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Dear Colleagues:

As a result of the dramatic fall in state funding for the University of California, we must restructure UCLA’s academic... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=156687" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:50:55 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>Staff leap into action as Jackson creates campus' biggest media surge in memory</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-leap-into-action-as-jackson-95128.aspx?link_page_rss=95128</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-leap-into-action-as-jackson-95128.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[When Michael Jackson's ambulance arrived at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center on Thursday, June 25, the star was soon followed by hordes of paparazzi, TV reporters, fans and more. The crowd only grew from there. 


 
News crews swarmed outside the... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=156410" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:44:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Emilia Barrosse</author><title>Children leave legacy, thanks to famed muralist, UCLA students</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/sixth-graders-leave-legacy-to-95070.aspx?link_page_rss=95070</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/sixth-graders-leave-legacy-to-95070.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Scott C. Smith’s students at UCLA Lab School have proven that age is no standard by which to judge an artist's merit. 

Each year, the graduating sixth grade class gives a gift to the school. This year, students, parents and teachers decided that their... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=155477" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:37:44 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Amy Albin</author><title>Support Mattel Children's Hospital at Ralph's</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/your-groceries-support-mattel-95013.aspx?link_page_rss=95013</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/your-groceries-support-mattel-95013.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Here's an easy way to support Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA. Next time you're at your neighborhood Ralphs supermarket, toss your spare change into the collection canister at the checkout stand. 

Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA is one of six children's... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=155410" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:04:49 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Budget Town Hall transcript</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/read-a-transcript-of-the-budget-94900.aspx?link_page_rss=94900</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/read-a-transcript-of-the-budget-94900.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Staff Assembly sponsored a Budget Town Hall on June 24 at Pauley Pavilion. Making remarks and responding to questions were Chancellor Gene Block, Vice Chancellor Steve Olsen, and Associate Vice Chancellor Lubbe Levin. Following is a transcript.... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=155342" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:17:16 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>UCLA's biggest summer session gives departments a cash boost</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/uclas-biggest-summer-session-94899.aspx?link_page_rss=94899</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/uclas-biggest-summer-session-94899.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
 
Studying keeps happening during the summer at UCLA. Photo by Stephanie Diani.While recession woes force some California colleges to cut back on summer classes — Cal Poly Pomona even canceled summer session altogether — UCLA is looking ahead to its... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=155356" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:12:08 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Go green and save money with Green IT</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/go-green-and-save-money-with-green-94891.aspx?link_page_rss=94891</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/go-green-and-save-money-with-green-94891.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Learn how to use office technology to go green and save money this Thursday afternoon, June 25, at the Green IT campus meeting. 
 
A group of campus support coordinators (CSC) have researched the best ways to turn IT to cost-effective green use.... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=155336" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:48:01 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Dan Gordon</author><title>Weight Watching</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/weight-watching-94786.aspx?link_page_rss=94786</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/weight-watching-94786.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
 
Illustration by Juliette Borda.
Summer is a time when we break away from routines and break out the bathing suits — a potentially lethal combination for the many among us who wage a constant war struggling to shed those excess pounds.
 
&quot;Two... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=155297" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:32:23 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Emilia Barrosse</author><title>Free at the Fowler</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/free-at-the-fowler-94762.aspx?link_page_rss=94762</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/free-at-the-fowler-94762.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[While the shaky economy has many thinking twice about spending hard-earned cash on entertainment, the Fowler Museum at UCLA presents a most affordable option: free concerts, performances and films running in conjunction this summer with two current exhibitions... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=155274" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:44:02 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>Teaching literacy in the city benefits learners, tutors</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/teaching-literacy-in-the-city-94676.aspx?link_page_rss=94676</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/teaching-literacy-in-the-city-94676.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The mostly immigrant adults attending Centro Latino for Literacy in downtown Los Angeles usually speak only Spanish. They come to learn to read and write their language, motivated by a panoply of hard-luck tales that they share with the UCLA interns... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=155252" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:54:52 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin and Mark Wheeler</author><title>On a quest for breakthroughs in treating brain injuries</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/aiming-for-breakthroughs-in-treating-94661.aspx?link_page_rss=94661</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/aiming-for-breakthroughs-in-treating-94661.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Actress Natasha Richardson’s death this past March from a brain injury — the result of a skiing accident — was not, unfortunately, an uncommon event. Nor was the UCLA student sent into a coma on June 17 after a punch to the face during a music concert... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=155219" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:20:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Cynthia Lee</author><title>Workers rush in to turn dorms into conference digs for summer</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/workers-rush-in-to-turn-dorms-94630.aspx?link_page_rss=94630</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/workers-rush-in-to-turn-dorms-94630.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[When the last commencement banner comes down and the 2009 graduation scene fades into a warm memory, a sense of quiet envelops the campus that only days before reverberated with the jabber of thousands of happy conversations and jubilant cell phone calls.... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=155217" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:24:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Campus leaders to hold Staff Town Hall on budget</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/campus-leaders-to-hold-staff-town-94606.aspx?link_page_rss=94606</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/campus-leaders-to-hold-staff-town-94606.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Staff will have an opportunity to learn the most up-to-date information on the state of the UC and UCLA budgets at a Town Hall meeting set for Wednesday, June 24, from noon to 1 p.m. at Pauley Pavilion.

Chancellor Gene Block and Vice Chancellor for... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=155215" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:23:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>Building's green makeover wins high score UC-wide</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/building-s-green-makeover-wins-94602.aspx?link_page_rss=94602</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/building-s-green-makeover-wins-94602.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Behind-the-scenes changes are making a big difference in UCLA's Public Affairs Building. By finding out when everyone leaves the building for the day, Facilities Management has calculated down to the minute when they can turn off air-conditioning or... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=155214" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:03:13 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>All-Staff Picnic is cancelled due to budget</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/picnic-cancelled-94559.aspx?link_page_rss=94559</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/picnic-cancelled-94559.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[ 
This year's All-Staff Picnic has been cancelled due to budget constraints, announced Kyrie Bass, president of UCLA Staff Assembly, co-hosts the picnic with the Office of the Chancellor. 
 
&quot;After serious consideration, Staff Assembly has... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=155188" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:03:05 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Emilia Barrosse</author><title>Curtain rises on L.A. Film Festival in Westwood</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/curtain-rises-on-l-a-film-festival-94324.aspx?link_page_rss=94324</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/curtain-rises-on-l-a-film-festival-94324.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[ 
Get your popcorn buttered and put on your walking shoes – the Los Angeles Film Festival returns to Westwood June 18-28 with films and events taking place at 12 venues in Westwood and four at other Los Angeles locations. 
 

 
The Hammer... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=155085" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:23:19 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Phil Hampton</author><title>Academic Senate schedules Town Hall on budget</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/academic-senate-schedules-town-94256.aspx?link_page_rss=94256</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/academic-senate-schedules-town-94256.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Campus leaders are scheduled Tuesday to brief faculty and take questions on the budget crisis facing UCLA and the University of California system. 

The Town Hall sponsored by the Academic Senate is set for noon-1:30 p.m. in the Charles E. Young Grand... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=154840" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:13:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>When the student becomes the teacher</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/when-the-student-becomes-the-teacher-94045.aspx?link_page_rss=94045</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/when-the-student-becomes-the-teacher-94045.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Senior Pallavi Reddy, 22, sits at the head of the classroom, facing about a dozen other UCLA students. Students who are taking her class, that is. 
 
&quot;So, did you all get a chance to watch the video clips of Anthony Bourdain and Rachael Ray?&quot;... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=154507" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:35:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Robin Rauzi</author><title>UCLA Live debuts 2009-2010 season</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-live-debuts-2009-2010-season-93839.aspx?link_page_rss=93839</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-live-debuts-2009-2010-season-93839.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Annette Bening in &quot;Medea.&quot;Actress Annette Bening will appear in a world premiere of “Medea” on Sept. 23, kicking off UCLA Live’s sweeping, star-studded 2009-10 season of theater, music, dance and spoken word. David Sefton, artistic and executive director... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=154039" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:04:31 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Crime Alert — June 4, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/crime-alert-june-4-2009-93728.aspx?link_page_rss=93728</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/crime-alert-june-4-2009-93728.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[A sexual assault occurred on the 1200 block of Veteran Avenue on May 25, according to a community alert from the The Los Angeles Police Department. The female victim parked her vehicle in the underground parking structure of her apartment building. After... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=154029" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:20:17 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>Human trafficking escalates as world economy plunges</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/trafficking-93715.aspx?link_page_rss=93715</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/trafficking-93715.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Drug smuggling may top the list of the world’s most profitable and headline-grabbing illegal activities, but second to that —in a close tie with the illegal arms trade — is human trafficking, the recruitment or coercion of people who are held captive... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=154030" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:36:57 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>A 'one-stop shop' for greening your office</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/a-one-stop-shop-for-greening-your-93684.aspx?link_page_rss=93684</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/a-one-stop-shop-for-greening-your-93684.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[In a mock-infomercial presentation to campus leaders in late May, five UCLA staffers hailed their development of the university's first comprehensive guide to greening your office.
 
&quot;It can be yours for just three low payments of zero dollars!&quot;... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=153944" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:07:01 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Kevin Matthews</author><title>Experts bring Africa alive for young students</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/experts-bring-africa-alive-for-93504.aspx?link_page_rss=93504</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/experts-bring-africa-alive-for-93504.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Carlos De Loera, a seventh grader from St. John the Baptist School in Baldwin Park, didn't know that French was the official language of the Republic of Benin, a country in West Africa. On Saturday, May 30, however, he learned this fact from no less... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=153791" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:34:15 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>Webcasting profs reach students worldwide</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/webcasting-profs-reach-students-93458.aspx?link_page_rss=93458</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/webcasting-profs-reach-students-93458.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[What do a retiree in Pasadena, a soldier in Iraq and a college student in Japan have in common? None of them go to UCLA, but through webcasts, they're all sitting in on university lectures.
 

 
UCLA biologist Jay Phelan's students can listen... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=153623" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:09:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>June 1 is deadline for comment on proposed policy on furloughs, salary reductions</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/june-1-is-deadline-for-comment-93292.aspx?link_page_rss=93292</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/june-1-is-deadline-for-comment-93292.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The Staff Advisors to the UC regents want to remind staff members of the June 1 deadline to comment on a proposed policy that will guide any future decisions on employee furloughs and compensation reductions made in response to a fiscal emergency.
 
The... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=153511" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 15:59:59 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>Six stellar faculty win Distinguished Teaching Award</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/stellar-faculty-win-distinguished-93275.aspx?link_page_rss=93275</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/stellar-faculty-win-distinguished-93275.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Associate History Professor Janice Reiff's journey to becoming a professor had a traumatic beginning. As a freshman at Northwestern, she took the train from school to downtown Chicago, noticing the neighborhoods grow more depressed and segregated until,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=153214" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 18:12:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>Let the commencement begin</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/let-the-commencement-begin-93272.aspx?link_page_rss=93272</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/let-the-commencement-begin-93272.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[When thousands of white folding chairs start sprouting up in places like Wilson Plaza and Dickson Court, that’s a sign that things are getting intense for Chansoth Migletz — that about 10,000 students are about to graduate at 14 separate ceremonies and... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=153196" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 17:20:19 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Robin Heffler</author><title>Freshman Clusters program marks decade of success</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/freshman-clusters-program-marks-93234.aspx?link_page_rss=93234</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/freshman-clusters-program-marks-93234.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Clusters student Valerie Weinstein gives senior Scott Hugo a high-five. Hugo, a Rhodes Scholar, talked about how the Clusters course he took impacted his education at a 10th anniversary celebration. Students, alumni, faculty and staff gathered May... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=153122" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 17:59:08 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Test of BruinAlert system set for May 27</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/test-of-bruinalert-system-set-93091.aspx?link_page_rss=93091</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/test-of-bruinalert-system-set-93091.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[A campuswide test of the BruinAlert notification system is set to take place between noon and 1 p.m. on Wednesday, May 27. 

For the spring quarter test, emergency notifications will be sent out simultaneously to faculty, staff and students using e-mail,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=152868" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 16:46:41 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Kevin Matthews</author><title>Mexican writer decries plight of women writers in Latin America</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/women-writers-are-ignored-undervalued-92901.aspx?link_page_rss=92901</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/women-writers-are-ignored-undervalued-92901.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[It was the eve of the 77th birthday of Elena Poniatowska, the prolific Mexican woman of letters who writes fiction, journalism, essays and poetry with social and psychological awareness. So the audience of 250 attending her lecture May 18 at Rolfe Hall... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=152618" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 18:30:46 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>New draft Academic Plan includes push for more employee housing</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/new-draft-academic-plan-includes-92891.aspx?link_page_rss=92891</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/new-draft-academic-plan-includes-92891.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[With a decade to go until UCLA's 100th birthday, campus leaders are developing a 10-year plan to make sure the university starts out on the right path as it heads into its second century. 


 
Campus leaders are looking ahead to the next 10 years at... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=152588" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 00:26:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Cynthia Lee</author><title>Campus mobilizes to go after stimulus money in big way</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/campus-mobilizes-to-go-after-stimulus-92780.aspx?link_page_rss=92780</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/campus-mobilizes-to-go-after-stimulus-92780.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Campus administrators and staffers in many departments have been swept up in the rush to meet grant proposal deadlines as UCLA researchers compete for a chunk of the roughly $20 billion in stimulus money being offered through federal agencies. 

The... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=152461" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 15:45:35 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>Sacred secrets in Aboriginal art at the Fowler</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/sacred-secrets-in-aboriginal-art-91596.aspx?link_page_rss=91596</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/sacred-secrets-in-aboriginal-art-91596.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[For generations, Aboriginal Australians created sacred art using patterns that were the closely-guarded secrets of initiated male elders.
 
But in the early '70s, the artists faced a choice: sacred seclusion or worldwide acclaim.
 

 
Click... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=151919" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 16:38:26 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Elaine Schmidt</author><title>Medical students honor donors who made unparalleled gift of their cadavers</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/medical-students-honor-those-who-91541.aspx?link_page_rss=91541</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/medical-students-honor-those-who-91541.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[On May 11, a moving service honored the men and women who willed their cadavers to the UCLA Donated Body Program and thus enabled students at the David Geffen School of Medicine to learn the intricacies of the human body in anatomy class so that other... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=151806" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 18:36:37 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>UCLA's roadway recruiter coaxes commuters to carpool</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-s-roadway-recruiter-coaxes-91373.aspx?link_page_rss=91373</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-s-roadway-recruiter-coaxes-91373.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Jumy Rollins wants to save the planet, one commuter at a time. 

Her mission begins with being green. At home in Lomita, she and her husband cultivate an organic garden, use a composter and are fervent recyclers. 

“I’m really big on trying to help the... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=151631" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 15:18:46 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>Building job skills through campus classes</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/building-job-skills-through-campus-91254.aspx?link_page_rss=91254</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/building-job-skills-through-campus-91254.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Students aren't the only ones taking classes at UCLA. Dozens of classes offered on campus through Skillnet help employees learn computer programs like Photoshop, communications techniques for managing your boss, or tips on how to finally tidy your desk... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=151568" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 15:46:19 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Cynthia Lee</author><title>Reading for recovery post-Katrina</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/recovering-from-katrina-through-91204.aspx?link_page_rss=91204</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/recovering-from-katrina-through-91204.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[It was a homegrown effort run by UCLA students and a faculty member with a yearning to do something nice for the beleaguered children of New Orleans, home to some of the nation's neediest schools. And it came together one dollar at a time. 

On Sunday,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=151464" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 16:16:19 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Wendy Soderburg</author><title>The power of podcasting</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/the-power-of-podcasting-91202.aspx?link_page_rss=91202</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/the-power-of-podcasting-91202.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[iTunes — it’s not just for music anymore. 

It’s also a vehicle through which faculty can connect with students by creating an online environment dedicated to teaching. All faculty members need to do is become authorized users of UCLA on iTunes U, a... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=151461" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 15:43:13 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>Swine flu: no cases here, but every precaution is taken</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/swine-flu-no-cases-here-but-every-90825.aspx?link_page_rss=90825</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/swine-flu-no-cases-here-but-every-90825.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Even before Los Angeles County saw its first confirmed cases of H1N1, also known as swine flu, UCLA was preparing for it. 
 
Although none of the UCLA patients tested as of midday Tuesday, May 5, have had anything more than the regular flu bug... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=150518" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 19:17:55 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Mark Davis</author><title>Come to campus for UCLA Day '09</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/come-to-campus-for-ucla-day-09-90818.aspx?link_page_rss=90818</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/come-to-campus-for-ucla-day-09-90818.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Wherever Bruins gather, opportunity abounds, nowhere more so than at UCLA Day, the newest and most action-packed Bruin tradition. Take the family, reconnect with old friends and make new ones on Saturday, May 9, at the second annual UCLA Day.
 
UCLA... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=150184" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 17:12:22 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>Staff advisors to the UC regents share staff concerns</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-advisors-to-the-uc-regents-90611.aspx?link_page_rss=90611</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-advisors-to-the-uc-regents-90611.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Bill Johansen, left, and Edward Abeyta explain the role of being staff advisor to the UC regents. Photos by Reed HutchinsonTwo UC staff members who serve as advisors to the UC regents visited UCLA on April 27 to discuss key issues and take questions... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=149996" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 22:54:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>Class explores the good and evil of Google</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/class-explores-the-good-and-evil-90514.aspx?link_page_rss=90514</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/class-explores-the-good-and-evil-90514.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[It's one thing to hear Professor Todd Presner's shrewd insights into how Google is changing the world. It's another to sit in on his undergrad class, &quot;The Googlization of Everything,&quot; and hear the surprising attitudes of his students, most of whom were... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=149262" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 01:01:19 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>Teens to explore filmmaking at campus summer camps</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/teens-to-explore-filmmaking-at-90512.aspx?link_page_rss=90512</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/teens-to-explore-filmmaking-at-90512.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[For the high-schooler hoping to be &quot;discovered&quot; by Hollywood, or the teen interested in dabbling in filmmaking, a slate of summer workshops at UCLA offers a chance to get a taste of both college life and Tinsel town. 

The UCLA Arts Camps Summer Workshops,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=149010" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 15:49:53 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Kevin Matthews</author><title>Ex-interrogators say human connection, not torture, yields results</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ex-interrogators-say-human-connection-90495.aspx?link_page_rss=90495</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ex-interrogators-say-human-connection-90495.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Information from U.S. military interrogations led to the capture of deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in 2003 and to the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian-born instigator of a campaign of suicide bombings and beheadings, in a 2006 airstrike... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=148760" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:58:17 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>Depression lecture a hit in new staff/faculty speaker series</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/depression-lecture-a-hit-in-new-90387.aspx?link_page_rss=90387</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/depression-lecture-a-hit-in-new-90387.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[ <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=147556" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:26:26 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>Field trip: From DNA Day to frat parties</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/field-trip-dna-day-to-frat-parties-90308.aspx?link_page_rss=90308</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/field-trip-dna-day-to-frat-parties-90308.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[It was a day of eclectic information for about 80 high school students from King-Drew Medical Magnet High School visiting UCLA. They learned that it’s OK to change your major a couple of times, and that UCLA scientists can make skin cells that mimic... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=147103" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:14:46 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>UCLA Fights Women's Cancer: Join the team</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-fights-women-s-cancer-join-89575.aspx?link_page_rss=89575</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-fights-women-s-cancer-join-89575.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[One of the nation's largest 5K fundraisers is just two weeks away, and the UCLA team is looking for a few more last minute walkers, runners and donors to jump on board.
 
For the 16th annual Entertainment Industry Foundation Revlon Run/Walk for... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=145470" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:55:13 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>Hundreds join campus march for science, against terror</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-researchers-march-for-science-89531.aspx?link_page_rss=89531</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-researchers-march-for-science-89531.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA researchers, who for years have faced harassment and attacks from anti-animal-research activists, were heartened as roughly 700 supporters on campus joined them Wednesday, April 22, calling for an end to the intimidation, fire-bombing... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=145242" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:18:10 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>Access a wide world of website expertise</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/wide-world-of-web-expertise-89491.aspx?link_page_rss=89491</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/wide-world-of-web-expertise-89491.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Want to build a better website? Campus Web Publishers (CWP) — an organization of diverse UCLA staff members whose jobs all reach into the Web in one way or another — can help. 
 
Robert Carr manages the Semel Institute website.

Just ask Robert Carr,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=144897" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:56:23 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Bethania Palma</author><title>For Anderson Cooper, it's personal</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/for-anderson-cooper-it-s-personal-89287.aspx?link_page_rss=89287</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/for-anderson-cooper-it-s-personal-89287.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[  

When UCLA computer science Professor Judea Pearl, a Bruin faculty member for four decades, invited CNN anchor Anderson Cooper to speak in Westwood, the response was surprisingly personal.
 
Cooper told the Bruin scholar that a picture... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=143748" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:49:59 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>A day in the life of UCLA</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/a-day-in-the-life-of-ucla-89248.aspx?link_page_rss=89248</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/a-day-in-the-life-of-ucla-89248.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The only constant on campus is that it always changes. New buildings, new students, new kinds of courses, new ways of thinking and teaching, learning and doing. Here, in pictures and video, is your university today, in all of its amazing diversity, from... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=143686" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:43:11 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>Building 1,000 homes for the homeless</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/building-1-000-homes-for-the-homeless-89240.aspx?link_page_rss=89240</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/building-1-000-homes-for-the-homeless-89240.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Anderson M.B.A. student Shahrouz Golshani, 34, has an ambitious goal: to build 1,000 homes for the homeless.
 
&quot;I have been called naive many times this year,&quot; he conceded. But considering he admitted that in a speech at a crowded conference kicking... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=143663" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:00:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>International community coming to realize 'the responsibility to protect'</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/international-community-coming-88897.aspx?link_page_rss=88897</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/international-community-coming-88897.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The author of a landmark report on stopping genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes and crimes against humanity said Tuesday, April 14, at UCLA that the international community is coming to realize that &quot;the sin is not intervention; the sin is indifference.&quot;
 
&quot;The... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=141704" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:56:29 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>Law profs blog for the environment</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/law-profs-blog-for-the-environment-88084.aspx?link_page_rss=88084</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/law-profs-blog-for-the-environment-88084.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[When the directors of UCLA and UC Berkeley's environmental law centers recently found themselves looking for an intelligent, neutral round-up of the day's big eco news, they discovered it didn’t exist. So they created one.
 
Legal Planet, a collaborative... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=139151" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:59:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Catch a sneak peek at UCLA football</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/catch-a-sneak-peek-at-ucla-football-87905.aspx?link_page_rss=87905</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/catch-a-sneak-peek-at-ucla-football-87905.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[In the spring, a young Bruin’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love … and football? 

Yes, football. March Madness has barely ended, and already it’s time for spring practice for the UCLA football team. What better way to get the football juices flowing... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=139030" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:05:56 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>UCLA/United Way campaign launches April 13</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-united-way-campaign-launches-87307.aspx?link_page_rss=87307</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-united-way-campaign-launches-87307.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA Staff and faculty have generously helped needy neighbors by contributing to United Way of Greater Los Angeles for four decades — and it’s that time of the year again. 

You will receive information about UCLA’s United Way campaign by e-mail or in... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=138655" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:41:10 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Kevin Matthews</author><title>UCLA broadens its expertise on Korea via Latin America</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-broaden-its-expertise-on-87195.aspx?link_page_rss=87195</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-broaden-its-expertise-on-87195.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The “north-south divide” conjures up one meaning to a historian and another to a political scientist. It can also describe a little-known dichotomy that exists in American scholarship on the Koreas. 

In the United States, with very few exceptions, Korea... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=138329" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:32:57 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>UCLA enviromentalists mull eco-training for new hires</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-enviromentalists-mull-eco-87085.aspx?link_page_rss=87085</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-enviromentalists-mull-eco-87085.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[In an ongoing effort to raise awareness about UCLA's ambitious goals to produce zero waste by 2020 and meet other sustainability goals, university environmentalists are tossing around a new idea: eco-orientations and training for employees.
 
&quot;There... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=137311" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:00:59 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Chancellor’s Town Hall April 8</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/chancellor-s-town-hall-set-for-87004.aspx?link_page_rss=87004</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/chancellor-s-town-hall-set-for-87004.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Staff and faculty are invited to join Chancellor Gene Block for a Town Hall on April 8, noon to 1 p.m. in the California Room of the UCLA Faculty Center. Chancellor Block will update staff on key topics and take questions from staff.The meeting is sponsored... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=136846" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:43:42 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Give yourself a health checkup -- and receive a free gift</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/give-yourself-a-health-checkup-86791.aspx?link_page_rss=86791</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/give-yourself-a-health-checkup-86791.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[April 15 isn't just the deadline for filing your taxes. It's the deadline for eligible UCLA employees to get a free $100 gift card to any of 350 of stores, gas stations and restaurants. And that's not all. 
 
Be nice to yourself -- take stock of your... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=135763" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:08:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Maya Parmer</author><title>Two days of the Duke</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/two-days-of-the-duke-86756.aspx?link_page_rss=86756</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/two-days-of-the-duke-86756.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[When UCLA students were entranced by Duke Ellington's provocative tunes at a Culver City club in 1937, they asked the budding musical great to play a free concert in Royce Hall. 
 

 
Duke Ellington. - Photo courtesy of Kenny Burrell.
&quot;I've... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=135326" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:00:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>How green is your campus?</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/how-green-is-your-campus-86584.aspx?link_page_rss=86584</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/how-green-is-your-campus-86584.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Illustration by Bryan Christie Design.
It sounds like a familiar story: UCLA decided to go green by buying alternative-fuel vehicles. What makes it weird is that it happened in the late '80s. 

The campus started addressing pollutants back when &quot;green&quot;... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=133632" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:45:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>New UCLA Blood &amp; Platelet Center to open in Ackerman</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/new-ucla-blood-platelet-center-86568.aspx?link_page_rss=86568</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/new-ucla-blood-platelet-center-86568.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
 
Linda Goss, donor recruitment supervisor for the Blood &amp; Platelet Centers. Behind her, Bruins donate platelets and pass the time under comfy blankets, watching TV. - Photo by Rich Schmitt.Got blood? UCLA's Blood &amp; Platelet Centers are always... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=133589" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:01:26 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Wendy Soderburg</author><title>Clearing a path to cancer cures</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/clearing-a-path-to-cancer-cures-86542.aspx?link_page_rss=86542</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/clearing-a-path-to-cancer-cures-86542.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Since it was first approved in 1998, the breast cancer drug Herceptin — developed by Dennis J. Slamon and his colleagues at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center — has saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of women.
 

 
Dennis Slamon.... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=133228" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:12:41 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Kids helping kids: Dakota Fanning hosts 5K to help UCLA pediatric patients</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/kids-helping-kids-dakota-fanning-86423.aspx?link_page_rss=86423</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/kids-helping-kids-dakota-fanning-86423.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA's littlest patients will get a boost this year from someone they can identify with, when teenaged actress Dakota Fanning hosts the university's 10th annual 5K Run/Walk benefitting Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA.
 

 
Actress... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=132468" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:00:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>New rules pave way for telecommuting</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/new-telecommuting-rules-could-85620.aspx?link_page_rss=85620</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/new-telecommuting-rules-could-85620.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
 
Van Do-Nguyen tries to get work done in her office, which is being upended to make way for new furniture -- just one in an endless list of workplace distractions, she says. The senior administrative analyst with the Department of Women's Studies... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=131349" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:13:37 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Cynthia Lee</author><title>Putting the brakes on parking permit fee increases</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/no-increase-in-parking-permit-85573.aspx?link_page_rss=85573</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/no-increase-in-parking-permit-85573.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Some good news for faculty and staff with UCLA parking permits as well as those who are commuting in vanpools and carpools: Your monthly permit fees and vanpool fares for next year will remain the same as this year. 

UCLA Transportation had originally... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=139887" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:04:23 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>Government, business leaders seek UCLA's help to meet new carbon-cutting law</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/government-business-leaders-seek-85196.aspx?link_page_rss=85196</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/government-business-leaders-seek-85196.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Can Los Angeles clean up its air by offering green retrofits for low-income homes, using electric cars powered by subscription-based car batteries and duplicating the carbon-cutting transit programs from UCLA?
 
Those were a few of the ideas tossed... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=130509" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:39:35 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Nature 101</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/nature-101-85191.aspx?link_page_rss=85191</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/nature-101-85191.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden is seeking volunteer docents for its public education program, serving K-12 students, the UCLA community and other adult groups. 

Training begins Monday, April 27, at 11 a.m. You have until April 16 to apply by... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=130411" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:35:34 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>Obama stem cell policy opens the field to new discoveries, disease treatment</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/obama-stem-cell-policy-opens-the-85172.aspx?link_page_rss=85172</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/obama-stem-cell-policy-opens-the-85172.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[With the stroke of a pen in the Oval Office last week, the future grew brighter for researchers at UCLA and beyond who conduct stem cell research, as well as for those who stand to benefit from their discoveries. 

On March 9, President Obama signed... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=130161" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:01:17 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Kevin Matthews</author><title>Historian looks back on fall of Communism 20 years ago</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/historian-looks-back-on-fall-of-85126.aspx?link_page_rss=85126</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/historian-looks-back-on-fall-of-85126.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Before an audience that included consular officials from six Central and Eastern European countries that threw off Communism in 1989, a visiting historian and professor from Berlin recalled the stunning events that led up to the fall of Communism and... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=129730" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:01:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Wendy Soderburg</author><title>A team of her own</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/a-team-of-her-own-85059.aspx?link_page_rss=85059</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/a-team-of-her-own-85059.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Despite losing its final conference game against Oregon State University last week — a tight match-up that ended in a 61-58 score — the UCLA women's basketball team is entering the Pac-10 tournament on Friday with a very respectable 18-11 record and... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=129217" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:20:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>Can research provide the secrets of a healthy romance?</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/can-research-provide-the-secrets-84953.aspx?link_page_rss=84953</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/can-research-provide-the-secrets-84953.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[A pair of UCLA psychology professors recently offered staffers a promise too good to pass up: the secret rules of a great relationship.
 
The rules are based on the duo's experience as counselors, and perhaps more importantly, as researchers who... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=128932" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:55:50 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Vote smart: candidate forum for the 26th Senate District</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/vote-smart-candidate-forum-for-84894.aspx?link_page_rss=84894</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/vote-smart-candidate-forum-for-84894.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Candidates for the 26th State Senate seat, previously held by Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, will appear at a public candidate forum sponsored by UCLA Government and Community Relations, West Los Angeles College and the Culver City... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=128644" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:50:35 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Ajay Singh</author><title>The agonizing history of the CIA’s intelligence failures</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/the-agonizing-history-of-the-cia-84700.aspx?link_page_rss=84700</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/the-agonizing-history-of-the-cia-84700.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[On September 11, 1998, exactly three years before 9/11, the CIA secretly warned the White House that American intelligence would suffer a “catastrophic, systemic failure” unless its information-gathering methods were revamped. Five years later, the CIA... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=128191" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:04:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Father, son authors share their story of struggle with drug addiction</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/father-son-authors-share-their-84665.aspx?link_page_rss=84665</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/father-son-authors-share-their-84665.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[David and Nic Sheff, the father and son who have each authored books that have become New York Times bestsellers about Nic's drug and alcohol addiction, will be sharing their story at an upcoming public presentation March 18 by the Friends of the Semel... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=127986" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:05:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin &amp; Meg Sullivan</author><title>UCLA's natural beauty is in his hands</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-s-natural-beauty-is-in-his-84452.aspx?link_page_rss=84452</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-s-natural-beauty-is-in-his-84452.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[How would you like to keep clean and green a 419-acre backyard — complete with lush gardens — that’s vast, stunning and constantly in need of watering, weeding, mulching, fertilizing and pruning? 

 
It takes Rich Ohara a month to slowly walk the... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=127436" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:47:56 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Cynthia Lee</author><title>Green's a good buy at campus trade show</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/green-s-a-good-buy-at-campus-trade-84439.aspx?link_page_rss=84439</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/green-s-a-good-buy-at-campus-trade-84439.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The eco-ethic was everywhere you looked in the Ackerman Grand Ballroom on March 3, where 92 preferred vendors and suppliers showed off their latest products for the well-equipped campus office or lab. 

The newest and greenest of these hundreds of products... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=127358" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:55:10 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>Bombshelter to close this winter for 2011 replacement</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/bombshelter-to-close-this-winter-84106.aspx?link_page_rss=84106</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/bombshelter-to-close-this-winter-84106.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The popular campus burger joint known as the Bombshelter will see its bunker-thick concrete walls put to the ultimate test this winter: demolition. 


 
Rendering of the new South Campus Student Center by Capital Programs.A replacement South Campus... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=126473" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:16:57 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Register for UCLA Recreation Summer Camp March 7</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/summer-camp-registration-march-83953.aspx?link_page_rss=83953</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/summer-camp-registration-march-83953.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Swimming, sailing, exploring, sports, games and more make summer fun for children in grades K-12 at UCLA Recreation’s annual summer camps. Staff and faculty are invited to get a jump start on registration this Saturday, March 7, starting at 8:30 a.m.... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=125815" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:13:55 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>Calm yourself: Write in a diary</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/writing-in-a-diary-can-reduce-83950.aspx?link_page_rss=83950</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/writing-in-a-diary-can-reduce-83950.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[In what British journalists have gamely nicknamed &quot;the Bridget Jones effect,&quot; a UCLA psychology professor has shown that working out negative emotions in a diary can actually trick your brain into feeling better. 

Matthew Lieberman, an associate professor... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=125736" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:48:25 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Leaders to discuss L.A.'s response to global warming</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/leaders-to-discuss-l-a-s-response-82962.aspx?link_page_rss=82962</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/leaders-to-discuss-l-a-s-response-82962.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA is bringing together top regulators, elected officials, business leaders and community organizations to explore the region’s response to state requirements to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. 

Keynote speakers at the March 6 symposium include Mary... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=124201" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:32:37 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Mike Padilla</author><title>Raising cancer awareness the Bruin way</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/raising-cancer-awareness-the-bruin-82794.aspx?link_page_rss=82794</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/raising-cancer-awareness-the-bruin-82794.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[This May 9, when 50,000 people converge for the 16th annual Entertainment Industry Foundation Revlon Run/Walk for Women Los Angeles, one contingent is likely to stand out in the crowd: the UCLA team.
 

 
Click to enlarge: The Jonsson Cancer... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=122375" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:47:12 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>New date for Staff Assembly's Budget Town Hall</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/new-date-for-staff-assembly-s-82692.aspx?link_page_rss=82692</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/new-date-for-staff-assembly-s-82692.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Staff Assembly has a new date for the Budget Town Hall — Friday, March 6. The Town Hall will take place from noon to 1 p.m in the Harry and Yvonne Lenart Auditorium on the A-level of the Fowler Museum. You can enter directly from the outdoor amphitheater.... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=122354" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:20:16 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Test of BruinAlert system set for Wednesday, Feb. 25</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/test-of-bruinalert-system-set-82626.aspx?link_page_rss=82626</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/test-of-bruinalert-system-set-82626.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[A campuswide test of the BruinAlert notification system is set to take place at approximately noon on Wednesday, Feb. 25. 

Emergency notifications will be sent out simultaneously to faculty, staff and students using e-mail, text messaging, campus radio... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=122030" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:05:16 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Discount on Amtrak services for UC faculty and staff</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/discount-on-amtrak-services-for-82398.aspx?link_page_rss=82398</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/discount-on-amtrak-services-for-82398.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Amtrak California is offering UC faculty and staff 15% off on Pacific Surfliner, San Joaquin, and Capitol Corridor trains and associated Thruway Motorcoach services. 

For Pacific Surfliner and San Joaquin reservations, routes and schedules, visit... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=120870" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:04:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Stacey Abarbanel</author><title>Contemporary artists see Africa through prism</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/contemporary-artists-see-africa-82095.aspx?link_page_rss=82095</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/contemporary-artists-see-africa-82095.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Long dedicated to exploring the vast range of African artistic expression, the Fowler Museum will present on Feb. 22 two concurrent exhibitions of 
 
From &quot;Continental Rifts&quot;: &quot;Africa Rifting: Lines of Fire, Namibia/Brazil,&quot; 2001, video still... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=120132" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:28:32 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Andrew Bray</author><title>Student engineers aim to design “super mileage” vehicle of the future</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/student-engineers-build-super-81961.aspx?link_page_rss=81961</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/student-engineers-build-super-81961.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[A Prius may get 45 miles per gallon, but the UCLA Super Mileage Vehicle Team has loftier goals – more like 1,250 mpg. With mileage like that, you could drive from L.A. to Seattle on one gallon of gas, or to New York on two and a half. The average American... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=119679" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:23:53 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Annual trade show to showcase products, services</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/annual-trade-show-to-showcase-81958.aspx?link_page_rss=81958</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/annual-trade-show-to-showcase-81958.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[This year, the annual UCLA Alliance Supplier and BruinBuy Trade Show will showcase more than 78 suppliersof laboratory/life science equipment, printing, IT,furniture, office supplies, services and other items to the campus.
 
These suppliers have... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=119665" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:56:46 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Budget Town Hall is postponed</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/budget-town-hall-is-postponed-81956.aspx?link_page_rss=81956</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/budget-town-hall-is-postponed-81956.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Staff Assembly has postponed the Budget Town Hall scheduled for Friday, Feb. 20, until more is known about the impact of the final state budget just approved by the State Legislature. 

Staff Assembly will reschedule the event for sometime in the next... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=119664" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:36:10 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Crime Alert: Person of interest</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/crime-alert-person-of-interest-81952.aspx?link_page_rss=81952</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/crime-alert-person-of-interest-81952.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The UCLA Police Department has asked members of the campus community to contact the department if the woman shown here, identified as Hanie Yoon, is seen on campus. 

According to Detective Scott Scheffler, the UCLA PD is investigating the possibility... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=119662" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:05:17 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>Chancellor secures $1 million for child care assistance</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/chancellor-secures-child-care-funding.aspx?link_page_rss=81692</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/chancellor-secures-child-care-funding.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[With more than 700 families on a waiting list, UCLA's child care program is wildly in demand, but as its executive director knows, it's also an expensive proposition.
 

 
Chancellor Gene Block at a ribbon-cutting in 2008, celebrating the grand... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=118643" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Arif Shaikh</author><title>Local youth study a new subject: their high schools</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/youth-council-81672.aspx?link_page_rss=81672</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/youth-council-81672.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Educators, policymakers and other adults grapple nonstop with the educational and social issues that affect youth. But gone are the days when adults can do this job alone — without engaging and learning from the experiences and insights of young people... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=118097" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:50:28 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Enrique Rivero</author><title>Patients, doctors celebrate 25 years of saving lives</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/patients-doctors-celebrate-25-81166.aspx?link_page_rss=81166</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/patients-doctors-celebrate-25-81166.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[It was a joyous reunion to affirm life and reconnect with the surgeon who helped them stay alive. 

As Dr. Ronald Busuttil strode across the quad between Royce Hall and Powell Library, someone shouted, “There’s the man! There’s the man!” 


 
Dr.... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=116838" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:41:07 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Cynthia Lee</author><title>Saving on software nets hard cash</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/saving-on-software-nets-hard-cash-81165.aspx?link_page_rss=81165</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/saving-on-software-nets-hard-cash-81165.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[These days when campus departments are looking every which way to stretch a dollar, there's a clear path they can follow to savings if it's new software that's weighing down their budgets.
 
All together, UCLA departments spend roughly $10 million... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=116836" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:34:35 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Wendy Soderburg</author><title>Volunteer gives voice to MS community</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/mastering-ms-81070.aspx?link_page_rss=81070</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/mastering-ms-81070.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Walk into Stephanie Fisher’s cozy office, and the first thing you notice are stuffed toys scattered about and a water bowl on the floor. And in the corner, lying on a soft cushion with an adorably hopeful look on his face, is Fisher’s loveable yellow... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=116084" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:44:46 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>New policy on rehiring UC retirees takes effect</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/new-policy-on-rehiring-uc-retirees-81064.aspx?link_page_rss=81064</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/new-policy-on-rehiring-uc-retirees-81064.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
A new UC policy for rehiring UC retirees took effect last month after the regents approved it last September and it underwent internal review.

The policy, which does not apply to academic appointments, aims to ensure compliance with Internal Revenue... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=115970" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:05:19 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>IMing your way to love</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/iming-your-way-to-love-81063.aspx?link_page_rss=81063</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/iming-your-way-to-love-81063.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[When you instant-message your sweetie a love note this Valentine's Day, new research suggests you could be expressing more than you think.
 
Which words couples use in their IMs to each other not only predict the staying power of a relationship,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=115967" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:37:52 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Starting the day right -- breakfast with the boss</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/starting-the-day-right-breakfast-81043.aspx?link_page_rss=81043</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/starting-the-day-right-breakfast-81043.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Breakfast — that most important meal of the day — will become even more significant for 13 staff members on Monday, March 16, from 8:30 a.m.-10 a.m., when they sit down with Chancellor Gene Block as part of Winter Quarter’s “Breakfast with the Chancellor.”... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=115866" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:35:17 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>C. Thi Nguyen</author><title>Eating on the edge of Westwood</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/eating-on-the-edge-of-westwood-80635.aspx?link_page_rss=80635</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/eating-on-the-edge-of-westwood-80635.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Click to enlarge. Map by Alicia Patel.
Thi Nguyen, a Bruin graduate student in philosophy, is senior editor of Chow Digest, a compilation of hot tips from the popular online food discussion board Chowhound. 
 
There's a culinary... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=115514" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:48:12 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
