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Marissa López receives Chancellor’s Arts Initiative grant, curates exhibition on L.A.’s past

The professor of English and of Chicana/o and Central American studies is co-leading an effort to create a new “living archive” of Latinx sounds for Los Angeles.

Teo Ruiz among 4 winners of Dickson Emeritus Professorship Award for 2023–24

Ruiz, one of the foremost medieval historians, was honored for his exceptional scholarly activity since his retirement in 2019.

For these first-year students, writings from the past shed light on issues around today’s AI revolution

A cluster course seminar led by doctoral candidate Jason Araújo provoked discussions on the nature of rapidly changing technology.

Not just word-for-word: Igor Pilshchikov on the nuances and challenges of translation

The chair of Slavic, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures explains why translation is as much art as it is science.

3 Humanities students win UCLA Library awards for undergraduate research

Kaitlyn Coons, Emma Horio and Isabella Durgin are among the honorees for 2024.

Mario Peng Lee seeks to improve lives through technology

As a student in UCLA’s Undergraduate Research Scholars Program, he studied how to apply AI and machine learning to natural language processing and understanding.

With B.A. and M.A. – and having led a UCLA course – Harry Li launches his teaching career

Through the Undergraduate Student Initiated Education program, he designed and taught a course on Mandopop for fellow UCLA students.

Linguistics alumna Ananda Lima on her fiction debut, ‘Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil’

Lima, who earned a master’s degree in 2008, still sometimes laughs when she says the title of her new book aloud.

Professor David Kim receives 2024 Gold Shield Faculty Prize

He was honored in part for his ability to merge cultures, languages and religions. The award recognizes mid-career faculty for exceptional contributions to teaching.

For classics and history major Kaitlyn Coons, graduation isn’t the end of the UCLA journey

After graduating with two majors and two minors, she will begin a postbaccalaureate in the classics department this fall.