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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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French scholar from UCLA awarded 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship
Laure Murat, an associate professor of French and Francophone studies at UCLA, has been named a 2012 Guggenheim Fellow.

For this acclaimed writer, Southern California is the perfect hideaway
Following on the heels of his bestselling third novel, “Memoirs” firmly establishes Alain Mabanckou as a force to be reckoned with in the French-speaking world.

Gil Z. Hochberg receives Mellon Foundation's New Directions Fellowship
Gil Z. Hochberg, an associate professor of comparative literature and women’s studies, has become the third UCLA professor since 2006 to receive a New Directions Fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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.

Students to study little-known scholarly language of the Renaissance
A poem written in Neo-Latin on syphilis is part of UCLA Library's collection of early Italian printed materials.

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.