Congratulations to LACS Office Assistant, Ximena Abigail Perez The Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity (OMA&D) selected Ximena Perez as one of the recognition scholarship recipients and was honored for her achievements at the annual Celebration banquet where she also participated as the Student Scholar Speaker. This scholarship and annual event honor OMA&D students who

Our department’s congratulations go to Professor Megan Ybarra, whose book Green Wars: Conservation and Decolonization in the Maya Forest, won the 2019 Cultural and Political Ecology Outstanding Publication Award at the American Association of Geographers (AAG) Conference in Washington, D.C.! As profiled in this article on the website for the UW Center for Human Rights, the

A push to bring US-backed food and medicine into Venezuela ended in chaos on Feb. 23, as trucks carrying supplies across the Colombia-Venezuela border were set aflame and several hundred people are reported injured in clashes. The humanitarian aid could have brought some relief to Venezuelans facing a humanitarian crisis — 90 percent live in poverty, and the dire