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Teofilo Ruiz President Obama to present UCLA professor with prestigious National Humanities Medal
UCLA's Teofilo F. Ruiz, an internationally recognized historian whose work focuses on medieval Spain and Europe, will be awarded the National Humanities Medal, President Barack Obama has announced.

"I was greatly surprised," said Ruiz, a distinguished professor in the UCLA departments of history and of Spanish and Portuguese, of his selection. "I felt the honor — a great honor — was undeserved and very much unexpected."

Ruiz has published, or has in press, 13 books and has written more than 60 articles in scholarly journals and hundreds of reviews and smaller articles.
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Long Before The Pharaohs
An archaeological find in Egypt is providing a major breakthrough in understanding the people of the New Stone Age.
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The Complexity of Emotion
Harryette Mullen, professor of English and winner of the 2010 Jackson Prize for Poetry, uses her writings to explore globalism, the African American experience, women’s issues, and a love of wordplay.
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Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative receives Mellon Foundation grant
Worldwide in scope, this project, directed since 2000 by Robert K. Englund, produces high-quality digital images, text transcriptions and increasingly more translations of cuneiform records for specialists as well as for informal learners.
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David Schaberg David Schaberg appointed interim dean of humanities
Professor David Schaberg, chair of the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, has been appointed interim dean of the Division of Humanities by Chancellor Gene Block. A member of the faculty since 1996, Schaberg has served as chair of the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures and as co-director of the Center for Chinese Studies.

Schaberg earned his B.A. in Humanities Special Programs from Stanford University in 1986 and his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (Chinese, Greek, Latin) in 1996 from Harvard University.
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New Humanities Residential College

The new Humanities Residential College in partnership with the Office of Residential Life provides UCLA students with the opportunity to combine their interests in an academic field in the Humanities with their residential life on campus.

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