Research

• UCLA Sephardic Archive Initiative
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  The initiative aims to reverse the historic neglect of the Sephardi past by working with partners in the UCLA Library Special Collections to identify collections of interest and use these collections to share the history and culture of Sephardic California with students, scholars, and an international user public
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Chris Silver
  (Updated: May 27 2022)

• Global Lab for Research in Action
  Luskin School of Public Affairs
  The Global Lab for Research in Action studies critical social justice issues faced by hard-to-reach populations worldwide, pursuing evidence-based solutions to critical health, education, and economic issues. They translate findings into more digestible formats and amplify the insights to deepen public understanding and promote evidence-based policy.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Manisha Shah
  (Updated: Jan 20 2023)

• WORLD Policy Analysis Center
  School of Public Health
  The WORLD Policy Analysis Center is a Fielding School-based non-profit policy research center that aims to improve the quantity and quality of globally comparative data on policies affecting human health, development, well-being, and equity by collecting and analyzing sources of information on rights, laws, and policies.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Jody Heymann
  (Updated: Jan 23 2023)

• Global Access Program (GAP)
  John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management
  GAP sends teams of talented professionals around the world to work with select technology companies. MBA students invest thousands of hours in research to find new growth opportunities in the U.S. market to take a company to its next level of development.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Chelsea Goossens
  (Updated: Jan 26 2023)

• Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health
  School of Public Health
  The Center promotes and supports research, training, and applied public health in the areas of population, reproductive health, and family planning. The principal focus of the program is on reproductive health issues in developing countries, where population growth rates remain high and reproductive health services are poor or inaccessible.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rachel Veerman
  (Updated: Jan 26 2023)

• The Civil Rights Project
  Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
  The Civil Rights Project aims to renew the civil rights movement by bridging the worlds of ideas and action, be a preeminent source of intellectual capital within that movement, and deepen the understanding of the issues that must be resolved to achieve racial and ethnic equity in this century.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Gary Orfield
  (Updated: Jan 26 2023)

• Águilas: A documentary film
  College of Letters and Science: Humanities
  Along the southern desert border in Arizona, it is estimated that only one out of every five missing migrants are ever found. Águilas is the story of one group of searchers, the Aguilas del Desierto.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Maite Zubiaurre
  (Updated: Feb 10 2023)

• Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference (WeCIEC 33)
  College of Letters and Science: Humanities
  The conference invites papers on any aspect of Indo-European studies: linguistics, archaeology, comparative mythology/poetics, culture. Papers on both interdisciplinary and specific topics (e.g., typology, methodology, reconstruction, the interpretation of material culture, etc.) are welcome.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			John Clayton
  (Updated: Feb 15 2023)

• The Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  Housed in the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, the Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies offers students at the undergraduate and graduate level the rare opportunity to focus intensively on the study of Sephardic history and culture.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Aomar Boum
  (Updated: Feb 23 2023)

• Viterbi Program in Mediterranean Jewish Studies
  College of Letters and Science: Humanities
  UCLA funded a pilot program in Italian Jewish studies in 2004 and created the Viterbi Family Endowment in Mediterranean Jewish Studies in 2008. The program looks beyond traditional political boundaries in order to understand transnational commercial and intellectual connections between different groups of people.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Sarah Stein
  (Updated: Feb 27 2023)

• California Working Group on Jews in the Maghrib and Middle East
  College of Letters and Science: Humanities
  The California Working Group on Jews in the Maghrib and Middle East (CalJeMM) was founded in the fall of 2015 with the goal of creating an intellectual community to promote academic research in Middle Eastern Jewish Studies and adjacent fields. CalJeMM members meet regularly to share work in progress.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Sarah Stein
  (Updated: Feb 27 2023)

• GloCal Health Fellowship
  School of Medicine
  The GloCal Health Fellowship provides aspiring global health researchers with outstanding interdisciplinary education and training in innovative research designed to improve health for populations around the world. The GloCal Health Fellowship supports a 12-month, mentored research fellowship for investigators interested in studying diseases and conditions in developing countries.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Craig Cohen
  (Updated: Mar 01 2023)

• The UCLA Metabolomics and Proteomics Shared Resource
  School of Medicine
  The UCLA Metabolomics and Proteomics Shared Resource was established in the spring of 2013. The mission of the center is to develop and apply cutting-edge approaches for quantitative metabolomics and proteomics.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Thomas Graeber
  (Updated: Mar 01 2023)

• Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
  College of Letters and Science: Humanities
  The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) represents the efforts of an international group of Assyriologists, museum curators and historians of science to make available through the internet the form and content of cuneiform inscriptions dating from the beginning of writing, ca. 3350 BC, until the end of the pre-Christian era.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Jacob Dahl
  (Updated: Mar 03 2023)

• California Center for Population Research: Migration and Immigration
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  Migration has been part of almost all human history, but its nature, scale, and complexity in today’s globalized world make it increasingly consequential. Migration and immigration are intertwined with socioeconomic, cultural, political, legal, and other demographic dynamics shaping the well-being of migrants and the sending and receiving societies.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Andrés Villarreal
  (Updated: Mar 08 2023)

• Center for Tropical Research
  College of Letters and Science: Physical Sciences
  The Center for Tropical Research was founded by Dr. Thomas B. Smith in 1997 as a research unit at San Francisco State University. In January 2002, CTR moved from SFSU to UCLA. CTR has expanded its research programs to more than 45 countries on six continents.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Thomas Smith
  (Updated: Mar 08 2023)

• Chemistry & Biochemistry Distinguished Lecture Series
  College of Letters and Science: Physical Sciences
  The UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Distinguished Lecture Series is a department-wide colloquium in a special week once per quarter when there are no other seminars in the department. Some of the world’s most accomplished and engaging scientists are invited to participate in the lecture series.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Neil K. Garg
  (Updated: Mar 15 2023)

• Annual Yanai Lecture
  College of Letters and Science: Physical Sciences
  In esteemed scientist Michio Yanai’s honor, the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences founded the Annual Yanai Distinguished Lecture which features esteemed guest speakers from across the globe. Every year, they discuss various global topics and issues in atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Suzanne Paulson
  (Updated: Mar 15 2023)

• Art|Sci Center
  School of the Arts and Architecture
  The Art|Sci Center's mission is "to pursue, facilitate and promote research and programs that demonstrate the potential of media arts and science collaborations." The Art|Sci Center focuses on collaborative projects that address social, ethical and environmental issues related to scientific innovations.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Victoria Vesna
  (Updated: Mar 17 2023)

• Named Data Networking
  School of Engineering and Applied Science
  Researchers at UCLA's Center for Research in Engineering, Media and Performance contribute to the ongoing work of the Named Data Networking (NDN) project. The project aims to develop a new Internet architecture that can capitalize on strengths — and address weaknesses — of the Internet’s current host-based, point-to-point communication architecture.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Lixia Zhang
  (Updated: Mar 17 2023)

• Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences Colloquium
  College of Letters and Science: Physical Sciences
  The UCLA Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences Colloquium is a department-wide colloquium wherein every quarter, numerous scientists from across the globe participate as guest speakers in the lecture series. They discuss various global issues in earth sciences and topics related to their research relevant to the world today.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni
  (Updated: Mar 20 2023)

• Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA)
  College of Letters and Science: Physical Sciences
  ANITA is a balloon-borne experiment designed to fly over Antarctica to study cosmic UHE neutrinos. The project provides an exciting window into very high energy physical phenomena like the generation of micro-black holes and other exotic occurrences that could demonstrate the unity of forces in the universe.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Andrea Ghez
  (Updated: Apr 06 2023)

• Gemini Planet Imager (GPI)
  College of Letters and Science: Physical Sciences
  The GPI project is a collaboration involving the American Museum of Natural History, the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, JPL, the Univ. of Montreal, the Institut National d’Optique, UCB, UCSC/UCO and UCLA. This instrument is designed for direct imaging and low-resolution spectroscopy of young planets around nearby stars using high-contrast AO.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			James Larkin
  (Updated: Apr 06 2023)

• The South Pole Telescope Project
  College of Letters and Science: Physical Sciences
  The South Pole Telescope Project is built to observe the temperature and polarization of the cosmic microwave background. This provides information on the origin and history of the universe, with the project's main science goals including the properties of light stable particles and the nature of the universe's first structures.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Andrea Ghez
  (Updated: Apr 07 2023)

• LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Project
  College of Letters and Science: Physical Sciences
  The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) project is a dark matter experiment selected by the Department of Energy as the flagship U.S. dark matter experiment. It is located deep underground, at the 4850' level of the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota. The research project has numerous collaborators from across the globe.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Alvine Kamaha
  (Updated: Apr 07 2023)

• Indigenous Material and Visual Culture in the Americas, circa 1450–1750 CE
  College of Letters and Science: Humanities
  IMVCA is an interdisciplinary working group aimed at facilitating the study of indigenous cultural productions from across the Americas: South, Central, and North. Although there is an early modern focus, the group often expands its chronological scope. IMVCA meetings seek to provide a space for engagement between disciplines and geographic
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Stella Nair
  (Updated: Apr 19 2023)

• The Racial Violence Hub
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  This site creates a virtual community of feminist critical race scholars, artists, activists, and organizations working on issues of racial violence and the state. The Hub’s goal is to foster research, develop critical pedagogies and share resources for anti-violence practices around state violence against Indigenous and racialized peoples.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Sherene Razack
  (Updated: Apr 25 2023)

• Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Collection
  College of Letters and Science: Humanities
  Richard and Mary Rouse have spent their lives studying the history, production, and use of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, and the history of the libraries through which these manuscripts passed. Over the years, they have gathered an impressive manuscript collection of their own, and have donated the collection to UCLA.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Zrinka Stahuljak
  (Updated: Apr 26 2023)

• East Asian Lab
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  The East Asian Lab is directed by Lothar von Falkenhausen, used primarily by graduate students to conduct independent research projects.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Lothar von Falkenhausen
  (Updated: Apr 28 2023)

• Zooarchaeology Lab
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  The Zooarchaeology Lab was established in 1989 in order to facilitate the identification and analysis of animal remains from archaeological sites. To date the lab has conducted over 300 separate projects from six continents.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Thomas Wake
  (Updated: Apr 28 2023)

• Red para el Estudio de la Economía Política de América Latina (REPAL)
  Luskin School of Public Affairs
  Repal is a network of researchers (institutionally affiliated with universities in Latin America, North America, and Europe) interested in promoting and giving greater visibility to new studies in the political economy of Latin America. Members of the Latin American Cities Initiative participated in the REPAL 2019 conference in New Orleans.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Paavo Monkkonen
  (Updated: May 08 2023)

• Comparative Social Analysis Seminar
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  This seminar discusses work in progress by visiting faculty, local faculty, and sociology graduate students. The distinctive discussion-only format, with no initial presentation by the author or assigned commentators, maximizes participation and engagement and provides for a lively intellectual exchange. Each session is followed by informal discussion.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Roger Waldinger
  (Updated: May 08 2023)

• Developing a New Approach to Migration and Policy-Making in Africa
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  The project aims to develop a core set of policy-making principles and guidelines for governing migration that both center migrant agency, and to apply these guidelines to southern Africa in order to produce substantive recommendations for the region, as well as to illustrate the practical value of the general method.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Tendayi Achiume
  (Updated: May 08 2023)

• Global Solidarity Project
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  The Global Solidarity Project believes that in a global economy, unions and workers must come together across borders. The project aims to build international partnerships among labor leaders and scholars and conduct key research to improve labor standards and working conditions throughout the world.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Kent Wong
  (Updated: May 08 2023)

• Institut des Amériques
  International Institute
  The Institut des Amériques is a French institute that promotes “Americanist” research, meaning studies that pertain to all three Americas: South, Central, and North. The IdA maintains a multidisciplinary network of researchers and universities throughout the world.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Bryan Pitts
  (Updated: May 17 2023)

• Antarctica and Climate Change
  Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
  Raphael has been studying Antarctica’s sea ice and the complex set of atmospheric factors that influence it — and are influenced by it — for more than two decades. Still, answering the critical question of whether the recent historic low is the result of global warming will require further research.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Marilyn Raphael
  (Updated: May 24 2023)

• UFAHAMU: A Journal of African Studies
  International Institute
  Ufahamu is an interdisciplinary Journal of African Studies committed to publishing views about social issues, addressing both the general reader and the scholar. Ufahamu continues to challenge and correct misconceptions about Africa and the African diaspora, thereby creating relevant criteria for African Studies and African Diasporic Studies.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Brisa Smith-Flores
  (Updated: Aug 07 2023)

• African Arts Journal
  International Institute
  African Arts presents original research and critical discourse on traditional, contemporary, and popular African arts and expressive cultures. Since 1967, the journal has reflected the dynamism and diversity of several fields of humanistic study, publishing richly illustrated articles in full color, incorporating the most current theory, practice, and intercultural dialogue.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Sheila Breeding
  (Updated: Aug 07 2023)

• Forum of Mathematics, Pi
  College of Letters and Science: Physical Sciences
  Forum of Mathematics, Pi and Forum of Mathematics, Sigma are fully open access journals published by Cambridge University Press. The journals provide a platform for international collaboration as they welcome research papers from all parts of pure mathematics and related areas written by researchers from across the globe, including UCLA.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Mario Bonk
  (Updated: Aug 07 2023)

• USAID/PEPFAR HIV Care and Treatment Program
  School of Medicine
  USAID’s overall goal is to support and sustain the achievement of HIV epidemic control by providing global leadership in the development of programs that maximize impact, supporting country-led strategies, and using science, technology, and innovation to support cost-effective, sustainable, and appropriately integrated HIV/AIDS interventions at scale.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Risa Hoffman
  (Updated: Aug 07 2023)

• CMRS-CEGS/LAMAR Methodology Seminars
  College of Letters and Science: Humanities
  These Seminars give UCLA students a chance to meet and interact with prominent authorities in the field of Medieval and Renaissance Studies. These classes receive funding from CMRS to bring distinguished scholars to UCLA to participate in seminars and symposia, to present lectures, and to have informal discussions with students.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Zrinka Stahuljak
  (Updated: Aug 07 2023)

• International Skeletal Dysplasia Registry
  School of Medicine
  We work with families, physicians, and researchers from around the world to classify skeletal disorders radiographically, histologically, and genetically. Understanding the genetic defect and biological pathways involved in specific skeletal disorders is assisting in the development of diagnoses, treatments, and improved patient care.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Daniel Cohn
  (Updated: Nov 03 2023)

• Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies Core Program
  College of Letters and Science: Humanities
  Every year, the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies hosts a core conference program, a series of interdisciplinary events around a common theme. The program often features workshops, symposia, graduate seminars, and public lectures. Past themes include Iberian Globalization, the British Atlantic, Japanese Art, and Persian Learning.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Stella Nair
  (Updated: Nov 03 2023)

• Ethnomusicology Archive
  UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
  The UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive is a world-renowned research archive dedicated to the study of musical traditions from around the globe. The Archive’s collection of more than 150,000 audio, video, print, and photographic items documents musical expressions throughout the world and includes unique field recordings as well as rare commercial recordings.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Maureen Russell
  (Updated: Apr 09 2024)

• Consequences of Migration Policy and Documentation Status
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  A key issue in migration research is understanding the effects of migration policy and documentation status in the U.S. for migrants and their families. This project examined the impact of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) on the health outcomes of Asian and Pacific Islander (API) youth in the U.S.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			May Sudhinaraset
  (Updated: Jul 02 2024)

• Latin American Mortality Database 2
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  Co-founded by UCLA Fielding School of Public Health Professor Dr. Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez, the Latin American Mortality Database is the largest data repository of mortality from 19 countries in Latin America (including data from around 1850). It now supports the study of very recent morality trends during the post-WWII period.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez
  (Updated: Sep 23 2024)

• Center for Global and Immigrant Health
  School of Public Health
  The UCLA Center for Global and Immigrant Health was established in 2008. The center is dedicated to developing and implementing collaborative approaches to research, education, and policy to improve the health of populations worldwide. The Center offers a Certificate in Global Health for students in UCLA's degree granting programs.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Anne Rimoin
  (Updated: Oct 11 2024)

• Transnational Gender and Labor Working Group
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  The Transnational Gender and Labor Working Group is a joint initiative between the UCLA Center for the Study of Women and the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. The group brings together researchers who are pushing the boundaries of how we conceptualize work and labor under capitalism.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Jennifer Chun
  (Updated: Oct 18 2024)

• African Diaspora Archaeology Lab
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  The African Diaspora Archaeology Lab supports research that explores the histories and material culture of people of African descent around the world. Current foci of the lab include the maritime and terrestrial archaeology of slavery and freedom in the Americas.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Justin Dunnavant
  (Updated: Oct 21 2024)

• Making Green Worlds: Early Modern Art and Ecologies of Globalization
  College of Letters and Science: Humanities
  Making Green Worlds is a multi-year project with collaborators from UCLA and McGill University. The project contributes to current debates about climate change that are at the forefront of public and academic discourse by re-assessing the intersection of global mobility, environmental change, and artistic invention from c.1492-1700.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Bronwen Wilson
  (Updated: Oct 30 2024)

• Islamicate Manuscripts Initiative
  UCLA Library
  This initiative will ensure that UCLA Library's remarkable Islamicate and Arabic-script manuscript collection, the second largest in North America, is accessible to scholars and the general public. The collection includes works of historical importance in medicine, literature, philology, lexicography, theology, jurisprudence, history, philosophy, logic, mysticism, astrology and astronomy.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Jennifer Osorio
  (Updated: Jan 13 2025)

• Understanding the Demographic Impacts of Solar Energy Sites on Migratory Bird Populations
  Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
  This project leverages nearly 30 years of research on migratory birds at UCLA’s Center for Tropical Research, its extensive feather collection, and the Bird Genoscape Project’s growing network of universities and partners. The project studies the demographic impact of solar energy sites on migratory bird populations.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Ryan Harrigan
  (Updated: Jan 14 2025)

• Pacific World Research Network
  International Institute
  The Pacific World Research Network (PWRN) is a joint initiative of the Latin American Institute, the Asia Pacific Center, and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at UCLA. The PWRN is a regional resource that brings together scholars doing research on Asians in Latin America and Latin Americans in Asia.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rubén Hernández-León
  (Updated: Jan 16 2025)

Education/Training

• Global Lab for Research in Action
  Luskin School of Public Affairs
  The Global Lab for Research in Action studies critical social justice issues faced by hard-to-reach populations worldwide, pursuing evidence-based solutions to critical health, education, and economic issues. They translate findings into more digestible formats and amplify the insights to deepen public understanding and promote evidence-based policy.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Manisha Shah

• WORLD Policy Analysis Center
  School of Public Health
  The WORLD Policy Analysis Center is a Fielding School-based non-profit policy research center that aims to improve the quantity and quality of globally comparative data on policies affecting human health, development, well-being, and equity by collecting and analyzing sources of information on rights, laws, and policies.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Jody Heymann

• F/EMBA International Exchange
  John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management
  The Center for Global Management partners with top business and management schools around the world to offer short-term, International Exchange courses for F/EMBA students. These courses provide an opportunity for students to learn more about another country's educational, cultural, and business environments.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Alena Kim

• Global Access Program (GAP)
  John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management
  GAP sends teams of talented professionals around the world to work with select technology companies. MBA students invest thousands of hours in research to find new growth opportunities in the U.S. market to take a company to its next level of development.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Chelsea Goossens

• Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health
  School of Public Health
  The Center promotes and supports research, training, and applied public health in the areas of population, reproductive health, and family planning. The principal focus of the program is on reproductive health issues in developing countries, where population growth rates remain high and reproductive health services are poor or inaccessible.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Rachel Veerman

• The Civil Rights Project
  Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
  The Civil Rights Project aims to renew the civil rights movement by bridging the worlds of ideas and action, be a preeminent source of intellectual capital within that movement, and deepen the understanding of the issues that must be resolved to achieve racial and ethnic equity in this century.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Gary Orfield

• International Telepathology Program
  School of Medicine
  UCLA Health has one of the largest and most experienced international telepathology programs in the world. Our experts use advanced telemedicine technology to remotely review pathology images and consult with medical teams from almost anywhere.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Jianyu Rao

• International Society of Nephrology (ISN) Sister Programs
  School of Medicine
  The ISN has two flagship programs that provide educational support and guidance to centers in need within the developing nephrology community by pairing them with established centers to form supportive partnerships.
  Project Contact:

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  Anh Tran

• Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference (WeCIEC 33)
  College of Letters and Science: Humanities
  The conference invites papers on any aspect of Indo-European studies: linguistics, archaeology, comparative mythology/poetics, culture. Papers on both interdisciplinary and specific topics (e.g., typology, methodology, reconstruction, the interpretation of material culture, etc.) are welcome.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  John Clayton

• Executive MBA International Business Residency
  John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management
  Each year there are three countries for the Executive MBA students to choose from for their travels, with destinations in Asia, South America, and Europe. While in the country, students participate in company visits, plus network with business professionals, government leaders, faculty at local universities, and local Anderson alumni.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Lucy Allard

• The Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  Housed in the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, the Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies offers students at the undergraduate and graduate level the rare opportunity to focus intensively on the study of Sephardic history and culture.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Aomar Boum

• GloCal Health Fellowship
  School of Medicine
  The GloCal Health Fellowship provides aspiring global health researchers with outstanding interdisciplinary education and training in innovative research designed to improve health for populations around the world. The GloCal Health Fellowship supports a 12-month, mentored research fellowship for investigators interested in studying diseases and conditions in developing countries.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Craig Cohen

• Center for Tropical Research
  College of Letters and Science: Physical Sciences
  The Center for Tropical Research was founded by Dr. Thomas B. Smith in 1997 as a research unit at San Francisco State University. In January 2002, CTR moved from SFSU to UCLA. CTR has expanded its research programs to more than 45 countries on six continents.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Thomas Smith

• Chemistry & Biochemistry Distinguished Lecture Series
  College of Letters and Science: Physical Sciences
  The UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Distinguished Lecture Series is a department-wide colloquium in a special week once per quarter when there are no other seminars in the department. Some of the world’s most accomplished and engaging scientists are invited to participate in the lecture series.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Neil K. Garg

• Annual Yanai Lecture
  College of Letters and Science: Physical Sciences
  In esteemed scientist Michio Yanai’s honor, the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences founded the Annual Yanai Distinguished Lecture which features esteemed guest speakers from across the globe. Every year, they discuss various global topics and issues in atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Suzanne Paulson

• Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences Colloquium
  College of Letters and Science: Physical Sciences
  The UCLA Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences Colloquium is a department-wide colloquium wherein every quarter, numerous scientists from across the globe participate as guest speakers in the lecture series. They discuss various global issues in earth sciences and topics related to their research relevant to the world today.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni

• International and Comparative Law Program Internships & Externships
  School of Law
  The program provides support to students who wish to spend a semester or summer in an externship or internship focused on international or comparative law with non-governmental organizations, international organizations, and governments.
  Project Contact:

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  Jessica Peake

• International Practice Pathway (IPP) Summer Fellowships
  Luskin School of Public Affairs
  The International Practice Pathway (IPP) of Global Public Affairs at Luskin provides financial support for first year students seeking summer placements in low and middle-income countries. Summer internships are serious professional undertakings involving recognized international organizations. Professionalism, responsibility, and respect are required of all students participating in the program.
  Project Contact:

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  Steve Commins

• The Racial Violence Hub
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  This site creates a virtual community of feminist critical race scholars, artists, activists, and organizations working on issues of racial violence and the state. The Hub’s goal is to foster research, develop critical pedagogies and share resources for anti-violence practices around state violence against Indigenous and racialized peoples.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Sherene Razack

• Red para el Estudio de la Economía Política de América Latina (REPAL)
  Luskin School of Public Affairs
  Repal is a network of researchers (institutionally affiliated with universities in Latin America, North America, and Europe) interested in promoting and giving greater visibility to new studies in the political economy of Latin America. Members of the Latin American Cities Initiative participated in the REPAL 2019 conference in New Orleans.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Paavo Monkkonen

• Comparative Social Analysis Seminar
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  This seminar discusses work in progress by visiting faculty, local faculty, and sociology graduate students. The distinctive discussion-only format, with no initial presentation by the author or assigned commentators, maximizes participation and engagement and provides for a lively intellectual exchange. Each session is followed by informal discussion.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Roger Waldinger

• Sketch to Screen
  School of Theater, Film, and Television
  Sketch to Screen panelists engage in a thought-provoking panel discussion about the central role costume designers play in cinematic storytelling. Audience members are given an invaluable look into some of the most successful creative minds in Hollywood.
  Project Contact:

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  Natasha Rubin

• Asian Performing Arts on Stage and On Screen
  UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
  This annual three-day hybrid symposium highlights the diversity of Asian performing arts through presentations and performances in various media, including panel presentations, film screenings with discussion, lecture-demonstrations on musical instruments, and live staged performances of music, dance, and puppetry. Performances include Javanese shadow puppets and Philippine kulintang music and dance.
  Project Contact:

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  UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

• UFAHAMU: A Journal of African Studies
  International Institute
  Ufahamu is an interdisciplinary Journal of African Studies committed to publishing views about social issues, addressing both the general reader and the scholar. Ufahamu continues to challenge and correct misconceptions about Africa and the African diaspora, thereby creating relevant criteria for African Studies and African Diasporic Studies.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Brisa Smith-Flores

• African Arts Journal
  International Institute
  African Arts presents original research and critical discourse on traditional, contemporary, and popular African arts and expressive cultures. Since 1967, the journal has reflected the dynamism and diversity of several fields of humanistic study, publishing richly illustrated articles in full color, incorporating the most current theory, practice, and intercultural dialogue.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Sheila Breeding

• Forum of Mathematics, Pi
  College of Letters and Science: Physical Sciences
  Forum of Mathematics, Pi and Forum of Mathematics, Sigma are fully open access journals published by Cambridge University Press. The journals provide a platform for international collaboration as they welcome research papers from all parts of pure mathematics and related areas written by researchers from across the globe, including UCLA.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Mario Bonk

• USAID/PEPFAR HIV Care and Treatment Program
  School of Medicine
  USAID’s overall goal is to support and sustain the achievement of HIV epidemic control by providing global leadership in the development of programs that maximize impact, supporting country-led strategies, and using science, technology, and innovation to support cost-effective, sustainable, and appropriately integrated HIV/AIDS interventions at scale.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Risa Hoffman

• Global Health Selective
  School of Medicine
  The Global Health Selective, offered through the UCLA Center for World Health, is a student-led elective course that aims to expose students to various global health topics.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Fola May

• Global Immersion Courses
  John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management
  Concentrating on the school’s target regions of Asia and Latin America, the Center for Global Management offers four-unit global immersion elective courses designed to expose students to a country’s economy, political environment, and major industries and businesses.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Joanna Danielak

• Visionaries International
  School of Medicine
  The goal of non-profit organization Visionaries International, founded by Dr. Aldave in 2008, is to reduce the burden of corneal blindness in the developing world through corneal transplant surgical skill transfer and eye bank development. Recently, Dr. Aldave and his collaborators have been awarded a UCLA Global Health Seed Grant.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Anthony Aldave

• Center for Global and Immigrant Health
  School of Public Health
  The UCLA Center for Global and Immigrant Health was established in 2008. The center is dedicated to developing and implementing collaborative approaches to research, education, and policy to improve the health of populations worldwide. The Center offers a Certificate in Global Health for students in UCLA's degree granting programs.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Anne Rimoin

• Intercultural Improvisation Ensemble
  UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
  The Intercultural Improvisation Ensemble experiments with different world music styles and traditions. Musical compositions, often by students in the ensemble, blend different musical instruments representing diverse world areas, and the elements of improvisation play an essential role in the creation of new and/or traditional pieces of music.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Steve Loza

Service

• Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health
  School of Public Health
  The Center promotes and supports research, training, and applied public health in the areas of population, reproductive health, and family planning. The principal focus of the program is on reproductive health issues in developing countries, where population growth rates remain high and reproductive health services are poor or inaccessible.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Rachel Veerman

• International Telepathology Program
  School of Medicine
  UCLA Health has one of the largest and most experienced international telepathology programs in the world. Our experts use advanced telemedicine technology to remotely review pathology images and consult with medical teams from almost anywhere.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Jianyu Rao

• International Society of Nephrology (ISN) Sister Programs
  School of Medicine
  The ISN has two flagship programs that provide educational support and guidance to centers in need within the developing nephrology community by pairing them with established centers to form supportive partnerships.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Anh Tran

• Center for Tropical Research
  College of Letters and Science: Physical Sciences
  The Center for Tropical Research was founded by Dr. Thomas B. Smith in 1997 as a research unit at San Francisco State University. In January 2002, CTR moved from SFSU to UCLA. CTR has expanded its research programs to more than 45 countries on six continents.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Thomas Smith

• The Racial Violence Hub
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  This site creates a virtual community of feminist critical race scholars, artists, activists, and organizations working on issues of racial violence and the state. The Hub’s goal is to foster research, develop critical pedagogies and share resources for anti-violence practices around state violence against Indigenous and racialized peoples.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Sherene Razack

• Developing a New Approach to Migration and Policy-Making in Africa
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  The project aims to develop a core set of policy-making principles and guidelines for governing migration that both center migrant agency, and to apply these guidelines to southern Africa in order to produce substantive recommendations for the region, as well as to illustrate the practical value of the general method.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Tendayi Achiume

• Global Solidarity Project
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  The Global Solidarity Project believes that in a global economy, unions and workers must come together across borders. The project aims to build international partnerships among labor leaders and scholars and conduct key research to improve labor standards and working conditions throughout the world.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Kent Wong

• Visionaries International
  School of Medicine
  The goal of non-profit organization Visionaries International, founded by Dr. Aldave in 2008, is to reduce the burden of corneal blindness in the developing world through corneal transplant surgical skill transfer and eye bank development. Recently, Dr. Aldave and his collaborators have been awarded a UCLA Global Health Seed Grant.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Anthony Aldave

• Waystation Initiative
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  Housed under the UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, the Waystation Initiative at UCLA is a groundbreaking endeavor that organizes and facilitates the voluntary return of international archaeological and ethnographic objects to the nation or community of origin. The Initiative comprises a suite of programs and resources, including community engagement workshops.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Lyssa Stapleton

• Center for Global and Immigrant Health
  School of Public Health
  The UCLA Center for Global and Immigrant Health was established in 2008. The center is dedicated to developing and implementing collaborative approaches to research, education, and policy to improve the health of populations worldwide. The Center offers a Certificate in Global Health for students in UCLA's degree granting programs.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Anne Rimoin

• Transnational Gender and Labor Working Group
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  The Transnational Gender and Labor Working Group is a joint initiative between the UCLA Center for the Study of Women and the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. The group brings together researchers who are pushing the boundaries of how we conceptualize work and labor under capitalism.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Jennifer Chun

• Islamicate Manuscripts Initiative
  UCLA Library
  This initiative will ensure that UCLA Library's remarkable Islamicate and Arabic-script manuscript collection, the second largest in North America, is accessible to scholars and the general public. The collection includes works of historical importance in medicine, literature, philology, lexicography, theology, jurisprudence, history, philosophy, logic, mysticism, astrology and astronomy.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Jennifer Osorio

School of the Arts and Architecture

• Art|Sci Center
  Research
  The Art|Sci Center's mission is "to pursue, facilitate and promote research and programs that demonstrate the potential of media arts and science collaborations." The Art|Sci Center focuses on collaborative projects that address social, ethical and environmental issues related to scientific innovations.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Victoria Vesna
  (Updated: Mar 17 2023)

Graduate School of Education and Information Studies

• The Civil Rights Project
  Research, Education
  The Civil Rights Project aims to renew the civil rights movement by bridging the worlds of ideas and action, be a preeminent source of intellectual capital within that movement, and deepen the understanding of the issues that must be resolved to achieve racial and ethnic equity in this century.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Gary Orfield
  (Updated: Jan 26 2023)

School of Engineering and Applied Science

• Named Data Networking
  Research|
  Researchers at UCLA's Center for Research in Engineering, Media and Performance contribute to the ongoing work of the Named Data Networking (NDN) project. The project aims to develop a new Internet architecture that can capitalize on strengths — and address weaknesses — of the Internet’s current host-based, point-to-point communication architecture.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Lixia Zhang
  (Updated: Mar 17 2023)

School of Law

• International and Comparative Law Program Internships & Externships
  Education, EducationAbroadProgram
  The program provides support to students who wish to spend a semester or summer in an externship or internship focused on international or comparative law with non-governmental organizations, international organizations, and governments.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Jessica Peake
  (Updated: Apr 07 2023)

• Foreign Legal Study & Exchange Program
  ExchangeProgram
  UCLA Law offers opportunities for its students and those in other countries to gain insights into the legal systems and policies of different nations. UCLA Law has partnered with 16 leading academic institutions in Europe, Asia, Israel, Australia and South America to establish the Foreign Legal Study and Exchange Program.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Tiffany Parnell
  (Updated: Dec 12 2023)

College of Letters and Science: Humanities

• Águilas: A documentary film
  Research|
  Along the southern desert border in Arizona, it is estimated that only one out of every five missing migrants are ever found. Águilas is the story of one group of searchers, the Aguilas del Desierto.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Maite Zubiaurre
  (Updated: Feb 10 2023)

• Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference (WeCIEC 33)
  Research| Education|
  The conference invites papers on any aspect of Indo-European studies: linguistics, archaeology, comparative mythology/poetics, culture. Papers on both interdisciplinary and specific topics (e.g., typology, methodology, reconstruction, the interpretation of material culture, etc.) are welcome.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			John Clayton
  (Updated: Feb 15 2023)

• Viterbi Program in Mediterranean Jewish Studies
  Research|
  UCLA funded a pilot program in Italian Jewish studies in 2004 and created the Viterbi Family Endowment in Mediterranean Jewish Studies in 2008. The program looks beyond traditional political boundaries in order to understand transnational commercial and intellectual connections between different groups of people.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Sarah Stein
  (Updated: Feb 27 2023)

• California Working Group on Jews in the Maghrib and Middle East
  Research|
  The California Working Group on Jews in the Maghrib and Middle East (CalJeMM) was founded in the fall of 2015 with the goal of creating an intellectual community to promote academic research in Middle Eastern Jewish Studies and adjacent fields. CalJeMM members meet regularly to share work in progress.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Sarah Stein
  (Updated: Feb 27 2023)

• Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
  Research|
  The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) represents the efforts of an international group of Assyriologists, museum curators and historians of science to make available through the internet the form and content of cuneiform inscriptions dating from the beginning of writing, ca. 3350 BC, until the end of the pre-Christian era.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Jacob Dahl
  (Updated: Mar 03 2023)

• Indigenous Material and Visual Culture in the Americas, circa 1450–1750 CE
  Research|
  IMVCA is an interdisciplinary working group aimed at facilitating the study of indigenous cultural productions from across the Americas: South, Central, and North. Although there is an early modern focus, the group often expands its chronological scope. IMVCA meetings seek to provide a space for engagement between disciplines and geographic
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Stella Nair
  (Updated: Apr 19 2023)

• Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Collection
  Research|
  Richard and Mary Rouse have spent their lives studying the history, production, and use of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, and the history of the libraries through which these manuscripts passed. Over the years, they have gathered an impressive manuscript collection of their own, and have donated the collection to UCLA.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Zrinka Stahuljak
  (Updated: Apr 26 2023)

• CMRS-CEGS/LAMAR Methodology Seminars
  Research|
  These Seminars give UCLA students a chance to meet and interact with prominent authorities in the field of Medieval and Renaissance Studies. These classes receive funding from CMRS to bring distinguished scholars to UCLA to participate in seminars and symposia, to present lectures, and to have informal discussions with students.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Zrinka Stahuljak
  (Updated: Aug 07 2023)

• Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies Core Program
  Research|
  Every year, the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies hosts a core conference program, a series of interdisciplinary events around a common theme. The program often features workshops, symposia, graduate seminars, and public lectures. Past themes include Iberian Globalization, the British Atlantic, Japanese Art, and Persian Learning.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Stella Nair
  (Updated: Nov 03 2023)

• Making Green Worlds: Early Modern Art and Ecologies of Globalization
  Research|
  Making Green Worlds is a multi-year project with collaborators from UCLA and McGill University. The project contributes to current debates about climate change that are at the forefront of public and academic discourse by re-assessing the intersection of global mobility, environmental change, and artistic invention from c.1492-1700.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Bronwen Wilson
  (Updated: Oct 30 2024)

John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management

• F/EMBA International Exchange
  Education
  The Center for Global Management partners with top business and management schools around the world to offer short-term, International Exchange courses for F/EMBA students. These courses provide an opportunity for students to learn more about another country's educational, cultural, and business environments.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Alena Kim
  (Updated: Jan 24 2023)

• Global Access Program (GAP)
  Research, Education
  GAP sends teams of talented professionals around the world to work with select technology companies. MBA students invest thousands of hours in research to find new growth opportunities in the U.S. market to take a company to its next level of development.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Chelsea Goossens
  (Updated: Jan 26 2023)

• Executive MBA International Business Residency
  Education
  Each year there are three countries for the Executive MBA students to choose from for their travels, with destinations in Asia, South America, and Europe. While in the country, students participate in company visits, plus network with business professionals, government leaders, faculty at local universities, and local Anderson alumni.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Lucy Allard
  (Updated: Feb 16 2023)

• Global Immersion Courses
  Education
  Concentrating on the school’s target regions of Asia and Latin America, the Center for Global Management offers four-unit global immersion elective courses designed to expose students to a country’s economy, political environment, and major industries and businesses.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Joanna Danielak
  (Updated: Aug 07 2023)

School of Medicine

• International Telepathology Program
  Education| Service|
  UCLA Health has one of the largest and most experienced international telepathology programs in the world. Our experts use advanced telemedicine technology to remotely review pathology images and consult with medical teams from almost anywhere.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Jianyu Rao
  (Updated: Feb 03 2023)

• International Society of Nephrology (ISN) Sister Programs
  Education| Service|
  The ISN has two flagship programs that provide educational support and guidance to centers in need within the developing nephrology community by pairing them with established centers to form supportive partnerships.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Anh Tran
  (Updated: Feb 03 2023)

• GloCal Health Fellowship
  Research| Education|
  The GloCal Health Fellowship provides aspiring global health researchers with outstanding interdisciplinary education and training in innovative research designed to improve health for populations around the world. The GloCal Health Fellowship supports a 12-month, mentored research fellowship for investigators interested in studying diseases and conditions in developing countries.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Craig Cohen
  (Updated: Mar 01 2023)

• The UCLA Metabolomics and Proteomics Shared Resource
  Research|
  The UCLA Metabolomics and Proteomics Shared Resource was established in the spring of 2013. The mission of the center is to develop and apply cutting-edge approaches for quantitative metabolomics and proteomics.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Thomas Graeber
  (Updated: Mar 01 2023)

• USAID/PEPFAR HIV Care and Treatment Program
  Research| Education|
  USAID’s overall goal is to support and sustain the achievement of HIV epidemic control by providing global leadership in the development of programs that maximize impact, supporting country-led strategies, and using science, technology, and innovation to support cost-effective, sustainable, and appropriately integrated HIV/AIDS interventions at scale.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Risa Hoffman
  (Updated: Aug 07 2023)

• Global Health Selective
  Education|
  The Global Health Selective, offered through the UCLA Center for World Health, is a student-led elective course that aims to expose students to various global health topics.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Fola May
  (Updated: Aug 07 2023)

• Visionaries International
  Education| Service|
  The goal of non-profit organization Visionaries International, founded by Dr. Aldave in 2008, is to reduce the burden of corneal blindness in the developing world through corneal transplant surgical skill transfer and eye bank development. Recently, Dr. Aldave and his collaborators have been awarded a UCLA Global Health Seed Grant.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Anthony Aldave
  (Updated: Aug 07 2023)

• International Skeletal Dysplasia Registry
  Research|
  We work with families, physicians, and researchers from around the world to classify skeletal disorders radiographically, histologically, and genetically. Understanding the genetic defect and biological pathways involved in specific skeletal disorders is assisting in the development of diagnoses, treatments, and improved patient care.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Daniel Cohn
  (Updated: Nov 03 2023)

School of Public Health

• WORLD Policy Analysis Center
  Research| Education|
  The WORLD Policy Analysis Center is a Fielding School-based non-profit policy research center that aims to improve the quantity and quality of globally comparative data on policies affecting human health, development, well-being, and equity by collecting and analyzing sources of information on rights, laws, and policies.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Jody Heymann
  (Updated: Jan 23 2023)

• Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health
  Research| Education| Service|
  The Center promotes and supports research, training, and applied public health in the areas of population, reproductive health, and family planning. The principal focus of the program is on reproductive health issues in developing countries, where population growth rates remain high and reproductive health services are poor or inaccessible.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rachel Veerman
  (Updated: Jan 26 2023)

• Center for Global and Immigrant Health
  Research| Education| Service|
  The UCLA Center for Global and Immigrant Health was established in 2008. The center is dedicated to developing and implementing collaborative approaches to research, education, and policy to improve the health of populations worldwide. The Center offers a Certificate in Global Health for students in UCLA's degree granting programs.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Anne Rimoin
  (Updated: Oct 11 2024)

Luskin School of Public Affairs

• Global Lab for Research in Action
  Research, Education
  The Global Lab for Research in Action studies critical social justice issues faced by hard-to-reach populations worldwide, pursuing evidence-based solutions to critical health, education, and economic issues. They translate findings into more digestible formats and amplify the insights to deepen public understanding and promote evidence-based policy.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Manisha Shah
  (Updated: Jan 20 2023)

• International Practice Pathway (IPP) Summer Fellowships
  Education, EducationAbroadProgram
  The International Practice Pathway (IPP) of Global Public Affairs at Luskin provides financial support for first year students seeking summer placements in low and middle-income countries. Summer internships are serious professional undertakings involving recognized international organizations. Professionalism, responsibility, and respect are required of all students participating in the program.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Steve Commins
  (Updated: Apr 07 2023)

• Red para el Estudio de la Economía Política de América Latina (REPAL)
  Research, Education
  Repal is a network of researchers (institutionally affiliated with universities in Latin America, North America, and Europe) interested in promoting and giving greater visibility to new studies in the political economy of Latin America. Members of the Latin American Cities Initiative participated in the REPAL 2019 conference in New Orleans.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Paavo Monkkonen
  (Updated: May 08 2023)

School of Theater, Film, and Television

• Sketch to Screen
  Education|
  Sketch to Screen panelists engage in a thought-provoking panel discussion about the central role costume designers play in cinematic storytelling. Audience members are given an invaluable look into some of the most successful creative minds in Hollywood.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Natasha Rubin
  (Updated: May 12 2023)

International Institute

• Institut des Amériques
  Research
  The Institut des Amériques is a French institute that promotes “Americanist” research, meaning studies that pertain to all three Americas: South, Central, and North. The IdA maintains a multidisciplinary network of researchers and universities throughout the world.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Bryan Pitts
  (Updated: May 17 2023)

• UFAHAMU: A Journal of African Studies
  Research, Education
  Ufahamu is an interdisciplinary Journal of African Studies committed to publishing views about social issues, addressing both the general reader and the scholar. Ufahamu continues to challenge and correct misconceptions about Africa and the African diaspora, thereby creating relevant criteria for African Studies and African Diasporic Studies.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Brisa Smith-Flores
  (Updated: Aug 07 2023)

• African Arts Journal
  Research, Education
  African Arts presents original research and critical discourse on traditional, contemporary, and popular African arts and expressive cultures. Since 1967, the journal has reflected the dynamism and diversity of several fields of humanistic study, publishing richly illustrated articles in full color, incorporating the most current theory, practice, and intercultural dialogue.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Sheila Breeding
  (Updated: Aug 07 2023)

• Pacific World Research Network
  Research
  The Pacific World Research Network (PWRN) is a joint initiative of the Latin American Institute, the Asia Pacific Center, and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at UCLA. The PWRN is a regional resource that brings together scholars doing research on Asians in Latin America and Latin Americans in Asia.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rubén Hernández-León
  (Updated: Jan 16 2025)

Institute of the Environment and Sustainability

• Antarctica and Climate Change
  Research|
  Raphael has been studying Antarctica’s sea ice and the complex set of atmospheric factors that influence it — and are influenced by it — for more than two decades. Still, answering the critical question of whether the recent historic low is the result of global warming will require further research.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Marilyn Raphael
  (Updated: May 24 2023)

• Understanding the Demographic Impacts of Solar Energy Sites on Migratory Bird Populations
  Research|
  This project leverages nearly 30 years of research on migratory birds at UCLA’s Center for Tropical Research, its extensive feather collection, and the Bird Genoscape Project’s growing network of universities and partners. The project studies the demographic impact of solar energy sites on migratory bird populations.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Ryan Harrigan
  (Updated: Jan 14 2025)

College of Letters and Science: Physical Sciences

• Center for Tropical Research
  Research| Education| Service|
  The Center for Tropical Research was founded by Dr. Thomas B. Smith in 1997 as a research unit at San Francisco State University. In January 2002, CTR moved from SFSU to UCLA. CTR has expanded its research programs to more than 45 countries on six continents.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Thomas Smith
  (Updated: Mar 08 2023)

• Chemistry & Biochemistry Distinguished Lecture Series
  Research| Education|
  The UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Distinguished Lecture Series is a department-wide colloquium in a special week once per quarter when there are no other seminars in the department. Some of the world’s most accomplished and engaging scientists are invited to participate in the lecture series.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Neil K. Garg
  (Updated: Mar 15 2023)

• Annual Yanai Lecture
  Research| Education|
  In esteemed scientist Michio Yanai’s honor, the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences founded the Annual Yanai Distinguished Lecture which features esteemed guest speakers from across the globe. Every year, they discuss various global topics and issues in atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Suzanne Paulson
  (Updated: Mar 15 2023)

• Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences Colloquium
  Research| Education|
  The UCLA Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences Colloquium is a department-wide colloquium wherein every quarter, numerous scientists from across the globe participate as guest speakers in the lecture series. They discuss various global issues in earth sciences and topics related to their research relevant to the world today.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni
  (Updated: Mar 20 2023)

• Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA)
  Research|
  ANITA is a balloon-borne experiment designed to fly over Antarctica to study cosmic UHE neutrinos. The project provides an exciting window into very high energy physical phenomena like the generation of micro-black holes and other exotic occurrences that could demonstrate the unity of forces in the universe.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Andrea Ghez
  (Updated: Apr 06 2023)

• Gemini Planet Imager (GPI)
  Research|
  The GPI project is a collaboration involving the American Museum of Natural History, the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, JPL, the Univ. of Montreal, the Institut National d’Optique, UCB, UCSC/UCO and UCLA. This instrument is designed for direct imaging and low-resolution spectroscopy of young planets around nearby stars using high-contrast AO.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			James Larkin
  (Updated: Apr 06 2023)

• The South Pole Telescope Project
  Research|
  The South Pole Telescope Project is built to observe the temperature and polarization of the cosmic microwave background. This provides information on the origin and history of the universe, with the project's main science goals including the properties of light stable particles and the nature of the universe's first structures.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Andrea Ghez
  (Updated: Apr 07 2023)

• LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Project
  Research|
  The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) project is a dark matter experiment selected by the Department of Energy as the flagship U.S. dark matter experiment. It is located deep underground, at the 4850' level of the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota. The research project has numerous collaborators from across the globe.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Alvine Kamaha
  (Updated: Apr 07 2023)

• Forum of Mathematics, Pi
  Research| Education|
  Forum of Mathematics, Pi and Forum of Mathematics, Sigma are fully open access journals published by Cambridge University Press. The journals provide a platform for international collaboration as they welcome research papers from all parts of pure mathematics and related areas written by researchers from across the globe, including UCLA.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Mario Bonk
  (Updated: Aug 07 2023)

College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences

• UCLA Sephardic Archive Initiative
  Research
  The initiative aims to reverse the historic neglect of the Sephardi past by working with partners in the UCLA Library Special Collections to identify collections of interest and use these collections to share the history and culture of Sephardic California with students, scholars, and an international user public
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Chris Silver
  (Updated: May 27 2022)

• The Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies
  Research, Education
  Housed in the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, the Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies offers students at the undergraduate and graduate level the rare opportunity to focus intensively on the study of Sephardic history and culture.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Aomar Boum
  (Updated: Feb 23 2023)

• California Center for Population Research: Migration and Immigration
  Research
  Migration has been part of almost all human history, but its nature, scale, and complexity in today’s globalized world make it increasingly consequential. Migration and immigration are intertwined with socioeconomic, cultural, political, legal, and other demographic dynamics shaping the well-being of migrants and the sending and receiving societies.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Andrés Villarreal
  (Updated: Mar 08 2023)

• The Racial Violence Hub
  Research, Education, Service
  This site creates a virtual community of feminist critical race scholars, artists, activists, and organizations working on issues of racial violence and the state. The Hub’s goal is to foster research, develop critical pedagogies and share resources for anti-violence practices around state violence against Indigenous and racialized peoples.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Sherene Razack
  (Updated: Apr 25 2023)

• East Asian Lab
  Research
  The East Asian Lab is directed by Lothar von Falkenhausen, used primarily by graduate students to conduct independent research projects.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Lothar von Falkenhausen
  (Updated: Apr 28 2023)

• Zooarchaeology Lab
  Research
  The Zooarchaeology Lab was established in 1989 in order to facilitate the identification and analysis of animal remains from archaeological sites. To date the lab has conducted over 300 separate projects from six continents.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Thomas Wake
  (Updated: Apr 28 2023)

• Comparative Social Analysis Seminar
  Research, Education
  This seminar discusses work in progress by visiting faculty, local faculty, and sociology graduate students. The distinctive discussion-only format, with no initial presentation by the author or assigned commentators, maximizes participation and engagement and provides for a lively intellectual exchange. Each session is followed by informal discussion.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Roger Waldinger
  (Updated: May 08 2023)

• Developing a New Approach to Migration and Policy-Making in Africa
  Research, Service
  The project aims to develop a core set of policy-making principles and guidelines for governing migration that both center migrant agency, and to apply these guidelines to southern Africa in order to produce substantive recommendations for the region, as well as to illustrate the practical value of the general method.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Tendayi Achiume
  (Updated: May 08 2023)

• Global Solidarity Project
  Research, Service
  The Global Solidarity Project believes that in a global economy, unions and workers must come together across borders. The project aims to build international partnerships among labor leaders and scholars and conduct key research to improve labor standards and working conditions throughout the world.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Kent Wong
  (Updated: May 08 2023)

• Consequences of Migration Policy and Documentation Status
  Research
  A key issue in migration research is understanding the effects of migration policy and documentation status in the U.S. for migrants and their families. This project examined the impact of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) on the health outcomes of Asian and Pacific Islander (API) youth in the U.S.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			May Sudhinaraset
  (Updated: Jul 02 2024)

• Waystation Initiative
  Service
  Housed under the UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, the Waystation Initiative at UCLA is a groundbreaking endeavor that organizes and facilitates the voluntary return of international archaeological and ethnographic objects to the nation or community of origin. The Initiative comprises a suite of programs and resources, including community engagement workshops.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Lyssa Stapleton
  (Updated: Sep 19 2024)

• Latin American Mortality Database 2
  Research
  Co-founded by UCLA Fielding School of Public Health Professor Dr. Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez, the Latin American Mortality Database is the largest data repository of mortality from 19 countries in Latin America (including data from around 1850). It now supports the study of very recent morality trends during the post-WWII period.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez
  (Updated: Sep 23 2024)

• Transnational Gender and Labor Working Group
  Research, Service
  The Transnational Gender and Labor Working Group is a joint initiative between the UCLA Center for the Study of Women and the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. The group brings together researchers who are pushing the boundaries of how we conceptualize work and labor under capitalism.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Jennifer Chun
  (Updated: Oct 18 2024)

• African Diaspora Archaeology Lab
  Research
  The African Diaspora Archaeology Lab supports research that explores the histories and material culture of people of African descent around the world. Current foci of the lab include the maritime and terrestrial archaeology of slavery and freedom in the Americas.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Justin Dunnavant
  (Updated: Oct 21 2024)

UCLA International Education Office

• Virtual Internships
  GlobalInternshipProgram
  The UCLA Global Internship provides you an opportunity to intern at a company or organization abroad from the comfortable confines of your own home! With project-based work, you will have the ability to make an impact at your internship site, while gaining remote work experience and preparing yourself for
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Andrew Bottom
  (Updated: May 12 2023)

UCLA Library

• Islamicate Manuscripts Initiative
  Research| Service|
  This initiative will ensure that UCLA Library's remarkable Islamicate and Arabic-script manuscript collection, the second largest in North America, is accessible to scholars and the general public. The collection includes works of historical importance in medicine, literature, philology, lexicography, theology, jurisprudence, history, philosophy, logic, mysticism, astrology and astronomy.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Jennifer Osorio
  (Updated: Jan 13 2025)

UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

• Asian Performing Arts on Stage and On Screen
  Education
  This annual three-day hybrid symposium highlights the diversity of Asian performing arts through presentations and performances in various media, including panel presentations, film screenings with discussion, lecture-demonstrations on musical instruments, and live staged performances of music, dance, and puppetry. Performances include Javanese shadow puppets and Philippine kulintang music and dance.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
  (Updated: May 17 2023)

• Ethnomusicology Archive
  Research
  The UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive is a world-renowned research archive dedicated to the study of musical traditions from around the globe. The Archive’s collection of more than 150,000 audio, video, print, and photographic items documents musical expressions throughout the world and includes unique field recordings as well as rare commercial recordings.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Maureen Russell
  (Updated: Apr 09 2024)

• Intercultural Improvisation Ensemble
  Education
  The Intercultural Improvisation Ensemble experiments with different world music styles and traditions. Musical compositions, often by students in the ensemble, blend different musical instruments representing diverse world areas, and the elements of improvisation play an essential role in the creation of new and/or traditional pieces of music.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Steve Loza
  (Updated: Dec 13 2024)