Two UCLA Luskin faculty members are among 16 recipients of the inaugural Global Education Awards for Internationalizing Curriculum, launched as part of UCLA’s strategic goal to expand its global reach.

The awards support efforts to revise a current UCLA course, design a new course, or design a new program, concentration, or track that incorporates global perspectives.

Kian Goh, associate professor of urban planning, is developing Global Cities and Global Climate Change, an interdisciplinary course that will help students better understand global climate change and its impacts on urban ways of life.

Lené Levy-Storms, associate professor of social welfare, will partner with two Mongolian universities to develop a new elective for the gerontology interdisciplinary minor that uses international perspectives to explore intergenerational relationships throughout the human aging experience.

In its first year, the UCLA Global Advisors Council also awarded 10 Global Research Awards, focused on expanding an existing domestic research project, enhancing one or more international partnerships, or engaging students and other partners in a research initiative that addresses global issues. The 2025 global education and research grants totaled nearly $500,000.

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