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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.

Laure Murat, an award-winning author, came to UCLA as a professor of French and Francophone studies after taking a nontraditional route to a Ph.D.

UCLA professor Teresa McCarty has done extensive work with Native-American communities on language education policy and youth language and literacy learning.

For the last 18 years, UCLA’s Lisa Snyder has been bringing to life the bygone glory of a true architectural, social and cultural wonder — the Chicago World’s Fair.

Ely Guerra, an internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter from Mexico, came to UCLA to meet with students, discuss issues with a Spanish class studying Mexican cultures and perform in a free concert as a UC Regents Lecturer.

Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Toni Morrison is scheduled to be awarded the UCLA Medal — the campus’s highest honor.

UCLA Byzantine art history and archaeology professor Sharon Gerstel has devoted much of the last year to studying how architectural changes in Byzantine churches enhanced the performance of religious music.

“Treasured Textiles” traces the flowering of three different weaving traditions.

Zuni Map Art displays how the Zuni see their own history, their ancestral migrations and the parts of nature that sustain them.

A record number of students from all over the world recently completed Anderson School of Management's annual MEMES Summer Institutes.

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.

Richard Creese has spent 31 years teaching UCLA students to write. Now the author of eight unpublished novels is the embodiment of the lesson that persistence pays off.

Folklore scholar Tim Tangherlini has organized a large collection into a database that can be searched by topic, storyteller and location.

A year-long focus will be the massive contribution of women in all art forms. The season begins Oct. 8 with “Desdemona.”

In an exhibition opening May 3, hair adornments and a contemporary film address changing ideas of beauty and identity in Africa.

“Making Strange: Gagawaka + Postmortem by Vivan Sundaram” and “The Sahmat Collective: Art and Activism in India since 1989” both open April 19.

UCLA French and Francophone professor Alain Mabanckou is one of 10 authors worldwide who have been selected as finalists for this year’s Man Booker International Prize.

Students from the UCLA Lab School recently learned about the creative process of K.G. Campbell, the award-winning author and illustrator of “Lester’s Dreadful Sweaters” and “The Mermaid and the Shoe.” The event was presented by UCLA Writing Programs,

The UCLA Latin American Institute is presenting a lecture on chocolate and other community outreach activities to share the latest research findings on the Latin American region with L.A. residents.

Upcoming exhibition will showcase photographs documenting monumental art environments created by artists who find inspiration in their surroundings.

“The Excavation of the Prehistoric Burial Tumulus at Lofkënd, Albania” by UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology’s John Papadopoulos and Sarah Morris opens a window on a cradle of civilization.

Magnetic media, which are deteriorating, make up half of the holdings in archive. To save the most significant materials that are relevant to California the archive has begun posting them online.

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.

Intrigued by the question of whether Augustus Caesar transformed Rome from a city of bricks into a city of marble, as legend has it, UCLA professor Diane Favro decided to use advanced modeling software to reconstruct Rome at the time of his reign.