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Among the topics discussed at the inaugural UCLA-Tata Global Forum in New Delhi were sustainable megacities, the integration of solar power into smart energy grids and sustainable biological fuels.

UCLA Chancellor Gene Block and Vice Provost for International Studies and Global Engagement Cindy Fan led a campus delegation to Asia earlier this month for three forums that brought together alumni and supporters with local leaders.

With help from faculty and students at UCLA and Waseda University in Tokyo, UCLA professor Michael Emmerich has developed and launched an app to teach students to read premodern calligraphy used in classical Japanese texts.

Professor Bhagwan Chowdhry writes that Narendra Modi should leverage his country’s connections to Silicon Valley to make it easier for educated IT professionals to return to India and help implement the Digital India initiative.

Students learning Japanese are enjoying a collection of new reading materials at the East Asian Library that includes manga. The 500-volume collection is the result of efforts by librarians and administrators at UCLA’s Asia Institute.

The inaugural UCLA Global Forums held recently in Hong Kong, Taipei and Tokyo offered alumni, parents and students living in East Asia a chance to hear from campus leaders and discuss issues of importance to them.

The gift will go toward the Terasaki Center’s program endowment allowing for new initiatives that focus on community engagement.

Deborah Cohen's research took her to extreme heights — 13,000 feet in altitude to be precise — as she explored the thematic depths of the work produced by the Gedun Choephel Artists’ Guild.

The UCLA Center for World Health and its partners currently participate in 170 projects in 65 countries worldwide. It focuses not only on education, training and capacity building to improve health, but projects also include research and clinical care initiatives.

On the 40th anniversary of the Khmer Rouge’s proclamation of victory in Cambodia, UCLA demographer Patrick Heuveline has produced new estimates of the regime’s death toll between 1975 and 1979.

Michael Emmerich, an associate professor of Japanese at UCLA, has translated the work of the late Japanese author Yasushi Inoue and opened readers' eyes to his compelling stories.

Video, photos, interviews and mapping tools capture the extent of damage remaining four years after the 2011 quake and tsunami. The data will help other areas prepare.

Policymakers, scholars and business leaders from Australia and the United States will explore the implications of the economic rise of the region at the event cohosted by the UCLA International Institute.

UCLA’s Hitoshi Abe is among those whose work is featured in an exhibit detailing nontraditional ways architects have helped rebuild the coast of Eastern Japan following the devastating tsunami of 2011.

Lokubanda Tillakaratne has spent more than three decades helping his former village in many different ways. Now he's published a book of facts, figures, interviews and personal recollections of life there.

Lucretia Stinnette, a graduate student filmmaker in the School of Theater, Film and Television, made a short film about a mail-order bride from Vietnam after teaching English in South Korea to such women.

Four centers — the Latin American Institute, the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, the Asia Institute and the National Heritage Language Resource Center — received Title VI funding for area and language studies.

A $2.5 million gift from Tadashi Yanai will help transform UCLA’s Department of Asian Languages and Cultures into one of the world’s leading centers for the study of Japanese literature and culture.

In his latest documentary, “Bitter Honey,” UCLA anthropologist Robert Lemelson tracks the abuses suffered by wives trapped in polygamous marriages.

M.B.A. students took on the challenge to craft a business plan that cuts costs and increases training productivity.

UCLA information studies professor Michelle Caswell’s new book examines the ethical questions of archiving and displaying documentation of human rights violations and atrocities.

New faculty have expertise that help redirect UCLA’s approach to Japanese studies, to include study of anime, manga and other Japanese popular culture.