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News, Teaching

For students across the UC, Global Language Network opens a wealth of language learning opportunities

The initiative addresses the need for language study in a world where cultural understanding and communication skills are vital.

Four images: Professor Whitney Arnold with health humanities students, statue of mother and child, human and and robotic hand next to drawing, woman's hands holding a stethoscope with tubes in heart shape
Faculty/Department, News, Students, Teaching

New health humanities minor highlights the importance of human stories in health care

“If we want to help and heal others, we have to start with their stories,” says second-year student Cooper Steffensen.

Installation at MASS MoCA featuring AI-assisted tasseography readings, brass enclosure, Armenian patterns on wall paper, flooring, textiles and ceramics, with furniture, and books
Faculty/Department, News

Danny Snelson designs custom (and eco-friendly!) AI for new installation at MASS MoCA

The UCLA professor of English and design media arts created a private large language model that replicates the ancient practice of reading coffee grounds.

Stephanie Bosch Santana and the cover of her book "Forms of Mobility"
Awards and Honors, Books, Faculty/Department, News

Stephanie Bosch Santana receives book award from American Comparative Literature Association

“Forms of Mobility” highlights evolving centers of literary influence since the mid-20th century in Malawi, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Seated left to right: Ulysses Pascal, Aileen Tang, Anna Bonazzi, Sophia Toubian and Todd Presner
Faculty/Department, Gifts/Grants, News

Team led by Todd Presner receives $308,000 grant to study how AI is shaping Holocaust history

The research, conducted by UCLA’s AI and Cultural Heritage Lab, will explore the promise and pitfalls of large language models and social media.

Thiago Puglieri outside of the UCLA Fowler Museum
Community Engaged Scholarship, Faculty/Department, Gifts/Grants, News

Project co-led by Thiago Puglieri receives $330,000 Getty grant

UCLA art history professor, collaborators to train graduate students in community-engaged research.

Charles Rhodes speaking to ninth grade students in a Geffen Academy classroom
Graduate Students, News

Doctoral student Charles Rhodes gives Geffen Academy classes an inside look at Egyptology

The fourth-year Ph.D. student spoke about his own journey and highlighted the breadth of disciplines that make up the study of ancient Egypt.

Book on scanner bed, with illustration of bird on flowering tree branch
Faculty/Department, News, Research

Thousands of early modern Japanese books from UCLA, UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco to be digitized in Yanai Initiative project

The archive will provide access to rare Japanese materials from the early 1600s through 1868 – including books, illustrated scrolls, lavishly drawn maps and medical texts.

Nicholas Fong Neuweg
News, Research, Students

His research on the legal system explores how small decisions shape the truth

Philosophy major Nicholas Fong Neuweg is learning how routine practices in the legal system can quietly manufacture certainty.

Amber West teaching her nonprofits and public engagement course
Awards and Honors, Community Engaged Scholarship, Faculty/Department, News

Amber West tapped for national program on community-engaged teaching

The Writing Programs lecturer is the first UCLA representative to take part in an initiative organized by Campus Compact.

Portraits of Ryan Schaller and Suong Thai
Graduate Students, News, Teaching

2 Humanities Ph.D. candidates chosen to develop, teach undergrad seminars

Ryan Schaller and Suong Thai were selected for the UCLA Teaching & Learning Center’s Collegium of University Teaching Fellows program.

Undergraduate Writing Center in Powell Library
News, Students

The Undergraduate Writing Center is here to help!

Peer advisers offer free one-on-one support on class papers, resumes, lab reports, personal statements and more.

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