Research

• Enlightened Relations: Art without Common Sense in late 18th– and early 19th-Century Britain and colonial South Asia
  College of Letters and Science: Humanities
  Dr. Chowdhury's current book project traces within the intertwined networks of British and South Asian art and visual culture an alternative history to the late Enlightenment conceptualization of sympathy.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Zirwat Chowdhury
  (Updated: Jan 08 2022)

• The Philodemus Project
  College of Letters and Science: Humanities
  The Philodemus Project is an international effort which aims, supported by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and by the generous contributions of individuals and participating universities, to reconstruct new texts of Philodemus' works on Poetics, Rhetoric, and Music.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			David Blank
  (Updated: Jan 23 2023)

• The Mosfell Archaeological Project
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  The Mosfell Archaeological Project is an international research project employing the tools of history, archaeology, anthropology, genetics, saga studies and environmental sciences to construct a comprehensive picture of human adaptation and environmental change in the Mosfell region of southwestern Iceland beginning in the Viking Age.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Jesse Byock
  (Updated: Jan 27 2023)

• Irish and Scottish Enlightenment(s) Reading Group
  College of Letters and Science: Humanities
  This group will read and discuss works by Irish and Scottish writers of the long Eighteenth Century, including works from literature, moral philosophy, political theory, and other fields. The group is open to graduate students and faculty throughout the Los Angeles area, and anyone interested in the discussed work.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Donald Marshall
  (Updated: Feb 15 2023)

• Atomic model of a nonenveloped virus reveals pH sensors for a coordinated process of cell entry
  College of Letters and Science: Life Sciences
  Professors Xing Zhang and Z. Hong Zhou collaborated with researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on their publication detailing the identification of pH sensors in an atomic model of a nonenveloped virus.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Z. Hong Zhou
  (Updated: Feb 15 2023)

• Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI): Understanding Scenes and Events through Joint Parsing, Cognitive Reasoning and Lifelong Learning
  College of Letters and Science: Physical Sciences
  A multi-disciplinary MURI team from the US and UK is working on a project to develop machines that can achieve deep understanding of scenes and events, represent visual knowledge in probabilistic compositional models, acquire massive visual commonsense, and understand human needs and values to interact with humans effectively.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Song-Chun Zhu
  (Updated: Mar 08 2023)

• Diviner Lunar Radiometer
  College of Letters and Science: Physical Sciences
  The Diviner Lunar Radiometer is one of seven instruments aboard NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft. Diviner’s measurements are also used to map compositional variations, derive subsurface temperatures, assess the stability of potential polar ice deposits, and infer landing hazards such as roughness and rock abundance.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			David Paige
  (Updated: Mar 08 2023)

• Environmental Science Without Borders (ESWB)
  College of Letters and Science: Physical Sciences
  Environmental Science Without Borders (ESWB) is a multinational peer-mentorship program developed for students and scientists across different continents so they can come together, learn from one another, and develop together in the field of environmental science.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Adeyemi Adebiyi
  (Updated: Mar 10 2023)

• Panorama Mass Spectrometer
  College of Letters and Science: Physical Sciences
  The Panorama project began in 2010 as a collaboration between UCLA, Carnegie Science's Geophysical Laboratory, and Nu Instruments (United Kingdom). The goal was to construct a gas-source isotope ratio mass spectrometer capable of separating multiply-substituted isotopologues of various gases with high fidelity.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Edward D. Young
  (Updated: Mar 20 2023)

• Early Modern Research Group
  College of Letters and Science: Humanities
  The Early Modern Research Group comprises faculty and graduate students at UCLA. The Works-in-Progress Workshop series provides a forum for advanced graduate students and junior faculty at UCLA and neighboring institutions to workshop ongoing projects invested in the history, literature, and cultures of the early modern world.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rhonda Sharrah
  (Updated: Apr 19 2023)

• Dating Beowulf: Studies in Intimacy
  College of Letters and Science: Humanities
  Dr. Weaver’s book project playfully redeploys “dating”—a verb that usually heralds some of the most divisive critical impasses in early medieval studies—to provocatively phrase a set of new relationships with an Old English poem.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Erica Weaver
  (Updated: May 18 2023)

• The Hermeneutics of Distraction: Arts of Attention in Early Medieval England
  College of Letters and Science: Humanities
  Dr. Weaver's book unites Benedictine monasticism, asceticism, literary form, and affect studies. She argues that distraction and its threats were central in the development of early medieval literature and literary theory.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Erica Weaver
  (Updated: May 18 2023)

• Imagining Futures through Un/Archived Pasts
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  Acts of archiving that draw on local knowledges and joint decision-making in what is to be remembered or forgotten, have a unique authority. They counter, stereotypes, gentrification, discrimination, and the lack of appreciation for shared histories and of community’s place in the global context.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Tawny Paul
  (Updated: Aug 07 2023)

• Forum of Mathematics, Pi
  College of Letters and Science: Physical Sciences
  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)

• Kama Muta Lab
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  The Kama Muta Lab focuses on the emotion often called "being moved" or "touched." The program integrates participant observation ethnography, broad ethnological and historical comparison, systematic sampling of behavior, and experimentation, in addition to conducting theoretical work.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Alan Fiske
  (Updated: Sep 01 2023)

• Voices of Pre-Industrial Siberia
  UCLA Library
  The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the digitization, contextualization and sharing of a collection of tape recordings of indigenous people of the North. This project will digitize the Siberian Arctic collection, and digitally share the results both through new media technologies and visits to indigenous source communities.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rachel Deblinger
  (Updated: Oct 23 2023)

• Ancient and Modern Communities at Industria
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  The main focus of the project is a diachronological study of communities and their environment. Starting with present day Monteu da Po, ancient Industria, the project explores traditional farming, industry, and daily life of the inhabitants of the region through time, going back to the Roman Period.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Hans Barnard
  (Updated: Jan 26 2024)

• The Enriched Timeline Project
  College of Letters and Science: Humanities
  The Enriched Timeline Project is an online reference that offers a series of interactive graphic timelines that chart the evolution of select monuments in European architecture from their inception up to the present day. The Enriched Timeline’s interactive (searchable) capacity facilitates and encourages comparisons between buildings across time and space.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Meredith Cohen
  (Updated: Oct 09 2024)

Education/Training

• Irish and Scottish Enlightenment(s) Reading Group
  College of Letters and Science: Humanities
  This group will read and discuss works by Irish and Scottish writers of the long Eighteenth Century, including works from literature, moral philosophy, political theory, and other fields. The group is open to graduate students and faculty throughout the Los Angeles area, and anyone interested in the discussed work.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Donald Marshall

• Forum of Mathematics, Pi
  College of Letters and Science: Physical Sciences
  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

Service

• Environmental Science Without Borders (ESWB)
  College of Letters and Science: Physical Sciences
  Environmental Science Without Borders (ESWB) is a multinational peer-mentorship program developed for students and scientists across different continents so they can come together, learn from one another, and develop together in the field of environmental science.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Adeyemi Adebiyi

College of Letters and Science: Humanities

• Enlightened Relations: Art without Common Sense in late 18th– and early 19th-Century Britain and colonial South Asia
  Research|
  Dr. Chowdhury's current book project traces within the intertwined networks of British and South Asian art and visual culture an alternative history to the late Enlightenment conceptualization of sympathy.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Zirwat Chowdhury
  (Updated: Jan 08 2022)

• The Philodemus Project
  Research|
  The Philodemus Project is an international effort which aims, supported by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and by the generous contributions of individuals and participating universities, to reconstruct new texts of Philodemus' works on Poetics, Rhetoric, and Music.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			David Blank
  (Updated: Jan 23 2023)

• Irish and Scottish Enlightenment(s) Reading Group
  Research| Education|
  This group will read and discuss works by Irish and Scottish writers of the long Eighteenth Century, including works from literature, moral philosophy, political theory, and other fields. The group is open to graduate students and faculty throughout the Los Angeles area, and anyone interested in the discussed work.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Donald Marshall
  (Updated: Feb 15 2023)

• Early Modern Research Group
  Research|
  The Early Modern Research Group comprises faculty and graduate students at UCLA. The Works-in-Progress Workshop series provides a forum for advanced graduate students and junior faculty at UCLA and neighboring institutions to workshop ongoing projects invested in the history, literature, and cultures of the early modern world.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rhonda Sharrah
  (Updated: Apr 19 2023)

• Dating Beowulf: Studies in Intimacy
  Research|
  Dr. Weaver’s book project playfully redeploys “dating”—a verb that usually heralds some of the most divisive critical impasses in early medieval studies—to provocatively phrase a set of new relationships with an Old English poem.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Erica Weaver
  (Updated: May 18 2023)

• The Hermeneutics of Distraction: Arts of Attention in Early Medieval England
  Research|
  Dr. Weaver's book unites Benedictine monasticism, asceticism, literary form, and affect studies. She argues that distraction and its threats were central in the development of early medieval literature and literary theory.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Erica Weaver
  (Updated: May 18 2023)

• The Enriched Timeline Project
  Research|
  The Enriched Timeline Project is an online reference that offers a series of interactive graphic timelines that chart the evolution of select monuments in European architecture from their inception up to the present day. The Enriched Timeline’s interactive (searchable) capacity facilitates and encourages comparisons between buildings across time and space.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Meredith Cohen
  (Updated: Oct 09 2024)

College of Letters and Science: Life Sciences

• Atomic model of a nonenveloped virus reveals pH sensors for a coordinated process of cell entry
  Research
  Professors Xing Zhang and Z. Hong Zhou collaborated with researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on their publication detailing the identification of pH sensors in an atomic model of a nonenveloped virus.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Z. Hong Zhou
  (Updated: Feb 15 2023)

College of Letters and Science: Physical Sciences

• Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI): Understanding Scenes and Events through Joint Parsing, Cognitive Reasoning and Lifelong Learning
  Research|
  A multi-disciplinary MURI team from the US and UK is working on a project to develop machines that can achieve deep understanding of scenes and events, represent visual knowledge in probabilistic compositional models, acquire massive visual commonsense, and understand human needs and values to interact with humans effectively.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Song-Chun Zhu
  (Updated: Mar 08 2023)

• Diviner Lunar Radiometer
  Research|
  The Diviner Lunar Radiometer is one of seven instruments aboard NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft. Diviner’s measurements are also used to map compositional variations, derive subsurface temperatures, assess the stability of potential polar ice deposits, and infer landing hazards such as roughness and rock abundance.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			David Paige
  (Updated: Mar 08 2023)

• Environmental Science Without Borders (ESWB)
  Research| Service|
  Environmental Science Without Borders (ESWB) is a multinational peer-mentorship program developed for students and scientists across different continents so they can come together, learn from one another, and develop together in the field of environmental science.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Adeyemi Adebiyi
  (Updated: Mar 10 2023)

• Panorama Mass Spectrometer
  Research|
  The Panorama project began in 2010 as a collaboration between UCLA, Carnegie Science's Geophysical Laboratory, and Nu Instruments (United Kingdom). The goal was to construct a gas-source isotope ratio mass spectrometer capable of separating multiply-substituted isotopologues of various gases with high fidelity.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Edward D. Young
  (Updated: Mar 20 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

• The Mosfell Archaeological Project
  Research
  The Mosfell Archaeological Project is an international research project employing the tools of history, archaeology, anthropology, genetics, saga studies and environmental sciences to construct a comprehensive picture of human adaptation and environmental change in the Mosfell region of southwestern Iceland beginning in the Viking Age.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Jesse Byock
  (Updated: Jan 27 2023)

• Imagining Futures through Un/Archived Pasts
  Research
  Acts of archiving that draw on local knowledges and joint decision-making in what is to be remembered or forgotten, have a unique authority. They counter, stereotypes, gentrification, discrimination, and the lack of appreciation for shared histories and of community’s place in the global context.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Tawny Paul
  (Updated: Aug 07 2023)

• Kama Muta Lab
  Research
  The Kama Muta Lab focuses on the emotion often called "being moved" or "touched." The program integrates participant observation ethnography, broad ethnological and historical comparison, systematic sampling of behavior, and experimentation, in addition to conducting theoretical work.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Alan Fiske
  (Updated: Sep 01 2023)

• Ancient and Modern Communities at Industria
  Research
  The main focus of the project is a diachronological study of communities and their environment. Starting with present day Monteu da Po, ancient Industria, the project explores traditional farming, industry, and daily life of the inhabitants of the region through time, going back to the Roman Period.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Hans Barnard
  (Updated: Jan 26 2024)

UCLA International Education Office

• Domestic and Foreign Politics in Europe
  TravelStudyProgram
  Analyze European politics from the UK to Belgium, the Netherlands to France. Examine the individual systems of governments and the role played by these countries in world politics. The program includes visits to governmental agencies such as the EU and the Dutch Parliament.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Barry O'Neill
  (Updated: Mar 30 2022)

• English: London - City of Transformations
  TravelStudyProgram
  This program is an opportunity to gain an intimate knowledge of London, discovering the psychogeography of the contemporary capital while recovering the hidden traces of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, such as the churches of Nicholas Hawksmoor.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Saree Makdisi
  (Updated: Mar 31 2022)

• Business and Entrepreneurship in London
  EducationAbroadProgram
  Take your business ideas to London, one of the world’s top financial centers. Designed by UC and delivered by British professors, this program has a distinct entrepreneurial focus. Examine the current state of business and work in London and learn how small ideas grow into big global companies.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Kelly Zuniga
  (Updated: May 09 2023)

• Global Cities, Urban Realities
  EducationAbroadProgram
  Experience life in London and Paris, two of the most epic cities in the world. In this action-packed program, you’ll discover the cultures, social movements, and politics of both countries. Courses span topics in health, immigration, national identity, and human rights.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Kelly Zuniga
  (Updated: May 10 2023)

• London's Calling
  EducationAbroadProgram
  London is an electrifying city with unmatched influence on today’s world scene. Designed by UC and delivered by British professors, the transnational curriculum puts a spotlight on British culture, politics, and identity.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Kelly Zuniga
  (Updated: May 10 2023)

• Sotheby's Institute of Art, London
  EducationAbroadProgram
  Turn your passion for art into an exciting career at the Sotheby's Institute of Art in London and gain an inside view of the business behind the art. Train with historians, curators, lawyers, marketers, and faculty while taking classes steps away from the British Museum and National Gallery.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Kelly Zuniga
  (Updated: May 11 2023)

• Summer at London School Of Economics
  EducationAbroadProgram
  Give your future a boost at one of Europe’s most prestigious schools. Choose from more than 100 courses in business, finance, politics, and management, learning by way of lectures and interactive seminars with about 15 students.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Kelly Zuniga
  (Updated: May 11 2023)

• Summer at Sotheby's Institute of Art
  EducationAbroadProgram
  Take in London’s major art collections, museums, and galleries as you unlock the secrets of the international art world. This compact four-week summer program is for art lovers, creators, and anyone interested in the business behind the art. Explore various perspectives that include curating, collecting, and financing art collections.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Kelly Zuniga
  (Updated: May 11 2023)

• Summer at University College London
  EducationAbroadProgram
  Spend the summer in iconic London. University College London, the most popular English university for UC students, offers a large selection of summer courses for a variety of majors. Program activities include cultural excursions, shows in the West End, comedy nights, day trips outside of London, and a boat party.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Kelly Zuniga
  (Updated: May 11 2023)

• Summer in Cambridge
  EducationAbroadProgram
  Cambridge, a university town with a winding river and leafy green meadows, has been home to prime ministers, writers, and scientists. More like a university with a city around it, Cambridge hosts buildings that have remained unchanged for centuries.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Kelly Zuniga
  (Updated: May 11 2023)

• Summer in Oxford
  EducationAbroadProgram
  Exeter College offers the best of an Oxford education in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and STEM disciplines. During this 6-week summer program, small, discussion-based classes and engaged faculty provide an intellectually and culturally stimulating environment, which students rave about.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Kelly Zuniga
  (Updated: May 11 2023)

• Summer in Sussex
  EducationAbroadProgram
  Minutes from the sparkling seafront, Sussex is quintessentially English, with spectacular castles, greenery, and attractions fit for royals. Whatever your major, this summer program delivers a full English university experience.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Kelly Zuniga
  (Updated: May 11 2023)

• University of Sussex
  EducationAbroadProgram
  The University of Sussex is a large university with a range of courses in development and global studies, business, physics, psychology, humanities, and media arts. A flexible approach allows you to design your own study abroad program by matching modules across various subject areas.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Kelly Zuniga
  (Updated: May 23 2023)

• University of St Andrews
  EducationAbroadProgram
  If a medieval university with a picturesque bay surrounded by cliffs on the shore of the North Sea sounds like your jam, welcome to the University of St Andrews. You'll keep charming traditions like wearing colorful robes at various times of the year or jumping into the North Sea.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Kelly Zuniga
  (Updated: May 23 2023)

• University of Manchester
  EducationAbroadProgram
  The most applied-to university in the UK, the University of Manchester is popular with British and international students. If you’re looking for a university renowned for engineering and sciences, but don’t want full-time big city life, Manchester’s the place for you.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Kelly Zuniga
  (Updated: May 23 2023)

• University of London, Royal Holloway
  EducationAbroadProgram
  University of London, Royal Holloway, is in the Surrey countryside on the top of a hill near the rural, commuter town of Egham. The university is known for performing arts, athletics, and a wide range of courses in science and the social sciences.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Kelly Zuniga
  (Updated: May 23 2023)

• University of London, Queen Mary
  EducationAbroadProgram
  University of London, Queen Mary, (QMUL) offers all the advantages of living and studying in an iconic world capital. Research and teaching go hand-in-hand at QMUL, especially for subject areas from robotics to artificial intelligence to gene therapy. At QMUL, you’ll find excellent courses in any major.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Kelly Zuniga
  (Updated: May 23 2023)

• University of Glasgow
  EducationAbroadProgram
  Glasgow's free attractions—from the GoMa, to Riverside Museum, and the Botanics—are the gift that keeps giving. Craft your full-time course schedule based on your academic needs, and attend class with local Scots and international students from all over the world.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Kelly Zuniga
  (Updated: May 23 2023)

• University of Edinburgh
  EducationAbroadProgram
  Occupying the northern part of the island of the United Kingdom, Scotland is a land of wide open sky and lonely landscapes of high cliffs and crashing waves. Craft your full-time course schedule based on your academic needs, and attend class with local Scots and other international students.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Kelly Zuniga
  (Updated: May 23 2023)

• University of Bristol
  EducationAbroadProgram
  The University of Bristol is an innovative university that has tackled global issues like climate change, infection and immunity, human rights, and cryptography. Engineering students will find many course are throughout the academic year. A UNESCO City of Film, Bristol is an exceptional location for film, media, and art majors.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Kelly Zuniga
  (Updated: May 23 2023)

• University College London
  EducationAbroadProgram
  University College London (UCL) is one of Britain’s top universities and the most radical; it has received awards that recognize their progressive work practice. Craft your full-time course schedule at University College London (UCL) based on your academic needs and attend class with local Brits.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Kelly Zuniga
  (Updated: May 23 2023)

• Sussex Summer Physics
  EducationAbroadProgram
  At the University of Sussex, mere minutes from one of the most famous seafronts in the world, you can take undergraduate physics courses that are hard to get at many UC campuses. This calculus-based academic program delivers a firm foundation in physical concepts and principles, including kinematics, dynamics, fluids, elasticity,
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Kelly Zuniga
  (Updated: May 24 2023)

• Environment and Sustainability, East Anglia
  EducationAbroadProgram
  The University of East Anglia has been a pioneer in climate research for half a century, as evidenced by its interdisciplinary courses focused on climate change, environmental policy, resource management, and conservation. Students attend class with local Brits and international students.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Kelly Zuniga
  (Updated: May 26 2023)

• Imperial College London
  ExchangeProgram
  The Imperial College program is a year-long experience at a one-of-a-kind university in central London. The city is home to millions of foreign-born residents, making it one of the most multicultural cities in the world. This program is open to engineering, computer science, and Earth science majors.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Kelly Zuniga
  (Updated: May 26 2023)

UCLA Library

• Voices of Pre-Industrial Siberia
  Research|
  The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the digitization, contextualization and sharing of a collection of tape recordings of indigenous people of the North. This project will digitize the Siberian Arctic collection, and digitally share the results both through new media technologies and visits to indigenous source communities.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rachel Deblinger
  (Updated: Oct 23 2023)