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Disney mermaids aren’t the only wondrous creatures ‘under the sea’

On the eve of the ‘Little Mermaid’ premiere, a UCLA doctoral…
Ava+Boehm

A movement of her own

Graduating senior Ava Boehm designed her own major to further…
Randall Park

Randall Park to deliver UCLA College commencement address

The multihyphenate performer and activist will speak June 16…
Michelle Yeoh in Everything Everywhere All at Once

Diversity takes a step back in theatrical films – but strides forward in streaming

UCLA Hollywood Diversity Report shows diverse casts continue…
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Celebrate Pi Day with a slice of UCLA PIES

In honor of 3/14, we spotlight a unique humanities program focused…
Sarah Haley

Sarah Haley receives Marguerite Casey Foundation Freedom Scholars Award

UCLA Newsroom | January 24, 2023 Sarah Haley, an associate…
Graduates wearing caps and gowns at the 2-18 American Indian Studies graduation ceremony at UCLA.

To enhance Indigenous scholarship, UCLA formally establishes American Indian studies department

The goal is eventually to increase the Native student, faculty…

Professor’s book spotlights legacy of Mexican political organizers in the American West

Kelly Lytle Hernández’s ‘Bad Mexicans’ comes at a time…
Image of Manuscript of religious commentary. In this image, al-Taftāzānī’s sharḥ (commentary) on al-Nasafī’s al-ʿAqāʾid al-Nasafīyya (the creed of an-Nasafī) can be seen within the textblock. In the marginalia and between the text, glosses on this commentary and intertextual references by several different scholars can be found.

Students make remarkable finds in UCLA’s ‘Encountering Arabic Manuscripts’ course

The collaboration between the Islamic studies program and UCLA…
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$1.2 million from Kachigian family trust establishes UCLA lectureship in Armenian studies

Armenian language scholar Hagop Kouloujian has been appointed…