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Celebrating 50 years!
Karen Umemoto sees the UCLA Asian American Studies Center as source of memory, progress and most importantly, access.
The center, its collaborators and collections, seeks to preserve the experiences, struggles and accomplishments of Asian American peoples from multiple backgrounds, a mission that is uniquely served at UCLA amid a city that is home to communities of Japanese, Chinese, Koreans, Pilipinos, South and Southeast Asians, Pacific Islanders and others.
“The center is not only a legacy institution, but continues to carve new terrain for the field and our future,” said Umemoto, who currently holds the Helen and Morgan Chu Endowed Director’s Chair of the Asian American Studies Center, which is part of UCLA’s Institute of American Cultures. All four of UCLA’s ethnic studies centers, which together make up the institute, are marking their 50th anniversary alongside UCLA’s centennial year.
For all its achievements in its first half century, Umemoto knows there is more to be done. Her plan is to expand access to knowledge and influence on behalf of the constituencies that demanded its creation in 1969, and that, despite progress, still face many of the same challenges and stereotypes.
UCLA’s Asian American Studies Center is the largest and one of the longest-running research centers of its kind in the United States with more than 60 affiliated faculty. It offers more than 30 research grants, scholarships and academic prizes each year. The center publishes two journals annually, “Amerasia Journal” and “AAPI Nexus,” as well as books, almanacs, directories, biographies and reports. It is also home to robust special collections and archives particularly related to Asian Americans and their experiences.
“We have all this research, but so much of it stuck behind a paywall or otherwise out of reach,” said Umemoto, who is also a professor of urban planning. “We’ve produced a lot of new knowledge, but we haven’t moved the needle enough when it comes to sharing it with the rest of the world. Access to what university ethnic studies centers and departments produce is so often limited to the privilege of college elites.”
To break down those barriers, the center recently launched the “Asian American Studies in Every Home” digital initiative with the creation of a media platform that will make ethnic studies scholarship, archives and curricular materials freely available to educators. It will include digital archives, narrative content, multimedia resources, and curriculum templates for secondary and post-secondary school students packaged in an open-access, easy-to-use online format.
The online interface, called “Storybooks,” could be employed for all kinds of research, publications and topics in all ethnic studies disciplines, she said.
“We have a lot to offer and want to make sure teachers have the ability to access information that will help them share accurate and compelling perspectives of people from Asian and Pacific Islander backgrounds,” Umemoto said. “I really believe in the power of knowledge in quelling misconceptions and building a more inclusive society.”
Courtesy Umemoto family
Physical education class at Manzanar, one of the U.S. concentration camps for Japanese Americans during WWII. Hank Umemoto, father of UCLA professor of Asian American studies Karen Umemoto, is on the far right at age 14.
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The first storybook focuses on the book “Mountain Movers: Student Activism and the Emergence of Asian American Studies,” created in collaboration among UCLA, San Francisco State University and UC Berkeley about the concurrent founding of Asian American studies centers at all three schools in 1969, starting at San Francisco State.
The book is a collection of oral histories from nine remarkable student leaders reflecting on their tenacious efforts to advance curriculum and research imperatives that would address intersecting challenges facing their communities.
One of the essays in “Mountain Movers” is by UCLA alumna Amy Uyematsu, who while attending UCLA found some of the first classes offered at any university that addressed the experience of Asian Americans, including Japanese Americans after the World War II internment camps. These classes helped Uyematsu channel her rage at the inequities her own family faced around that time and the pervasive racism she experienced growing up in predominately white towns as a third-generation Japanese person. In high school, her fellow students didn’t believe her when Uyematsu told them about the Manzanar internment camp, because the forced relocation of Japanese Americans to prison camps wasn’t being taught yet as part of WWII history.
Uyematsu joined the fight for more research, teaching and community involvement, pushing against the stereotype of Asian Americans as complacent or content to be high academic achievers but second-class citizens. She became one of the first staff members of the Asian American Studies Center.
More than the ‘model minority’
“We rejected the image of Asian Americans as a ‘model minority’ — something which we are still fighting against 50 years later,” she wrote. “Being able to fight inequities through education would prove thrilling, challenging and fulfilling.”
Asian American students definitely continue to face the narrative of being academic overachievers, said Erin Khuê Ninh, a fellow and visiting scholar at the center. She’s working on a book titled “Passing for Perfect: College Impostors and Other Model Minorities.”
Mike Fricano/UCLA
Manzanar is now a National Historic Site.
“It’s this racialized idea that East Asians, South Asians and Southeast Asians are ‘supposed’ to live up to an academic ideal, according to U.S. society and also to many in their immigrant communities,” Ninh said. “As top students from their high schools, Asian Americans who enter UCLA, or other schools, are more than likely to have encountered the paradigm of the model minority as things they are expected, themselves, to believe and then perform.”
This narrative potentially affects a lot of students. Slightly more than 28% of undergraduates in the 2018–2019 school year were from Asian American or Pacific Islander backgrounds, according to the UCLA Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.
One of the things UCLA’s Asian American Studies Center, and Asian American Studies departments in general, provides is a new way of looking at this narrative for young scholars, Ninh said.
“They do important work in explaining why the model minority narrative exists: historically how it came to be, whom it benefits, why some people, including many Asian Americans, take it for truth,” she said. “They do life-saving work when they show what its costs, what the flip side can be, like heightened rates of anxiety, depression, suicide, an unsustainable perfectionism. All of this takes a toll on who young people are allowed to become, if they follow its dictates to the letter.”
Capturing the history of the center
Creating a space of memory through an archive that showcases the commitment and passion that drove the creation of the Asian American Studies Center in the first place, is part of ensuring the mission stays on course, Umemoto said.
One of the first things she did upon becoming director of the center in 2018 was launch an oral history project called “Collective Memories” that documents the experiences and impact of the founders of the center. The first 10 videos are already online and Umemoto plans to have 50 stories completed by the end of the 2019–2020 school year.
They were produced by the Center for EthnoCommunications, which operates under the Asian American Studies Center umbrella, and is an element that sets UCLA’s center apart from its peers. The creative digital and filmmaking enterprise was part of the center’s original work and over the years has provided support for more than 200 projects that document, preserve, and allow for the creative expression of diverse ethnic experiences.
Renee Tajima-Peña, the director of EthnoCommunications, is currently producing a PBS docuseries titled “Asian Americans,” which will air in Spring 2020. In March, the center will host a three-weekend film festival in partnership with the UCLA Film and Television Archive that opens with its premier screening.
“Visual storytelling has always been and will always be an important part of the center’s work on behalf of communities,” Umemoto said.
Another major project Umemoto has launched is called the Asian Pacific Policy Research Initiative. In November 2019, the center hosted the “Power to the People Conference” that brought together 300 students, faculty and members of local community groups for a series of talks and workshops on contemporary social issues, from immigration to gentrification. Umemoto and the center’s staff and faculty hope the conference will catalyze collaborative efforts to influence public policy and educate lawmakers to understand and address the needs of Asian American and Pacific Islander communities.
“We hope we have ignited a spark of inspiration to connect researchers with community groups in order to address problems like growing xenophobia, health disparities and homelessness,” Umemoto said.
Congratulations Class of 2020!
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We congratulate you on the difficulties you had overcome to get to where you are today. Your graduation and accomplishments are milestones that our department wishes to celebrate with you. We understand the disappointment many of you may have experienced due to commencement shifting to the virtual platform. Nevertheless, the form of celebration does not define your accomplishments, we are proud of you and we thank you for allowing us to be part of your journey here at UCLA. Please enjoy this small video that Professor Renee Tajima-Pena has helped put together in honor of you and your graduation.
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UCLA ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES DEPARTMENT OPEN POSITIONS: PART-TIME LECTURERS (NON-SENATE) FOR 2020-21
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UCLA ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES DEPARTMENT OPEN POSITIONS:
PART-TIME LECTURERS (NON-SENATE) 2020-21
The Department of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), invites applications for part-time Lecturer positions (Non-Senate) with primary responsibility in teaching interdisciplinary courses in Asian American Studies for the 2020-2021 academic year. Appointments are usually per course, on a quarter by quarter basis and we expect to need enough Lecturers to cover 18 courses. The UCLA Department of Asian American Studies offers a major, minor, a graduate concentration, and Master of Arts.
Academic appointment dates are as follows: Fall Quarter (October 1-December 31, 2020), Winter Quarter (January 1March 31, 2021), and Spring Quarter (April 1-June 30, 2021).
We are especially looking for applicants who can teach the following courses:
• History of Asian Americans (AAS 10W) [Fall Quarter]
• Contemporary Asian American Communities (AAS 20) [Fall Quarter]
• Contemporary Asian American Communities (AAS 20W) [Winter Quarter]
• Asian American Movement (AAS 40) [Spring Quarter]
• Social Science Research Methods (AAS 103) [Winter Quarter]
• Internships in Asian Pacific Communities (AAS 104B) [Fall & Spring Quarter]
• Asian American Creative Writing (AAS 112C) [Fall Quarter]
• Asian American Education and Schooling (AAS M114) [Spring Quarter]
• Asian American Social Movements (AAS M116) [Fall Quarter]
• Asian American & Pacific Islander Labor Issues (AAS M119) [Fall Quarter]
• Pilipino American Experience (AAS 133) [Fall Quarter]
• Asian American & Pacific Islander Community-Based Learning (AAS 140SL) [Fall, Winter & Spring Quarters]
• Transnational Perspectives on Asian America (AAS 170) [Spring Quarter]
• Critical Issues in US-Korea Relations (AAS 171C) [Fall Quarter]
• Critical Issues in US-Vietnam Relations (AAS 171E) [Winter Quarter]
• Special Courses in Asian American Themes (AAS 187B) or Populations and Communities (AAS 187C): We welcome applicants who can offer special topics courses that complement our curriculum.
Requirements: Applicants with a Ph.D. are preferred. Applicants who are advanced to Ph.D. candidacy or who have a M.A., M.F.A., or equivalent may be considered (currently enrolled UC students are not considered).
Application Procedure Preliminary review of applications will be conducted starting May 17, 2020. Candidates should submit the following application materials online at https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF05469 by no later than Sunday, May 31, 2020:
• Cover letter
• Curriculum Vitae
• Teaching evaluation summaries
• Course list and availability
• A paragraph description and syllabus for each proposed course
• Names and contact information of three references • Statement on Contributions to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
The University of California, Los Angeles and the Asian American Studies Department are interested in candidates who are committed to the highest standards of scholarship and professional activities, and to the development of a campus climate that supports equality and diversity. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status. For the complete University of California nondiscrimination and affirmative action policy see: UC Nondiscrimination and Affirmative Action Policy. This position is covered by a collective bargaining agreement.
Asian American Studies Center: 50 years of storytelling and countering stereotypes
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Celebrating 50 years!
Karen Umemoto sees the UCLA Asian American Studies Center as source of memory, progress and most importantly, access.
The center, its collaborators and collections, seeks to preserve the experiences, struggles and accomplishments of Asian American peoples from multiple backgrounds, a mission that is uniquely served at UCLA amid a city that is home to communities of Japanese, Chinese, Koreans, Pilipinos, South and Southeast Asians, Pacific Islanders and others.
“The center is not only a legacy institution, but continues to carve new terrain for the field and our future,” said Umemoto, who currently holds the Helen and Morgan Chu Endowed Director’s Chair of the Asian American Studies Center, which is part of UCLA’s Institute of American Cultures. All four of UCLA’s ethnic studies centers, which together make up the institute, are marking their 50th anniversary alongside UCLA’s centennial year.
For all its achievements in its first half century, Umemoto knows there is more to be done. Her plan is to expand access to knowledge and influence on behalf of the constituencies that demanded its creation in 1969, and that, despite progress, still face many of the same challenges and stereotypes.
UCLA’s Asian American Studies Center is the largest and one of the longest-running research centers of its kind in the United States with more than 60 affiliated faculty. It offers more than 30 research grants, scholarships and academic prizes each year. The center publishes two journals annually, “Amerasia Journal” and “AAPI Nexus,” as well as books, almanacs, directories, biographies and reports. It is also home to robust special collections and archives particularly related to Asian Americans and their experiences.
“We have all this research, but so much of it stuck behind a paywall or otherwise out of reach,” said Umemoto, who is also a professor of urban planning. “We’ve produced a lot of new knowledge, but we haven’t moved the needle enough when it comes to sharing it with the rest of the world. Access to what university ethnic studies centers and departments produce is so often limited to the privilege of college elites.”
To break down those barriers, the center recently launched the “Asian American Studies in Every Home” digital initiative with the creation of a media platform that will make ethnic studies scholarship, archives and curricular materials freely available to educators. It will include digital archives, narrative content, multimedia resources, and curriculum templates for secondary and post-secondary school students packaged in an open-access, easy-to-use online format.
The online interface, called “Storybooks,” could be employed for all kinds of research, publications and topics in all ethnic studies disciplines, she said.
“We have a lot to offer and want to make sure teachers have the ability to access information that will help them share accurate and compelling perspectives of people from Asian and Pacific Islander backgrounds,” Umemoto said. “I really believe in the power of knowledge in quelling misconceptions and building a more inclusive society.”
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The first storybook focuses on the book “Mountain Movers: Student Activism and the Emergence of Asian American Studies,” created in collaboration among UCLA, San Francisco State University and UC Berkeley about the concurrent founding of Asian American studies centers at all three schools in 1969, starting at San Francisco State.
The book is a collection of oral histories from nine remarkable student leaders reflecting on their tenacious efforts to advance curriculum and research imperatives that would address intersecting challenges facing their communities.
One of the essays in “Mountain Movers” is by UCLA alumna Amy Uyematsu, who while attending UCLA found some of the first classes offered at any university that addressed the experience of Asian Americans, including Japanese Americans after the World War II internment camps. These classes helped Uyematsu channel her rage at the inequities her own family faced around that time and the pervasive racism she experienced growing up in predominately white towns as a third-generation Japanese person. In high school, her fellow students didn’t believe her when Uyematsu told them about the Manzanar internment camp, because the forced relocation of Japanese Americans to prison camps wasn’t being taught yet as part of WWII history.
Uyematsu joined the fight for more research, teaching and community involvement, pushing against the stereotype of Asian Americans as complacent or content to be high academic achievers but second-class citizens. She became one of the first staff members of the Asian American Studies Center.
More than the ‘model minority’
“We rejected the image of Asian Americans as a ‘model minority’ — something which we are still fighting against 50 years later,” she wrote. “Being able to fight inequities through education would prove thrilling, challenging and fulfilling.”
Asian American students definitely continue to face the narrative of being academic overachievers, said Erin Khuê Ninh, a fellow and visiting scholar at the center. She’s working on a book titled “Passing for Perfect: College Impostors and Other Model Minorities.”
“It’s this racialized idea that East Asians, South Asians and Southeast Asians are ‘supposed’ to live up to an academic ideal, according to U.S. society and also to many in their immigrant communities,” Ninh said. “As top students from their high schools, Asian Americans who enter UCLA, or other schools, are more than likely to have encountered the paradigm of the model minority as things they are expected, themselves, to believe and then perform.”
This narrative potentially affects a lot of students. Slightly more than 28% of undergraduates in the 2018–2019 school year were from Asian American or Pacific Islander backgrounds, according to the UCLA Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.
One of the things UCLA’s Asian American Studies Center, and Asian American Studies departments in general, provides is a new way of looking at this narrative for young scholars, Ninh said.
“They do important work in explaining why the model minority narrative exists: historically how it came to be, whom it benefits, why some people, including many Asian Americans, take it for truth,” she said. “They do life-saving work when they show what its costs, what the flip side can be, like heightened rates of anxiety, depression, suicide, an unsustainable perfectionism. All of this takes a toll on who young people are allowed to become, if they follow its dictates to the letter.”
Capturing the history of the center
Creating a space of memory through an archive that showcases the commitment and passion that drove the creation of the Asian American Studies Center in the first place, is part of ensuring the mission stays on course, Umemoto said.
One of the first things she did upon becoming director of the center in 2018 was launch an oral history project called “Collective Memories” that documents the experiences and impact of the founders of the center. The first 10 videos are already online and Umemoto plans to have 50 stories completed by the end of the 2019–2020 school year.
They were produced by the Center for EthnoCommunications, which operates under the Asian American Studies Center umbrella, and is an element that sets UCLA’s center apart from its peers. The creative digital and filmmaking enterprise was part of the center’s original work and over the years has provided support for more than 200 projects that document, preserve, and allow for the creative expression of diverse ethnic experiences.
Renee Tajima-Peña, the director of EthnoCommunications, is currently producing a PBS docuseries titled “Asian Americans,” which will air in Spring 2020. In March, the center will host a three-weekend film festival in partnership with the UCLA Film and Television Archive that opens with its premier screening.
“Visual storytelling has always been and will always be an important part of the center’s work on behalf of communities,” Umemoto said.
Another major project Umemoto has launched is called the Asian Pacific Policy Research Initiative. In November 2019, the center hosted the “Power to the People Conference” that brought together 300 students, faculty and members of local community groups for a series of talks and workshops on contemporary social issues, from immigration to gentrification. Umemoto and the center’s staff and faculty hope the conference will catalyze collaborative efforts to influence public policy and educate lawmakers to understand and address the needs of Asian American and Pacific Islander communities.
“We hope we have ignited a spark of inspiration to connect researchers with community groups in order to address problems like growing xenophobia, health disparities and homelessness,” Umemoto said.
FEATURED: Angel Trazo M.A. Student on Daily Bruin
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Angel Trazo a current Asian American M.A. Student uses her talent for the arts and illustration as well as her knowledge of Asian American Studies to broaden representation in her newly published children’s book. Congratulation to Angel and her accomplishments! Read more about it here!
UCLA Newsroom Feature: Professor Jennifer J. Chun
/in NewsSociologist Studies Asian and Asian American Labor Issues
“Jennifer Chun, associate professor of Asian American studies and member of the UCLA International Institute’s teaching faculty, brings an interesting perspective and skill set to her work as a scholar: the methodological training of a sociologist, deep knowledge of the U.S. and South Korean labor movements and significant experience in Asian American community organizing.
A labor scholar who looks at both ends of the Asian American equation — labor organizing in South Korea and elsewhere in Asia, and labor organizing in Asian American immigrant communities — Chun employs an approach that examines how labor, gender, race, class and migration intersect in today’s global economy.
Chun’s interest in the South Korean labor movement and how it was addressing the challenges of precarious employment as a graduate student at Berkeley. That interest soon prompted a curiosity about the U.S. labor movement and how it was dealing with the challenges of a global neoliberal age. She soon became actively involved in the International Sociology Association, where she met international labor scholars exploring similar issues in countries across the world.
These research interests have sparked Chun’s lifelong self-education in Asian studies, starting with learning the Korean language in graduate school. While at Berkeley, Chun also plunged into Asian American community organizing, working throughout graduate school with Asian Immigrant Women Advocates in Oakland to advocate for low-income immigrant Asian women workers.
Chun’s publications include her book “Organizing at the Margins: The Symbolic Politics of Labor in South Korea and the United States,” which examines how low-wage, low-education workers engaged in informal, precarious employment organized to protect their rights in South Korea and the United States. Chun continued to follow labor protests in South Korea after publishing her first book, repeatedly traveling there to interview workers and do fieldwork. Her second book, which she is currently co-writing with colleague Ju Hui Judy Han, assistant professor of gender studies, addresses the public culture of protests in South Korea.
Read the full story here on the UCLA International Institute website.”
Disclaimer: [Story taken from UCLA Newsroom]
Part-time Lecturer (Non-Senate) for AAS40: Asian American Movement in Winter Quarter 2020
/in Jobs and InternshipsThe Department of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), invites applications for a part-time Lecturer position (Non-Senate) to teach Asian American Movement (AAS 40) during the Winter Quarter 2020. Academic appointment dates for the Winter Quarter are January 1-March 31, 2020. The UCLA Department of Asian American Studies offers a major, minor, a graduate concentration, and Master of Arts.
Requirements: Applicants with a Ph.D. are preferred. Applicants who are advanced to Ph.D. candidacy or who have a M.A., M.F.A., or equivalent may be considered (currently enrolled UC students are not eligible). Expertise with the following would be welcome for this introductory course: Asian American movement of late 1960s and 1970s; social history methods, including role of oral history, documentary films, and archival history, and analysis of primary and secondary sources; Asian American movement situated within larger frame of social change of era and interpretation of nation and society; exploration of campus- and community-based activism, service learning, and civic engagement.
Application Procedure Preliminary review of applications will be conducted starting August 16, 2019. Candidates should submit the following application materials online at https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/apply/JPF04852 by no later than Friday, August 23, 2019.
The University of California, Los Angeles and the Asian American Studies Department are interested in candidates who are committed to the highest standards of scholarship and professional activities, and to the development of a campus climate that supports equality and diversity. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status. For the complete University of California nondiscrimination and affirmative action policy see: UC Nondiscrimination and Affirmative Action Policy. This position is covered by a collective bargaining agreement.
[CSW-UCLA] 2019-2020 CSW Student Awards and Grants
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APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN FOR 2019-2020 CSW STUDENT AWARDS AND GRANTS!
CSW is now accepting applications for Graduate and Undergraduate Student Awards!
TRAVEL GRANTS FOR UCLA GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
2019-2020 DEADLINES: NOVEMBER 12, 2019 AND MARCH 30, 2020
APPLY ONLINE
Supports travel expenses related to academic or professional conference presentations and field research on women, gender, and sexuality
UCLA GRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
DEADLINE FOR ALL APPLICATIONS: MARCH 30, 2020
APPLY ONLINE
Constance Coiner Graduate Fellowship
For UCLA doctoral students engaged in research focusing on feminist and working-class issues and demonstrates excellence in teaching and a commitment to teaching as activism
$1500 Award
Elizabeth Blackwell, M.D., Graduate Award
Recognizes UCLA graduate students for an outstanding research report, master’s thesis, dissertation, or published article related to women and health or women in health-related endeavors
$1000 Award
Jean Stone Dissertation Research Fellowship
For UCLA doctoral students engaged in research on women and/or gender
$3000 Award
Paula Stone Legal Research Fellowship
For UCLA J.D., LL.M., S.J.D., or PhD students engaged in research focusing on women and the law with preference given to research on women in the criminal/legal justice system
$3000 Award
Penny Kanner Dissertation Research Fellowship
For UCLA doctoral students engaged in research on women and/or gender using historical materials and methods
$3000 Award
UCLA UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS
DEADLINE FOR ALL APPLICATIONS: MARCH 30, 2020
APPLY ONLINE
Constance Coiner Undergraduate Prize
For UCLA undergraduate students with an early interest in working-class and feminist issues as well as activist practice for social change
$750 Award
Elizabeth Blackwell, M.D., Undergraduate Award
Recognizes UCLA undergraduate students for an outstanding research report, thesis, or published article related to women and health or women in health-related endeavors
$1000 Award
Renaissance Award
For female UCLA undergraduate students whose college careers were interrupted or delayed by family and/or career obligations and encourages achievement in the pursuit of a bachelor’s degree at UCLA
$1000 Award
Questions about CSW’s Student Award and Grant Programs?
Please contact Kristina Magpayo Nyden, Management Services Officer
AAS Undergrads @ Undergraduate Research Week
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Come out and support our amazing undergraduate majors and minors as they present their research at Undergraduate Research Week!
With over 1,000 undergraduates participating in Research Poster Day on May 21st and over 100 giving oral presentations throughout the week, I hope you will be able to join us in celebrating the impressive range of undergraduate inquiry and initiative taking place at UCLA.
Undergraduate Research Week events are open to the entire campus community and general public. A complete event schedule can be found at: http://urweek.ugresearch.ucla.edu/.
Thank you to all of you who have mentored and seen our undergraduates through this process!
Origin Story (Documentary) Release
/in NewsWHAT: The release of filmmaker Kulap Vilaysack’s award-winning documentary, Origin Story
WHEN: Friday, May 10th
WHERE: Exclusively on Amazon TVOD and theatrically at the Arena Cinelounge in Hollywood May 10-17
DETAILS: When Kulap Vilaysack was 14 years old, she took her father’s side in an argument and her mother replied, “Why are you defending him? He’s not your real dad.” Twenty years later, she’s finally ready to explore what that means.
Kulap’s raw and emotional documentary will roll out on Amazon SVOD exclusively starting May 10th. In mid-June, the film will be available on Google Play, followed by iTunes, Vudu, Xbox and TubiTV.
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2019 Summer Session Courses
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