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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.

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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.

Center for 17th- and 18th- Century Studies, Clark Library welcome new director and head librarian
Beginning July 1, Barbara Fuchs, a professor in the Departments of English and Spanish and Portuguese, will be the new director while curator Gerald Cloud will become the new head librarian of the Clark Library on August 15.

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Interwoven Threads and Connections
English scholar Jenny Sharpe focuses on the writings of the Caribbean to expose the creative and imaginative force of literature.

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Environmentally Aware through Shakespeare
English scholar Robert Watson explores how attitudes about the natural world that developed
during the Renaissance shape our thinking about the environment today.

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Defining, Not Defying, Logic
In nearly 60 years at UCLA—first as a student and then a renowned faculty member in the philosophy department—David Kaplan has won kudos for his scholarship, his teaching, and his "boyish enthusiasm that is a delight to witness."

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.

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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.

So fascinating to watch
Linguistics scholar Megha Sundara studies an age old mystery of human development: the seemingly effortless ability of infants to learn how to speak and understand language.

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Art historian, critic brings to light work of artists in shadows
UCLA art historian and Professor George Baker often examines the work of marginalized artists. This year, the art critic's essays are featured parts of four different museum exhibits.

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Loving Berlin to Bits
Germanic languages scholar Todd Presner leads a team of faculty who are building a digital view of one of the world’s most dynamic cities - with applications that can be expanded to create new understanding of the evolution of regions around the globe.

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Studying Food with the Seasoning of History
A scholar deeply steeped in Italian culture makes surprising discoveries and offers intriguing speculations about the history of food.

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.

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.

Robert Buswell

Buddhists, neuroscientists come to a meeting of the minds
The Center for Buddhist Studies, the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, and the International Institute sponsored the "Buddhism and Neuroscience: a Discussion on Attention, Mental Flexibility and Compassion" symposium at Royce Hall on May 2.

Challenging the concepts of art,
Art historian Miwon Kwon reexamines the conventional notions of the definition and purpose of art.

A new voice for the “old and the dead”,
Egyptologist Kara Cooney combines a scholar’s approach to research with zeal for bringing her work to contemporary audiences.

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Rediscovering the Untold Treasures
Shane Butler, Debora Shuger, and many other UCLA scholars are creating a new view of Latin studies by focusing attention on the incredible wealth of unstudied material that appeared centuries after the Roman Empire.

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