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UChicago Global offers travel grants for PhD students and postdoctoral scholars conducting work in East Asia and Latin America.

Prof. Juliano Saccomani is currently working on a project to develop virtual-reality-enabled materials to be used in Portuguese and Spanish classes at UChicago. 

A research project led by Prof. Maanasa Raghavan and Dr. Constanza de la Fuente examines the problematics of genomics and identity in Chile. While acknowledging that increased access to genomic technologies and improvements to sampling diversity have led to progress in the field, the team notes that research of Indigenous peoples has often been done on rather than with or for them. They emphasize the need for research practices in academia to empower Indigenous communities in research settings, rather than relying on the goodwill of the researchers or expecting academic institutions to make amends.