Research

Education/Training

Service

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
College of Letters and Science: Humanities
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
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
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)
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)
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 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)

Archived Projects/Programs

UCLA Study Abroad

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  • International and Comparative Law Program Internships & Externships
    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.

    Website

  • International Practice Pathway (IPP) Summer Fellowships
    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.

    Website

  • Foreign Legal Study & Exchange Program
    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.

    Website

  • Virtual Internships
    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

    Website

Defining Terms


Projects/Programs

  • The projects and programs on this map constitute our “global data.” We define global data to be information related to “global topics” such as events, activities, and geographical areas outside of the United States. Any project or program conducted in an area outside of the United States is included on the map, as it speaks to UCLA’s direct engagement with the global community. Even if a project or program is conducted domestically, it is included as long as it engages with one or more global topics.

  • To collect data for the Projects/Programs map, we survey faculty on their research pursuits. We also explore UCLA websites such as faculty profiles, research centers, and department pages to learn about past and ongoing projects. We periodically review our data, archiving and removing projects and programs that have concluded or expired.

Study Abroad

  • Click here for the International Education Office’s explanation of UCLA’s various Study Abroad Programs.

  • To collect data on Study Abroad Programs, we explore both UC Education Abroad Programs (UCEAP) and UCLA websites to find information on opportunities offered at or through UCLA.

Collaborations

  • International Collaboration comprises memoranda of understanding (MOUs), collaboration agreements (CAs), affiliation agreements (AAs), and student exchange agreements. Click here for UCLA Global’s explanation of these terms.

  • We source this data from the UCLA Global database of international academic agreements.

Students

  • Here, “Students” refers to International Students as well as Study Abroad students.


Visitors

  • Visitors are guests whose visits are coordinated by the International Visitors Bureau (IVB). Click here for more information.

  • We source this data directly from the IVB.


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