review of Books, Distinguished Professor Robert Watson writes that the famous line doesn’t mean what “Hamnet” thinks it means.
The initiative addresses the need for language study in a world where cultural understanding and communication skills are vital.
“If we want to help and heal others, we have to start with their stories,” says second-year student Cooper Steffensen.
The UCLA professor of English and design media arts created a private large language model that replicates the ancient practice of reading coffee grounds.
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