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Archived Projects/Programs

Graduate School of Education and Information Studies

The Paulo Freire Institute
- The Paulo Freire Institute seeks to gather scholars and critics of Freire’s work in permanent dialogue to foster the advancement of new theories and concrete interventions in the real world.
  Project Contact:
  Project website - Carlos A. Torres
  (Updated: Jan 26 2023)
Refugees Rights in Records (R3) Initiative
- Working both with current and historical refugee and diasporic populations, the Refugee Rights in Records Initiative encompasses multiple research projects addressing issues such as the role played by archives and storytelling in memory transmission and recovery from trauma.
  Project Contact:
  Project website - Kathy Carbone
  (Updated: Apr 07 2023)

School of Engineering and Applied Science

School of Engineering-Cyprus University of Technology MOU
- The School of Engineering and Cyprus University of Technology have a Memorandum of Understanding, outlining and specifying the two schools' collaborative efforts (e.g. joint conferences, joint research projects, and cooperation in postgraduate education and training).
  Project Contact:
  Ioanna Kakoulli
  (Updated: Dec 12 2023)
School of Engineering-CMMI Cyprus Marine and Maritime Institute MOU
- The School of Engineering and CMMI Cyprus Marine and Maritime Institute have a Memorandum of Understanding, outlining and specifying the two schools' collaborative efforts (e.g. joint conferences, joint research projects, and cooperation in postgraduate education and training).
  Project Contact:
  Ioanna Kakoulli
  (Updated: Dec 12 2023)
SeaChange - Seawater-based Carbon Removal Pilot Systems
- A research team is working to prime the oceans to trap atmospheric CO2. SeaChange, a startup born out of the technology developed at UCLA, announced that two pilot systems — one in LA and another in Singapore — will soon be operational to help mitigate the atmospheric accumulation of CO2.
  Project Contact:
  Gaurav Sant
  (Updated: Dec 12 2023)
Esteros del Ibera
- Esteros del Ibera Esteros del Ibera was an interactive installation in Buenos Aires that allowed groups of visitors to explore the landscape of the protected Ibera Wetlands in northwest Argentina. UCLA REMAP and Open Perception‘s OpenPTrack was used as the interface between the visitors’ movements and the piece’s media.
  Project Contact:
  Project website - Jeff Burke
  (Updated: Jan 10 2024)

College of Letters and Science: Humanities

John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management

UCLA-NUS Executive MBA
- The UCLA-NUS Executive MBA provides a comprehensive perspective on international business, with particular emphasis on the thriving Asia-Pacific region. In just 15 months, you will earn two world-class MBAs while sharing an unforgettable learning experience with a diverse cohort from around the world.
  Project Contact:
  Project website - Sarika Thakur
  (Updated: Dec 18 2023)
School of Management-Insper Instituto de Ensino e Pesquisa MOU
- The School of Management and Insper Instituto de Ensino e Pesquisa have a Memorandum of Understanding, outlining and specifying the two schools' collaborative efforts (e.g. joint conferences, joint research projects, and cooperation in postgraduate education and training).
  Project Contact:
  Lucy Allard
  (Updated: Mar 15 2021)
School of Management-ESSEC Executive Education Appartenant Au Groupe MOU
- The School of Management and ESSEC Executive Education Appartenant Au Groupe have a Memorandum of Understanding, outlining and specifying the two schools' collaborative efforts (e.g. joint conferences, joint research projects, and cooperation in postgraduate education and training).
  Project Contact:
  Lucy Allard
  (Updated: Mar 15 2021)

School of Medicine

School of Nursing

The Global Health Experience
- The UCLA School of Nursing offers nursing students the opportunity to participate in a health experience that extends beyond the U.S. borders to learn first-hand about health education for care providers, issues of public health and patient care access and delivery.
  Project Contact:
  Project website - Maria Ruiz
  (Updated: Dec 20 2023)
UCLA-CUHK Exchange Program
- The exchange focuses on sharing US-based health care nursing practices as they relate to health promotion, social justice, and specialty clinical content delivered in the UCLA classes. In addition, the students tour several hospitals and community sites.
  Project Contact:
  Project website - Janet Mentes
  (Updated: Dec 20 2023)
UCLA-Aino University Exchange Program
- In 2019, the School of Nursing launched its first successful summer workshop for Aino University faculty and students. Aino University is a private institution of higher education, located in the quaint city of Takasuki, Osaka Japan.
  Project Contact:
  Project website - Janet Mentes
  (Updated: Dec 20 2023)
UCLA-Sungshin University Exchange Program
- Sungshin University is a private institution of higher education, located in the metropolitan area of Seoul Korea. Sungshin University, founded in 1936, is an all women college which has been promoting student exchange programs since 1968.
  Project Contact:
  Project website - Janet Mentes
  (Updated: Dec 20 2023)
Sharing the Importance of Qualitative Research in China
- The School has been collaborating with HKSH since 2010 to enhance the quality of nursing care delivered at the bedside and in its ambulatory clinics; promote mentorship of the nurses in conducting clinical research; and enhance the evidence-based practices of HKSH nurses as well as nursing students.
  Project Contact:
  Project website - Janet Mentes
  (Updated: Dec 20 2023)

School of Public Health

School of Public Health-Shandong University MOU
- The School of Public Health and Shandong University have a Memorandum of Understanding, outlining and specifying the two schools' collaborative efforts (e.g. joint conferences, joint research projects, and cooperation in postgraduate education and training).
  Project Contact:
  Project website - Zuo-Feng Zhang
  (Updated: Dec 22 2023)
National Contact Tracing and Case Investigation Training Program
- The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and the AUA Turpanjian College of Health Sciences, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and National Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of Armenia, launched the first ever large-scale National Contact Tracing and Case Investigation Training Program for the Republic of Armenia.
  Project Contact:
  Project website - Alina Dorian
  (Updated: Jun 05 2024)
Artsakh Demographic and Health Survey
- The Poppy Project, in collaboration with AUA Turpanjian College of Health Sciences and Artsakh's Ministry of Health, conducted the first large-scale demographic and health survey in Artsakh. Surveying over 1,000 households across regions, it provided information on demographic and health parameters for nearly 5,000 individuals.
  Project Contact:
  Project website - Alina Dorian
  (Updated: Jun 05 2024)
Emergency Health Education Materials
- The Poppy Project team collaborated with the Ministry of Health and the State Ministry of the Republic of Artsakh to create emergency health education materials, on topics such as Managing Diarrhea in Children During Crisis, Hands Only CPR, Water Storage and Safety, and more.
  Project Contact:
  Project website - Alina Dorian
  (Updated: Jun 05 2024)

Luskin School of Public Affairs

School of Theater, Film, and Television

The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television/Université Côte D’Azur Storytelling Institute
- The UCLA TFT/UCA Storytelling Institute in Cannes, France is an immersive, in-residence graduate-level feature film screenwriting program designed to advance the artistry and skills of the next generation of outstanding, diverse humanistic cinematic storytellers.
  Project Contact:
  Project website - Brian Kite
  (Updated: Dec 22 2023)
Korean Language Theater in Kazakhstan
- Over 100,000 Koreans live in Kazakhstan as a result of both organic migration and forced deportations in the 1930s. This project focuses on Korean language theater in Kazakhstan.
  Project Contact:
  Suk-Young Kim
  (Updated: Dec 17 2020)
Millennial North Korea: Forbidden Media and Living Creatively with Surveillance
- This project explores how the expansion of new media technology complicates the country’s seemingly monolithic facade mired in entangled networks of technology and surveillance, intellectual property and copyrights, and the way for millennials to live creatively with censorship.
  Project Contact:
  Project website - Suk-Young Kim
  (Updated: Jul 25 2022)
Russian Theatrical Costumes and the Vestige of Empire
- This project analyzes the intersection of Russian imperialism and constuming in Russian theater.
  Project Contact:
  Suk-Young Kim
  (Updated: Dec 17 2020)
Early Bergman: Rebel Auteur inside the Swedish Studio System
- Arne Lunde is currently working on a book manuscript with the provisional title "Early Bergman: Rebel Auteur inside the Swedish Studio System." Ingmar Bergman was a groundbreaking Swedish director, screenwriter, and producer who directed over 60 films, influencing creators such as Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, and Francis Ford Coppola.
  Project Contact:
  Project website - Arne Lunde
  (Updated: Jul 25 2022)

International Institute

Institute of the Environment and Sustainability

Dja Biosphere Reserve
- During the past 20 years, scientists from the Center for Tropical Research have been conducting research in the Dja Biosphere Reserve (DBR), a UNESCO World Heritage site located in South Central Cameroon.
  Project Contact:
  Project website - Thomas Smith
  (Updated: Dec 22 2023)
Center for Tropical Research: International Research and Training Center – Ecuador
- CTR’s current studies include focused research on high profile, endangered species like the Long-wattled Umbrellabird, as well as multidisciplinary approaches to broader-level ecological and evolutionary processes and patterns. All research conducted by CTR includes Ecuadorians at various levels and is designed to provide information needed for conservation.
  Project Contact:
  Project website - Jordan Karubian
  (Updated: Mar 10 2023)

College of Letters and Science: Life Sciences

The Diversity Project
- The Diversity Project is a research-intensive educational program designed to increase the participation of underrepresented minority students in marine biology and conservation through integrated research and mentoring experience.
  Project Contact:
  Project website - Paul Barber
  (Updated: Dec 22 2023)
Titi monkey biogeography: Parallel Pleistocene spread by Plecturocebus and Cheracebus into a post-Pebas Western Amazon
- This project reconstructs the biogeographic history of titi monkeys (Callicebinae) to better understand their diversification patterns and their colonization of South America since the late Miocene. This study comprises the first large-scale investigation of the evolutionary history of titi monkeys in the context of Amazonian and South American historical biogeography.
  Project Contact:
  Project website - Jessica Lynch
  (Updated: Nov 03 2023)

College of Letters and Science: Physical Sciences

College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences

California NanoSystems Institute

Bangladesh
- Bangladesh is a South Asian country, rich in cultural heritage and history. Its vibrant traditions include music, dance, and art.
  
  The nation boasts diverse landscapes, from the lush Sundarbans mangrove forest to the vast Ganges Delta. It’s home to unique wildlife and natural beauty.
  
  Project website
  (Updated: Feb 04 2025)

UCLA Extension

UCLA Extension-Berlin School of Business MOU
- The UCLA Extension and the Berlin School of Business have a Memorandum of Understanding, outlining and specifying the two schools' collaborative efforts (e.g. joint conferences, joint research projects, and cooperation in postgraduate education and training).
  Project Contact:
  Tara Neuwirth
  (Updated: Mar 15 2021)
UCLA Extension-De Vinci Higher Education MOU
- The UCLA Extension and De Vinci Higher Education have a Memorandum of Understanding, outlining and specifying the two schools' collaborative efforts (e.g. joint conferences, joint research projects, and cooperation in postgraduate education and training).
  Project Contact:
  Tara Neuwirth
  (Updated: Mar 15 2021)

UCLA International Education Office

UCLA Library

UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

Music of Thailand Ensemble
- Students in the Music of Thailand Ensemble will learn to perform the distinctive regional music traditions from central, north (Lanna), and northeast (Isaan) Thailand on a diverse range of instruments including mallet percussion, bowed, plucked string instruments, and flutes. Students will be introduced to Thai musical notation.
  Project Contact:
  Project website - Supeena Adler
  (Updated: May 17 2023)
Music of Java Ensemble
- The Music of Java Ensemble centers on the music of Central Javanese gamelan, a percussion-dominated musical ensemble featuring tuned bronze gongs, bronze metallophones, and drums, along with flutes, zither, vocals, and spiked fiddle. The ensemble is known for rhythmic complexity and a unique feel.
  Project Contact:
  Project website - Joko Sutrisno
  (Updated: Dec 17 2024)

Project website	-		Barbara Van Nostrand
(Updated: Jul 20 2020)

Project website	-		Poomiporn Katanyuwong, MD
(Updated: Aug 12 2022)

Project website	-		Laurence Denié-Higney
(Updated: Dec 22 2023)

Project website	-		International Digital Ephemera Project
(Updated: May 24 2022)

Project website	-		Jeff Burke
(Updated: Jan 10 2024)

			Armando Guerrero
(Updated: Nov 30 2023)

			Stephanie Santana
(Updated: Jan 21 2021)

			William M. Bodiford
(Updated: Apr 15 2021)