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Dr. Dennis Slamon, director of clinical/translational research at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, is co-leader of a research team that has been awarded $16.5 million over three years to conduct research on groundbreaking new approaches... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=153128" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 19:49:44 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Grants &amp; Gifts — May 27, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/grants-gifts-may-27-2009-93245.aspx?link_page_rss=93245</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/grants-gifts-may-27-2009-93245.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Marie-Francoise Chesselet, professor of neurology and chair of the Department of Neurobiology, has been awarded a National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences five-year center grant. Her research focuses on the molecular mechanisms of neurodegenerative... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=153127" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 19:24:19 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>In Memoriam — Him Mark Lai</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/in-memoriam-him-mark-lai-93242.aspx?link_page_rss=93242</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/in-memoriam-him-mark-lai-93242.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Him Mark Lai, the internationally noted scholar, writer, and &quot;Dean of Chinese American History,&quot; died of bladder cancer in San Francisco on May 21.
 
Born on November 1, 1925 in San Francisco's Chinatown, Lai published ten books, more than 100... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=153125" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 19:16:45 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Transitions —May 27, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/transitions-may-27-2009-93241.aspx?link_page_rss=93241</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/transitions-may-27-2009-93241.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Patrick Soon-Shiong, founder and chairman of Abraxis BioScience and executive chairman and CEO of Abraxis Health, has been appointed executive director of the UCLA Wireless Health Institute. He has also accepted a position as a visiting professor of... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=153124" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 19:06:35 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Amy Zegart</author><title>Congress' poor oversight of intelligence is a longstanding problem</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/congress-has-long-been-deficient-92801.aspx?link_page_rss=92801</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/congress-has-long-been-deficient-92801.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
 
Photo by Stan PaulAmy Zegart is an associate professor of public policy at the School of Public Affairs, a Fellow at the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. This op-ed,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=152516" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 18:16:05 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Applause — May 19, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-may-19-2009-92762.aspx?link_page_rss=92762</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-may-19-2009-92762.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, the George and Sakaye Aratani Professor of the Japanese American Redress, Internment, and Community at UCLA, has published a new book. “Japanese American Resettlement Through the Lens&quot; (University Press of Colorado, 2009 sheds light... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=152432" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 23:02:16 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Grants and Gifts — May 19, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/grants-and-gifts-may-19-2009-92761.aspx?link_page_rss=92761</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/grants-and-gifts-may-19-2009-92761.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Aydogan Ozcan has received funding from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for his research in &quot;Design of Resonant Sub-wavelength Metallic Apertures to Enable Higher Resolution Sensor Arrays.&quot;... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=152429" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 22:51:41 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>In Memoriam — Edwin Shneidman</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/in-memoriam-edwin-shneidman-92760.aspx?link_page_rss=92760</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/in-memoriam-edwin-shneidman-92760.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Edwin S. Shneidman, professor emeritus of thanatology, the study of the phenomena of death, died May 15 at his home in West Los Angeles. He was 91. 

A professor with dual appointments in the departments of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences as well... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=152430" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 22:43:20 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Transitions — May 12, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/transitions-may-12-2009-91515.aspx?link_page_rss=91515</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/transitions-may-12-2009-91515.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Virginia A. McFerran will become chief information officer for UCLA Health System and head of the Information Technology Department effective July 1. She will be responsible for guiding the development of all information systems and balancing related... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=151805" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 18:08:16 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Applause — May 12, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-may-12-2009-91448.aspx?link_page_rss=91448</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-may-12-2009-91448.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Edward Leamer, Chauncey J. Medberry Professor in Management at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and director of the UCLA Anderson Forecast, recently published his new book, &quot;Macroeconomic Patterns and Stories&quot; (Springer Verlag, 2009). Leamer has... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=151646" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 21:55:28 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Grants &amp; Gifts — May 12, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/grants-gifts-may-12-2009-91446.aspx?link_page_rss=91446</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/grants-gifts-may-12-2009-91446.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) funded the seedling proposal by Electrical Engineering Professor Bahram Jalali on &quot;Periodically Poled Silicon.&quot; DARPA describes as its mission to maintain the technological superiority of the... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=151645" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 21:44:02 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><title>Grants &amp; Gifts — May 5, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/grants-gifts-may-5-2009-90930.aspx?link_page_rss=90930</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/grants-gifts-may-5-2009-90930.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA is one of four University of California campuses that were awarded $21.2 million in grants for stem cell research from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), with another $1.3 million in grants to a UC-affiliated institute. UCLA... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=150671" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 23:38:45 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Melissa Lambarena</author><title>Applause -- May 5, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-may-5-2009-90927.aspx?link_page_rss=90927</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-may-5-2009-90927.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The UC Board of Regents has approved the appointment of Alessandro &quot;Sandro&quot; Duranti, a linguistic anthropologist, as dean of the UCLA Division of Social Sciences in the College of Letters and Science. The appointment is effective July 1. &quot;I'm honored... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=150655" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 23:01:50 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Grants &amp; Gifts — April 28, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/grants-gifts-april-28-2009-90407.aspx?link_page_rss=90407</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/grants-gifts-april-28-2009-90407.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Each year, the Center for the Study of Women (CSW) awards grants to faculty for research projects about women, sexuality and gender. In the past, recipients have given public lectures, workshops or organized conferences. This year, CSW has organized... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=147818" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 01:31:40 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Applause — April 28, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-april-28-2009-90405.aspx?link_page_rss=90405</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-april-28-2009-90405.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The UCLA Medal, the university’s highest honor, has been awarded to Dr. Jonathan Fielding, director of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, a county health officer and a professor at the UCLA School of Public Health, for his work as an... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=147801" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:40:15 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>In Memoriam: Bill Barnes</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/in-memoriam-bill-barnes-90399.aspx?link_page_rss=90399</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/in-memoriam-bill-barnes-90399.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Bill Barnes, who served as UCLA head football coach from 1958 through 1964, died April 23 at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center of complications from pneumonia. He was 91 and had spent the last two months in the hospital.

In his seven years as head coach... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=147747" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:03:12 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Applause — April 21, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-april-21-2009-89365.aspx?link_page_rss=89365</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-april-21-2009-89365.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Ioanna Kakoulli, assistant professor of materials science and engineering and conservation, recently published a volume on Greek painting techniques called “Greek Painting Techniques and Materials from the Fourth to the First Century B.C.” (Archetype... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=144480" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:50:19 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Cynthia Lee</author><title>10 questions for David Jentsch</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/10-questions-for-leader-of-ucla-88993.aspx?link_page_rss=88993</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/10-questions-for-leader-of-ucla-88993.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[David Jentsch, an associate professor of psychology who researches the neuroscience of mental disorders such as schizophrenia in a quest for new treatments, was awakened by the sound of a loud bang in the early morning hours of March 7 and discovered... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=142223" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:42:11 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Grants and Gifts -- April 14, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/grants-and-gifts-april-14-2009-88891.aspx?link_page_rss=88891</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/grants-and-gifts-april-14-2009-88891.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Aydogan Ozcan, an assistant professor of electrical engineering and member of the California NanoSystems Institute, has been selected to share the 2009 Wireless Innovation Competition Award from the Vodafone Foundation for his work on the CelloPhone... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=141684" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:00:15 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><author>Melissa Lambarena</author><title>Grants and Gifts — April 7, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/grants-and-gifts-april-7-2009-87209.aspx?link_page_rss=87209</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/grants-and-gifts-april-7-2009-87209.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Alexander Bystritsky, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences in the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, has been selected as one of 16 scientists by NARSAD (previously known as the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=138692" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:43:10 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Melissa Lambarena</author><title>Transitions — April 7, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/transitions-april-7-2009-87207.aspx?link_page_rss=87207</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/transitions-april-7-2009-87207.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[ 
The UC Regents have approved the appointment of Professor Nicholas Entrikin as vice provost for international studies. Professor Entrikin has served as the acting vice provost since 2007. His appointment as vice provost enables him to continue... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=138693" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:36:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Melissa Lambarena</author><title>Applause — April 7, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-april-7-2009-87203.aspx?link_page_rss=87203</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-april-7-2009-87203.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Elma L. Gonzalez, professor emeritus of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, has been named a 2009 Distinguished Alumni by Texas Woman’s University and the TWU Former Students Association. Gonzalez has been actively involved in increasing ... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=138691" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:13:20 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Lauri Gavel</author><title>$1.5M gift establishes endowed chair in law</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/1-5m-gift-establishes-endowed-87058.aspx?link_page_rss=87058</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/1-5m-gift-establishes-endowed-87058.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[CLA School of Law has received a $1.5 million commitment from the Shapiro Family Charitable Foundation to establish the Michael H. Schill Endowed Chair in Law in honor of the law school's current dean. The chair will be awarded to a legal scholar of... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=137247" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:48:07 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Tony Chan to head university in Hong Kong</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/tony-chan-to-head-university-in-87023.aspx?link_page_rss=87023</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/tony-chan-to-head-university-in-87023.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Tony Chan, assistant director of the National Science Foundation's largest directorate and a former dean in the College of Letters and Science at UCLA, has been appointed the next president of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=136951" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:10:58 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>David Chute</author><title>Jorge Prelorán, documentary film pioneer</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/jorge-prelor-n-75-ucla-professor-86995.aspx?link_page_rss=86995</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/jorge-prelor-n-75-ucla-professor-86995.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Jorge Prelorán, a pioneer in the field of ethnographic documentary film and a professor emeritus at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, died March 28 in Los Angeles following a 10-year battle with prostate cancer. He was 75. 

A cinematic... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=136547" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:49:52 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Transitions — March 31, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/transitions-march-31-2009-86962.aspx?link_page_rss=86962</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/transitions-march-31-2009-86962.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Aimee Drolet, associate professor of marketing and Betsy Wood Knapp Term Professor of Innovation and Creativity in the Anderson School of Management, has been promoted to professor. &quot;Aimee is a very creative and influential scholar, a great teacher,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=135962" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:45:50 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Applause — March 31, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-march-31-2009-86959.aspx?link_page_rss=86959</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-march-31-2009-86959.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Assistant professors of physiology Mark Frye and Hui Sun have received Early Career Scientist awards from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The awards, made to 50 researchers nationwide, are intended to allow scientists to explore their best ideas... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=135959" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:48:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Lee E. Ohanian</author><title>Obama must do more to oppose anti-reform education unions</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/obama-s-argument-for-competition-86758.aspx?link_page_rss=86758</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/obama-s-argument-for-competition-86758.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Lee E. Ohanian is a professor of economics and director of the Ettinger Family Program in Macroeconomic Research at UCLA. A slightly different version of this op-ed recently appeared in Forbes magazine. He testified before the U.S. Senate March... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=135394" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:28:02 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Grants and Gifts -- March 24, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/grants-and-gifts-march-24-2009-86556.aspx?link_page_rss=86556</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/grants-and-gifts-march-24-2009-86556.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Hooshang Kangarloo, director of the Medical Imaging Informatics Group, has been awarded a NIH/NIBIB Research Project Grant to develop an imaging-based disease model for bone development to better comprehend the genesis of osteoporosis, a debilitating... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=133323" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:51:01 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Applause -- March 24, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-march-24-2009-86547.aspx?link_page_rss=86547</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-march-24-2009-86547.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[EGP News, a U.S. chain of bilingual newspapers, recently published “Southwest’s Mexican Roots: The Untold Stories,” a four-part series of columns written by David Hayes-Bautista, professor of health services in the School of Public Health and director... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=133246" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:42:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Ajay Singh</author><title>The Buddha as astute businessman, economist, lawyer</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/two-cheers-for-the-buddha-astute-85231.aspx?link_page_rss=85231</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/two-cheers-for-the-buddha-astute-85231.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The Buddha was a businessman. But don’t take anyone’s word for it — it’s written in stone. 

Of all the iconic scenes found in the earliest Buddhist art from India, none are more striking than the sculpted representation of a title deed involving... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=130734" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:42:12 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Scott L. Waugh</author><title>UCLA's chief academic officer addresses budget issues</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/chief-academic-officer-addresses-85144.aspx?link_page_rss=85144</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/chief-academic-officer-addresses-85144.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[To UCLA Faculty: 

The sudden economic downturn, coupled with the long-term problems of the state budget, has been a cause of considerable anxiety for everyone. Many of you have asked how California’s budget crisis will affect UCLA. Although the legislature... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=130044" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:16:04 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Applause — March 10, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-march-10-2009-84937.aspx?link_page_rss=84937</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-march-10-2009-84937.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[“Live from Los Angeles,” a CD and DVD by James Roberson, adjunct assistant professor of ethnomusicology, was nominated for five Stellar Gospel Music Award awards and won with singer Beverly Crawford as Traditional Female Vocalist of the Year. The... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=128886" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:15:28 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Melissa Lambarena</author><title>Grants and Gifts -- March 3, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/grants-and-gifts-march-3-2009-83964.aspx?link_page_rss=83964</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/grants-and-gifts-march-3-2009-83964.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The Defense Advanced Research Projects is funding a research project being undertaken by electrical engineering faculty for $4.6 
 
Danijela Cabric
 
Dejan Markovic
 
Behzad Razavi
 
Ali H. Sayed
 
Jason Woomillion. The research project,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=126126" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:03:02 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Applause -- March 3, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-march-3-2009-83963.aspx?link_page_rss=83963</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-march-3-2009-83963.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The American Council of Learned Societies has named Timothy Tangherlini, professor of the Scandinavian Section, as a recipient of a Digital Innovation Fellowship for 2009-10. The fellowship program supports digitally based research projects in all... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=126098" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:29:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Jennifer Marcus</author><title>UCLA scientists take part in signing of U.S.-Cyprus agreement</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-scientists-take-part-in-u-83925.aspx?link_page_rss=83925</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-scientists-take-part-in-u-83925.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[A UCLA delegation recently took part in a historic international event — the signing of the first bilateral science and engineering agreement between the United States and Cyprus as part of the Obama administration’s initiative to encourage research... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=125665" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:47:05 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Stan Paul</author><title>White House summons faculty member to a summit</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/white-house-summons-faculty-member-83661.aspx?link_page_rss=83661</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/white-house-summons-faculty-member-83661.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[“When the president calls, you never say no,” said Fernando Torres-Gil, just back from participating in President Obama’s Feb. 23 Fiscal Responsibility Summit in Washington, D.C. “In this case, I was most happy to oblige,” said the associate dean of... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=125237" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:37:34 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Sandra Shagat</author><title>Alumni create term endowed chair honoring mentor</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/alumni-create-term-endowed-chair-83660.aspx?link_page_rss=83660</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/alumni-create-term-endowed-chair-83660.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Dr. Mark Lisagor, a graduate of the UCLA School of Dentistry’s D.D.S. program and its postgraduate training program in pediatric dentistry, remembers his former teacher, Dr. Thomas Barber, as a dynamo in the classroom and in the school’s teaching clinics... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=125233" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:49:56 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Transitions -- Feb. 24, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/transitions-feb-24-2009-82874.aspx?link_page_rss=82874</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/transitions-feb-24-2009-82874.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Maite Zubiaurre, author of “El espacio en la novela realista: Paisajes, miniaturas, perspectivas,” has been promoted to professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Zubiaurre is a scholar of 19th and 20th century Peninsular literature and gender... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=123191" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:21:33 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Grants and Gifts -- Feb. 24, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/grants-and-gifts-feb-24-2009-82833.aspx?link_page_rss=82833</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/grants-and-gifts-feb-24-2009-82833.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA Anderson School of Management received a $1 million gift from the Anderson School's Board of Visitors member Richard S. Ziman, chairman of American Value Partners and co-chair of the school's $100 million fundraising campaign. Half of the $1... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=123080" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:33:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Applause -- Feb. 24, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-feb-24-2009-82827.aspx?link_page_rss=82827</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-feb-24-2009-82827.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Associate Researcher Jane Margolis in the Graduate School of Education &amp; Information Studies and four co-authors recently won an award for the best education book in 2008 from the Association of American Publishers for &quot;Stuck in the Shallow End.&quot;... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=123068" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:33:02 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Transitions -- Feb. 17, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/transitions-feb-17-2009-81881.aspx?link_page_rss=81881</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/transitions-feb-17-2009-81881.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Adjunct Professor Webb Marner was recently appointed secretary and treasurer of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) by its Board of Governors. He succeeds Amos Holt, who will become the president... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=119456" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:07:44 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Grants and Gifts -- Feb. 17, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/grants-and-gifts-feb-17-2009-81880.aspx?link_page_rss=81880</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/grants-and-gifts-feb-17-2009-81880.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The Anthem Blue Cross Foundation has awarded Mattel Children's Hospital a $412,800 grant to launch the Fit for Residents program. The project will transform the future primary care workforce to be more effective practitioners in the prevention and management... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=119437" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:03:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Applause -- Feb. 17, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-feb-17-2009-81878.aspx?link_page_rss=81878</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-feb-17-2009-81878.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Four young scientists at UCLA are among 118 scientists and scholars to receive 2009 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The fellowships are awarded to &quot;exceptional young researchers,&quot; based on their &quot;outstanding promise of... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=119419" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:41:01 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>John de Figueirdo</author><title>How to allocate stimulus package funds fairly</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/how-to-allocate-stimulus-package-81696.aspx?link_page_rss=81696</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/how-to-allocate-stimulus-package-81696.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[John de Figueiredo is an associate professor at both the Anderson School of Management and the School of Law. This comment recently appeared in BusinessWeek magazine. 

President Obama couldn’t have put it more plainly: “We’re not having earmarks in... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=118253" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:50:41 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>10 Questions for Abraham Lincoln scholar Ronald C. White Jr.</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/10-questions-for-abraham-lincoln-81493.aspx?link_page_rss=81493</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/10-questions-for-abraham-lincoln-81493.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Ronald C. White Jr., a leading Lincoln scholar and visiting professor of history at UCLA, is the author of the recently published &quot;A. Lincoln: A Biography.&quot; The book — one of more than 14,000 published on the 16th American president, whose bicentennial... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=117949" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:30:22 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Applause — Feb. 10, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-feb-10-2009-81169.aspx?link_page_rss=81169</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-feb-10-2009-81169.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Linda Kerns, an adjunct assistant professor in the Ray Bolger Musical Theater Program in the Department of Theater, Film and Television, will be directing a new musical, “Makin’ Hay,” for the Actors Co-op in Los Angeles. The musical, written by UCLA... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=116911" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:29:04 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Grants and Gifts -- Feb. 10, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/grants-and-gifts-81163.aspx?link_page_rss=81163</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/grants-and-gifts-81163.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
The Broad Stem Cell Research Center at UCLA has been awarded $3.93 million from the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to renew a grant to train young scientists to conduct stem cell research. The three-year grant will fund the training... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=116823" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:13:40 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Christopher S. Tang and ManMohan S. Sodhi</author><title>Now's the time for struggling companies to reinvent themselves</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/four-business-tips-for-struggling-81059.aspx?link_page_rss=81059</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/four-business-tips-for-struggling-81059.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Christopher S. Tang is professor in operations management at the Anderson School of Management, where he holds the Edward W. Carter chair in business administration. ManMohan S. Sodhi is professor in operations management at Cass Business School, City... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=115969" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:14:57 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>David Lewin</author><title>Share the economic pain: cut salaries, not employees</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/coping-with-the-downturn-by-cutting-80656.aspx?link_page_rss=80656</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/coping-with-the-downturn-by-cutting-80656.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[David Lewin is Neil H. Jacoby Professor of Management, Human Resources and Organizational Behavior at the Anderson School of Management. This op-ed recently ran in the Wall Street Journal. 

In a downturn, most employers cut jobs to reduce labor costs.... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=115534" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 23:44:35 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Ajay Singh</author><title>10 Questions for Robert Lemelson</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/10-questions-for-robert-lemelson-80497.aspx?link_page_rss=80497</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/10-questions-for-robert-lemelson-80497.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[In 1965-66, between 500,000 and 1 million Indonesians were slaughtered in one of the most barbaric state-sponsored humanitarian tragedies of the modern world. Long denied by the Indonesian government, the little-known massacre is mentioned in President... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=115118" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:55:40 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Grants and Gifts – Feb. 3, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/grants-and-gifts-feb-3-2009-80218.aspx?link_page_rss=80218</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/grants-and-gifts-feb-3-2009-80218.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[St. Baldrick's Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to raising money for childhood cancer research, awarded a grant of $52,986 to Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA. These grants are designated to either help institutions treat more kids on clinical... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=113598" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:51:42 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Applause — Feb. 3, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-feb-3-2009-80216.aspx?link_page_rss=80216</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-feb-3-2009-80216.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The 25th anniversary of UCLA’s liver transplantation program, one of the top such programs in the world, was marked by a symposium at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. Dr. Ronald Busuttil, chief of liver transplantation and executive chairman of... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=113592" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:16:20 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Grants – Jan. 27, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/grants-jan-27-2009-79629.aspx?link_page_rss=79629</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/grants-jan-27-2009-79629.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The Jonsson Cancer Center and the Department of Urology have awarded four career development grants and four research excellence grants to faculty members and two young investigator awards to postdoctoral researchers. All the scientists are doing... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=109006" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:12:13 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Applause – Jan. 27, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-jan-27-2009-79628.aspx?link_page_rss=79628</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-jan-27-2009-79628.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Law Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw joined Dick Gregory, Alice Walker and Nobel Prize Laureate Jody Williams in speaking at the 2009 Inaugural Peace Ball, held Jan. 20 at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum to commemorate President Barack Obama's inauguration... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=108953" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:32:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Cynthia Lee</author><title>Fighting the obesity epidemic 10 minutes at a time</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ten-minutes-to-fitness-78639.aspx?link_page_rss=78639</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ten-minutes-to-fitness-78639.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[An odd sight may catch your attention on most days if you're near the entrance to the School of Public Health or walking past a classroom in the Center for Health Sciences. You might even hear music and the sound of clomping shoes coming from a conference... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=107315" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:02:08 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Verbatim – Bush legacy, Chinese presidential preferences, sacking employees, history professors, expensive education</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-bush-legacy-chinese-presidential-78633.aspx?link_page_rss=78633</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-bush-legacy-chinese-presidential-78633.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA faculty are quoted in the media on a wide range of subjects. Here's a recent selection. 
 
“Bush came in with one agenda and left with another.” 
 
— Frank Higbie, associate professor of history, quoted in a Jan. 15 Fox News online... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=107213" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:10:58 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Pilot pact paves way for open access publishing</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/pilot-pact-paves-way-for-open-78629.aspx?link_page_rss=78629</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/pilot-pact-paves-way-for-open-78629.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
The UC libraries and Springer Science+Business Media have reached a groundbreaking experimental agreement to support open access publishing by UC authors. The arrangement is part of the journals license negotiated by the California Digital... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=107136" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:54:08 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Grants &amp; Gifts — Jan. 20, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/grants-gifts-jan-20-2009-78592.aspx?link_page_rss=78592</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/grants-gifts-jan-20-2009-78592.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Cun-Yu Wang, professor and the chair of the Division of Oral Biology and Medicine at the School of Dentistry, has received a $1.5 Million NIH/NIDCR R01 grant for his research investigating how immune cytokines promote oral bone loss through IkB kinase.... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=107028" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:19:15 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Transitions — Jan. 20, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/transitions-jan-20-2009-78589.aspx?link_page_rss=78589</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/transitions-jan-20-2009-78589.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Mathematics Professor Russel Caflisch has been appointed director of the Institute for Pure &amp; Applied Mathematics (IPAM. Caflisch has focused his research in mathematical finance, monet carlo methods, kinetic theory, materials science, plasma dynamics,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=107018" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:24:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Applause — Jan. 20, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-jan-20-2009-78583.aspx?link_page_rss=78583</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-jan-20-2009-78583.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Francisco Ramos-Gomez, professor of dentistry, has been appointed president of the Hispanic Dental Association. The national organization is dedicated to promoting and improving the oral health of the Hispanic community and providing advocacy for Hispanic... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=106936" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:56:25 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Ajay Singh</author><title>10 Questions for Eric Sundquist</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/10-questions-for-eric-sunquist-78425.aspx?link_page_rss=78425</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/10-questions-for-eric-sunquist-78425.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Four simple words – “I have a dream” – uttered by Martin Luther King Jr. from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in his 1963 speech solidified the civil rights movement. The iconic phrase still reverberates around the world — and is one of the themes... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=105792" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:18:11 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>In Memoriam -- Peter Kollock</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/in-memoriam-peter-kollock-78421.aspx?link_page_rss=78421</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/in-memoriam-peter-kollock-78421.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Peter Kollock, 49, a professor in the Department of Sociology, was killed Saturday, Jan. 10, in a motorcycle accident near his home in Calabasas. Trained as a social psychologist in experimental methods, he was an exceptional teacher who provided his... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=105546" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:04:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Grants and Gifts — Jan. 13, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/gifts-and-grants-jan-13-2009-78399.aspx?link_page_rss=78399</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/gifts-and-grants-jan-13-2009-78399.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Allocations of supercomputing and data storage resources are made under the Department of Energy’s Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program, which supports computationally intensive, large-scale research projects.... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=105451" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:47:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Transitions — Jan. 13, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/transitions-jan-13-2009-78394.aspx?link_page_rss=78394</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/transitions-jan-13-2009-78394.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[  

Ray Weisenbarger has joined the UCLA athletic performance staff in the Department of Athletics. He will work primarily with football and will also have responsibility for three Olympic sports. Weisenbarger comes to UCLA from the University of... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=106933" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:45:01 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Applause — Jan. 13, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-jan-13-2009-78390.aspx?link_page_rss=78390</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-jan-13-2009-78390.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA Anderson School of Management Dean Judy Olian announced the appointment of two term chairs, made possible by gifts from entrepreneur and philanthropist Betsy Wood Knapp and the late entrepreneur and corporate founder Joseph J. Jacobs. The duration... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=105447" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:55:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Daniel J.B. Mitchell</author><title>How to make Detroit productive after its bailout</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/after-its-bailout-how-to-make-78373.aspx?link_page_rss=78373</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/after-its-bailout-how-to-make-78373.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Daniel J.B. Mitchell is professor emeritus of the Anderson Graduate School of Management, and the School of Public Affairs.
 
Vast sums have been given to various enterprises of late, especially in the financial sector, to avoid bankruptcy. While... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=105286" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:25:15 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Ajay Singh</author><title>Prof makes his point via rock 'n' roll</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/prof-gets-his-point-across-via-77533.aspx?link_page_rss=77533</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/prof-gets-his-point-across-via-77533.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Psychology Professor Paul Abramson was driving to UC Davis this past October when he heard a story on the local NPR station about a band called BTO. Presuming it was Bachman-Turner Overdrive, the 1970s Canadian rock group he listened to in his youth,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=103267" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:43:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Grants and Gifts — Jan. 6, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/grants-and-gifts-jan-6-2009-77457.aspx?link_page_rss=77457</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/grants-and-gifts-jan-6-2009-77457.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The Shapiro Family Charitable Foundation has made a $1 million pledge to the UCLA School of Dentistry for the establishment of the Dr. No-Hee Park Endowed Chair in Dentistry to honor the school’s dean and to foster excellence in research and scholarship... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=102674" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:22:49 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Transitions — Jan. 6, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/transitions-jan-6-2009-77456.aspx?link_page_rss=77456</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/transitions-jan-6-2009-77456.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Hilary Godwin, professor and chair of the Department of Environmental Health Sciences in the School of Public Health, has become the associate dean for academic programs. She replaces Gerald Kominski, who steps down after seven years to devote more time... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=102675" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:07:08 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Applause — Jan. 6, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-jan-6-2009-77447.aspx?link_page_rss=77447</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-jan-6-2009-77447.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Jorja Leap, associate adjunct professor of social welfare in the School of Public Affairs, traveled to Washington, D.C., recently to address a Congressional panel on the growth of gangs and youth violence. Leap participated in the Dec. 3 summit, “Empowering... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=102636" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:10:35 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Roger Farmer</author><title>Thwarting the Great Depression of 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/thwarting-the-great-depression-77431.aspx?link_page_rss=77431</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/thwarting-the-great-depression-77431.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Roger Farmer, a professor and vice chair for graduate studies in the economics department, is the author of two forthcoming books: “Expectations, Employment and Prices” and “How the Economy Works and How to Fix It When It Doesn’t.” This article recently... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=102265" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:55:29 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Verbatim — taxes, humanity, gifts, Facebook and extreme weather</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-jan-2009-77411.aspx?link_page_rss=77411</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-jan-2009-77411.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA faculty are quoted in the media on a wide range of subjects. Starting this month, UCLA Today will regularly feature some of the most noteworthy media citations credited to our faculty. Here’s our first collection:
 
“The court may just say,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=102258" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:40:58 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Wendy Soderburg</author><title>Internationally acclaimed architect has designs on inspiring the next generation</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/internationally-acclaimed-architect-77396.aspx?link_page_rss=77396</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/internationally-acclaimed-architect-77396.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
[Photo by Jason Odell]When Hitoshi Abe was named chair of UCLA’s Department of Architecture and Urban Design in 2007 — becoming the first Japanese [national] chair of architecture in an American university — he was already an internationally acclaimed... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=101938" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:31:46 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Enrique Rivero</author><title>Rose Parade reunites surgeon, transplant patient after 25 years</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/rose-parade-reunites-surgeon-transplant-77368.aspx?link_page_rss=77368</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/rose-parade-reunites-surgeon-transplant-77368.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Among the 46 floral entries that dazzled the millions of Rose Parade watchers on the street and at home was one special float dedicated to those individuals whose invaluable donations of organs, corneas or tissue have saved and healed others in... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=101767" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:38:28 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>From nukes to proteins: Three faculty honored for their pursuit of science</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/from-nukes-to-proteins-three-faculty-77048.aspx?link_page_rss=77048</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/from-nukes-to-proteins-three-faculty-77048.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Three UCLA faculty members were named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) on Dec. 18 for their work on everything from international nuclear weapons policy to incredibly small proteins. 

The AAAS has honored Chancellor... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=98259" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:27:58 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Transitions — Dec. 16, 2008</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/transitions-dec-16-2008-76926.aspx?link_page_rss=76926</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/transitions-dec-16-2008-76926.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Dean Courtney H. Lyder has become the School of Nursing’s first dean to have an official appointment with the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center as an assistant director within UCLA Health System, according to Heidi Crooks, the medical center’s senior... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=97290" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:28:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Grants and Awards – Dec. 16, 20098</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/grants-and-awards-dec-16-2009-76914.aspx?link_page_rss=76914</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/grants-and-awards-dec-16-2009-76914.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Two UCLA scientists have been awarded more than $1.8 million in state grants to develop innovative tools and technologies that will help overcome technical hurdles in advancing basic, translational and clinical stem cell research:
 
Michael Phelps,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=97279" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:56:47 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Applause — Dec. 16, 2008</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-dec-16-2008-76911.aspx?link_page_rss=76911</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-dec-16-2008-76911.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Chancellor Emeritus Albert Carnesale has been appointed chair of a high-level committee that will provide overall direction, coordination and integration of multiple activities by the National Academies, to examine the sweeping issues associated with... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=97273" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:36:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Grants – Dec. 9, 2008</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/grants-dec-9-2008-75658.aspx?link_page_rss=75658</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/grants-dec-9-2008-75658.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded $7.6 million over five years to Education Professor Daniel Solozano for the research project “Maximizing Opportunities &amp; Minimizing Obstacles to Postsecondary Education Plus (PSE+).” Under the auspices... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=93961" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:50:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Transitions – Dec. 9, 2008</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/transitions-dec-9-2008-75588.aspx?link_page_rss=75588</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/transitions-dec-9-2008-75588.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[ 
 
Dr. Gerald Levey, dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and vice chancellor, medical sciences, will step down from his position as dean when his current five-year term expires on June 30, 2009. He will remain as vice chancellor... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=92750" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:39:58 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>Senior survey: Faculty get high marks from graduating seniors</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/faculty-get-high-marks-from-graduating-72527.aspx?link_page_rss=72527</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/faculty-get-high-marks-from-graduating-72527.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[

Judith Smith, dean and vice provost for undergraduate education, has a stack of papers covered in blue-and-gold charts that makes her pretty pleased.

It's the College of Letters and Science’s fourth annual Senior Survey, which asked 4,500 graduating... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=89887" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:10:52 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Applause — Dec. 2, 2008</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-dec-2-2008-72409.aspx?link_page_rss=72409</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-dec-2-2008-72409.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The UCLA School of Dentistry has named oral biology Professor David Wong as the first holder of the Felix and Mildred Yip Endowed Professorship in Dentistry. Wong is a pioneer in the fight against oral cancer, having developed with colleagues the... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=89543" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:14:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>In Memoriam: Dr. John H. Menkes</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/in-memoriam-dr-john-h-menkes-72408.aspx?link_page_rss=72408</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/in-memoriam-dr-john-h-menkes-72408.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Dr. John H. Menkes, who established the pediatric neurology program at UCLA, died Nov. 22 in Los Angeles of cancer. He was 79.

Among his many achievements was the discovery of Menkes disease, a rare disorder caused by a defective enzyme that blocks... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=89460" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:12:43 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Transitions — Dec. 2, 2008</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/transitions-dec-2-2008-72405.aspx?link_page_rss=72405</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/transitions-dec-2-2008-72405.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Theodore Gamelin, a mathematics professor, is retiring. He has a broad research agenda in function algebras and function theory and has authored three significant research monographs on these subjects. Gamelin has guided UCLA's nationally recognized... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=129900" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:05:40 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Ajay Singh</author><title>Do-good docs’ mission to Peru full of surprises, satisfaction</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/do-good-docs-mission-to-peru-full-72204.aspx?link_page_rss=72204</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/do-good-docs-mission-to-peru-full-72204.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[His name was Jefferson and he was a three-year-old boy who had “special needs.” When Dr. Eric Sung saw him, he quickly realized that autism wasn’t Jefferson’s only problem. No less than 15 of his 20 baby teeth were badly decayed – and he had been waiting... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=88136" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:28:33 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Grants — Nov. 25, 2008</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/grants-nov-25-2008-72194.aspx?link_page_rss=72194</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/grants-nov-25-2008-72194.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Lyle Bachman, professor in the Department of Applied Linguistics at UCLA, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to do research at the University of Hong Kong during the 2008-2009 academic year. He will be constructing a historical analysis... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=87796" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:51:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Applause — Nov. 25, 2008</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-nov-25-2008-72191.aspx?link_page_rss=72191</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-nov-25-2008-72191.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Mary Nichols, law professor-in-residence, is being considered to head President-elect Barack Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency. Appointed to head Calfornia’s Air Resources Board by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger last year, Nichols designed the nation's... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=87790" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:58:43 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Innovative nominees sought for Copenhaver Award</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/innovative-nominees-sought-for-72055.aspx?link_page_rss=72055</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/innovative-nominees-sought-for-72055.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
The Faculty Committee on Educational Technology is now accepting nominations for the Brian P. Copenhaver Award for innovation in teaching with technology.

UCLA instructors, students and staff may nominate faculty members innovative in incorporating... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=86350" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:44:12 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>In Memoriam: Marion Scott Rosalsky</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/in-memoriam-marion-scott-rosalsky-71955.aspx?link_page_rss=71955</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/in-memoriam-marion-scott-rosalsky-71955.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Marion Scott Rosalsky, known in the professional dance world as Marion Scott, died in Los Angeles on Oct. 5, 2008, at 86 years of age. Born in Chicago, she moved to New York City when she was 18 to study with many of the pioneers in the world of modern... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=84558" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:58:38 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Applause — Nov. 18, 2008</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-nov-18-2008-71954.aspx?link_page_rss=71954</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-nov-18-2008-71954.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Benjamin Zuckerman, professor of physics and astronomy, is co-author of a paper recently published in Science in which astronomers report obtaining an image of a star, about twice the mass of our sun, orbited by giant planets — the first image of... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=84925" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:36:41 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Transitions -- Nov. 18, 2008</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/transitions-nov-18-2008-71950.aspx?link_page_rss=71950</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/transitions-nov-18-2008-71950.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[James Newton, professor of ethnomusicology, has been hired as a permanent faculty member, which will allow the Department of Ethnomusicology in the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music to expand and strengthen core course offerings in jazz studies. 
 
 
 
 
Min... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=84557" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:23:14 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Grants — Nov. 18, 2008</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/grants-nov-18-2008-71948.aspx?link_page_rss=71948</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/grants-nov-18-2008-71948.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The Chicano Studies Research Center accepted a $225,000 grant from the Getty Foundation. The grant will support research and planning for &quot;Los Angeles: The Mexican Presence in L.A., 1945–80,&quot; a three-part exhibition scheduled for January through April... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=84926" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:21:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Grants — Nov 12, 2008</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/grants-nov-12-2008-71859.aspx?link_page_rss=71859</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/grants-nov-12-2008-71859.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Professor of History Patrick Geary has been awarded a major grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support completion of the digital St. Gall Monastery project. The St. Gall Plan is the earliest preserved and most extraordinary visualization of... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=83485" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:22:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Calla Wiemer</author><title>China’s economic stimulus is good news for global markets</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/china-s-economic-stimulus-is-good-71857.aspx?link_page_rss=71857</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/china-s-economic-stimulus-is-good-71857.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Calla Wiemer is a visiting scholar at the Center for Chinese Studies. This op-ed was recently published in the Wall Street Journal Asia. 


Global markets have cheered the stimulus plan Beijing announced Nov. 9, and with good reason. At $586 billion,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=83457" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:41:59 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Transitions — Nov. 12, 2008</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/transitions-nov-12-2008-71852.aspx?link_page_rss=71852</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/transitions-nov-12-2008-71852.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Jessica Rett has joined the linguistics department as assistant professor. She will conduct research and teach in the area of semantics. Rett recently completed her Ph.D. at Rutgers University with a dissertation entitled Degree Modification in... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=83458" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:21:04 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
