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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/rss2full.xsl"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut</link><language>en-us</language><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:15:25 GMT</pubDate><title>People</title><description /><copyright>UCLA Today</copyright><generator>iPressroom.com</generator><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/uclatoday-people" type="application/rss+xml" /><item><author>Wendy Soderburg</author><title>UCLA’s head football coach visits U.S. troops</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-s-head-football-coach-visits-95233.aspx?link_page_rss=95233</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-s-head-football-coach-visits-95233.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[College football coaches are used to giving pep talks. It’s part of their job, and they do it well. 


 
UCLA’s Coach Rick Neuheisel (right) and Air Force Academy’s Coach Troy Calhoun talk while riding inside the cockpit of an Air Force C-17 Globemaster... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=156473" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:15:25 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Kevin Matthews</author><title>New answers to big questions in Chinese history</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/falkenhausen-95008.aspx?link_page_rss=95008</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/falkenhausen-95008.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[For 30 years Lothar von Falkenhausen has observed changes in China over two very different time scales — one of them measured in millennia. Professor of art history and archaeology at UCLA and acting director of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, he... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=155405" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:53:05 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Wendy Soderburg</author><title>Cotsen Institute names new assistant director</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/cotsen-institute-names-new-assistant-95002.aspx?link_page_rss=95002</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/cotsen-institute-names-new-assistant-95002.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
 
Shauna MecarteaShauna Mecartea, director of publications and communications for the UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, has been named acting assistant director of the institute until July 1, when she will assume the role of assistant director.... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=155392" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:35:52 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Wendy Soderburg</author><title>Senate vice chair wins Gold Shield Faculty Prize</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/senate-vice-chair-wins-gold-shield-94928.aspx?link_page_rss=94928</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/senate-vice-chair-wins-gold-shield-94928.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Faculty members who attended the Academic Senate’s Legislative Assembly meeting on June 11 weren’t surprised to see Robin Garrell, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, sitting at the front of the room next to the Senate’s current chair, Michael Goldstein.... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=155355" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:39:22 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>Judy Lin</author><title>Staff Applause — Staff Assembly Scholarships</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-applause-staff-assembly-94662.aspx?link_page_rss=94662</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-applause-staff-assembly-94662.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Each year UCLA Staff Assembly offers scholarships for career enhancement and professional growth. This year’s recipients, who were announced at a June 17 awards reception at the Faculty Center, will receive up to $500 toward career development activities... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=155220" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:07:33 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>Staff excellence recognized with awards and scholarships</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-excellence-recognized-with-94635.aspx?link_page_rss=94635</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-excellence-recognized-with-94635.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA staff members were recognized for their outstanding contributions and encouraged in their career aspirations during a festive celebration June 17 at the Faculty Center. The awards were presented by UCLA Staff Assembly and the Administrative Management... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=155218" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:48:29 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Emilia Barrosse</author><title>Two make priceless gift to strangers, setting off two kidney transplant chains</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/two-make-priceless-gift-of-organ-94355.aspx?link_page_rss=94355</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/two-make-priceless-gift-of-organ-94355.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[ 
How much can the power of love accomplish? Just ask Harry Damon or Nicole Lanstrum. 
Damon is a Michigan firefighter who lost his 24-year-old son in a tragic snowmobile accident, and Lanstrum is an Air Force technical sergeant from Iowa who specializes... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=155089" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:20:46 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Staff Applause — New water polo coaches</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-applause-new-water-polo-94168.aspx?link_page_rss=94168</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-applause-new-water-polo-94168.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
 
Adam Wright (left) and Brandon Brooks.Adam Wright has been named head men’s water polo coach at UCLA, and Brandon Brooks has been named head women’s water polo coach. Wright and Brooks replace Adam Krikorian, who was named head coach of the U.S.... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=154624" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:57:10 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Ajay Singh</author><title>He carves career from studying lives of immigrant workers</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/he-carves-career-from-studying-93995.aspx?link_page_rss=93995</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/he-carves-career-from-studying-93995.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Whenever Abel Valenzuela Jr. gets his car washed, he puts on what he calls his “thinking cap” and observes how car washers, usually Latin American immigrants, go about their back-breaking work. He avoids talking to the workers, lest they get into trouble... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=154488" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:37:25 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Wendy Soderburg</author><title>A tribute to leadership in the name of Wooden</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/a-tribute-to-leadership-in-the-93733.aspx?link_page_rss=93733</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/a-tribute-to-leadership-in-the-93733.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
From the left, Kenneth Chenault, chairman and CEO of American Express, holds the leadership award he won. With him are Anderson Dean Judy Olian and John Wooden, for whom the award is named.As fans and friends of UCLA’s legendary basketball coach all... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=154037" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:04:29 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Staff Applause: 2009-10 Staff Assembly executive board members</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-applause-staff-assembly-93678.aspx?link_page_rss=93678</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-applause-staff-assembly-93678.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
 
Maureen Wadleigh
Staff Assembly's new executive board members have been announced following a campuswide election. For the term 2009-10, beginning July 1, Maureen Wadleigh, associate director of business operations for UCLA Recreation (previously... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=153937" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:48:17 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Cynthia Lee</author><title>Prof reveals artistic side of renowned architect</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/prof-reveals-artistic-side-of-93553.aspx?link_page_rss=93553</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/prof-reveals-artistic-side-of-93553.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Richard Neutra is widely recognized as one of modernism's most important architects. Now a new exhibition of his sketches and drawings from the Department of Special Collections at the Charles E. Young Research Library casts him in a different light... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=153809" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:32:14 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><title>Applause — May 27, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-may-27-2009-93247.aspx?link_page_rss=93247</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-may-27-2009-93247.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
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><title>Staff honors -- May 22, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-honors-may-22-2009-92906.aspx?link_page_rss=92906</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-honors-may-22-2009-92906.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Assistant Chancellor Antoinette G. Mongelli recently received two awards. The University Religious Conference at UCLA (URC) presented her with the Thomas St. Clair Evans Award May 19 at the Faculty Center. Named after the founding director of the... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=152673" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 19:27:14 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>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><author>Mary Daily</author><title>Protect and preserve: film classics live on</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/protect-and-preserve-film-classics-92757.aspx?link_page_rss=92757</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/protect-and-preserve-film-classics-92757.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Moving image media tell us so much about ourselves, says Robert Rosen, that letting films fade away is a &quot;cultural crime.&quot; 


 
One of Robert Rosen's favorite film &quot;saves&quot; is the 1955 movie &quot;Night of the Hunter,&quot; directed by Charles Laughton and starring... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=152423" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 22:08:56 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Cynthia Lee</author><title>A lifelong lesson in embracing diversity</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/a-lifelong-lesson-in-embracing-92705.aspx?link_page_rss=92705</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/a-lifelong-lesson-in-embracing-92705.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Don Nakanishi, a scholar of race and ethnic studies for the last 40 years, didn't have to go far from where he grew up to find his first primer on the subject of race. 

Growing up in multicultural East Los Angeles with Chicano boyhood friends and Jewish-American... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=152408" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 19:20:28 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Ajay Singh</author><title>Civil union: The intellectual and literal marriage of two professors</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/civil-union-the-intellectual-and-92485.aspx?link_page_rss=92485</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/civil-union-the-intellectual-and-92485.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Some 20 years ago, when Gary Orfield was a professor of political science and education at the University of Chicago, he traveled to Sacramento to testify before a legislative body. After the exercise was over, Orfield realized he was running late for... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=152171" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 19:12:10 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>Bethany Powers</author><title>Film festival looks at Latino roles over 80 years of film-making</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/film-festival-captures-look-at-91443.aspx?link_page_rss=91443</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/film-festival-captures-look-at-91443.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Chon Noriega, an award-winning professor of cinema and media studies at UCLA, has a major role in a film festival that lets viewers look broadly at how Latino characters were portrayed over eight decades of film-making. 

Noriega, director... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=151644" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 20:35:18 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>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><title>UC Board of Regents names two new chancellors</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/uc-board-of-regents-names-two-91165.aspx?link_page_rss=91165</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/uc-board-of-regents-names-two-91165.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The UC regents appointed May 7 a UCLA engineering alumna as chancellor of UC Davis and a biotech industry executive to head UC San Francisco. 

Linda Katehi, provost and vice chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a renowned... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=151291" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 21:39:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Matthew Chin and Judy Lin</author><title>10 questions for Bruin Astronaut Megan McArthur</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/10-questions-for-bruin-astronaut-90983.aspx?link_page_rss=90983</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/10-questions-for-bruin-astronaut-90983.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Megan McArthur. Photos courtesy of NASA.When Space Shuttle Atlantis mission STS-125 lifted off May 11 for NASA’s final mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope, a proud Bruin was among the seven crew members. This is her first space flight.... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=150882" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 15:44:59 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><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><author>Jacqueline Tasch</author><title>He harnesses the sun to serve Cairo's slum dwellers</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/harnessing-the-sun-to-serve-cairo-89675.aspx?link_page_rss=89675</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/harnessing-the-sun-to-serve-cairo-89675.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[When T. H Culhane first set eyes on the slums of Darb Al Ahmar in Cairo, he saw deep and pervasive poverty, the lack of potable water and the dearth of other urban resources — and asked why. There were similar communities around the world that had improved... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=145844" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:29:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Staff In Memoriam: Carl Patrick</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-in-memoriam-carl-patrick-89366.aspx?link_page_rss=89366</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-in-memoriam-carl-patrick-89366.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Carl Patrick, office manager for the Department of World Arts and Cultures in the School of the Arts and Architecture, died March 17 in Los Angeles following complications due to a stroke. He was 59. 

Patrick was born in Roanoke, Va., and received his... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=144484" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:18:38 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><title>Staff Applause -- April 14, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-applause-april-14-2009-88892.aspx?link_page_rss=88892</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-applause-april-14-2009-88892.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Elizabeth C. Moeller, assistant dean of career services at the School of Law, was elected to serve as a 2009-2011 director on the board of NALP — the Association for Legal Career Professionals. Founded in 1971 as the National Association for Law Placement,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=141692" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:10:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>Ten questions for Rupa Sridharan</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ten-questions-for-rupa-sridharan-88672.aspx?link_page_rss=88672</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ten-questions-for-rupa-sridharan-88672.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Rupa Sridharan is one of five recipients of the 2009 Chancellor’s Award for Postdoctoral Research,  given in recognition of the important contributions that postdoctoral scholars make to UCLA. Of the 1,089 registered UCLA postdoctoral scholars,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=141012" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:39:59 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><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>Wendy Soderburg</author><title>Jamie McCourt's course is a home run</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/jamie-mccourt-s-course-is-a-home-87016.aspx?link_page_rss=87016</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/jamie-mccourt-s-course-is-a-home-87016.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[If you’re a fan of the Los Angeles Dodgers, you undoubtedly know who Jamie McCourt is. Newly named as CEO of the Dodger organization, McCourt has co-owned the team with her husband, Frank, since 2004. She is the highest-ranking woman in Major League... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=136935" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:15:59 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Ajay Singh</author><title>Father, son search for paradise -- via Iraq, Israel, Los Angeles</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/one-man-s-search-for-paradise-86790.aspx?link_page_rss=86790</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/one-man-s-search-for-paradise-86790.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Yona Sabar was 12 years old when he left his home in the isolated mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan and made his way to Israel. The year was 1951, the Middle East was in postwar turmoil, and Sabar was armed with just three childhood possessions: a school... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=135760" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:43:48 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>Green business? Not without self-interest.</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/green-business-not-without-self-86749.aspx?link_page_rss=86749</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/green-business-not-without-self-86749.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Professor Magali Delmas knows you probably don't care about electric utility regulation. But does organic wine or fair-trade coffee tickle your taste buds?
 

 
Professor Magali Delmas.That could help Delmas, a management professor with the... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=135230" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:14:31 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>Her career path is upward bound</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/her-career-path-is-upward-bound-86563.aspx?link_page_rss=86563</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/her-career-path-is-upward-bound-86563.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Suzanne Jett wants her coworkers to know that they can learn new skills, take on new responsibilities, aspire to greater things on the job — and find all the help they need right here on campus. 

Jett, who works at the front desk of the UCLA Guest House... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=133511" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:11:01 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><author>Phil Hampton and Judy Lin</author><title>Teaching eco ethics in the Ecuadorean rainforest</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/teaching-eco-ethics-jordan-karubian-85624.aspx?link_page_rss=85624</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/teaching-eco-ethics-jordan-karubian-85624.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[On a muddy road in an Ecuadorean rainforest in 2002, Jordan Karubian happened upon an anteater hacked by a machete and near death — an apparent victim of wanton cruelty. Local boys were puzzled by Karubian's distress. So what, they thought, it's just... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=131680" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:01:16 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><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>Kathleen Micham</author><title>Mark O'Connor: fiddler on the campus</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/renowned-violinist-and-fiddler-84703.aspx?link_page_rss=84703</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/renowned-violinist-and-fiddler-84703.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Grammy Award-winning violinist and fiddler Mark O'Connor took time off from a busy schedule of touring and recording to spend March 1 to March 6 at UCLA, where he served an enthusiastic stint as inaugural artist-in-residence at the UCLA Herb... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=128220" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:37:09 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>Ajay Singh</author><title>Unraveling the legal threads entangling race in America</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/unraveling-the-legal-threads-entangling-84446.aspx?link_page_rss=84446</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/unraveling-the-legal-threads-entangling-84446.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[In law schools and ethnic studies centers across the nation, Renee Rodgers is a familiar name. She’s the one-time African American employee of American Airlines whose hair had a classic all-American look — except it fell to her shoulders in tight braids... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=127424" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:00:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Bethany Powers</author><title>A composer of all trades</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/a-composer-of-all-trades-84288.aspx?link_page_rss=84288</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/a-composer-of-all-trades-84288.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Video games like Halo 3 and a Carnegie Hall opera in New York wouldn't normally go together. But it's all in a day's work for Emmy-winning UCLA Professor Laura Karpman, a composer whose comfort and skill range across strikingly different genres.
 

... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=127040" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:10:45 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Wendy Soderburg</author><title>UCLA's famed former quarterback completes final 'pass'</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-s-famed-former-quarterback-84276.aspx?link_page_rss=84276</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-s-famed-former-quarterback-84276.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[When Troy Aikman completed his last season as quarterback of the UCLA football team in fall of 1988, he left without completing his degree. Not that he had much of a choice, mind you — as the No. 1 draft pick in 1989, he was snatched up and signed by... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=126833" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:50:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Ajay Singh</author><title>The crisis in Latino education: 10 questions for Patricia Gándara</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/the-crisis-in-latino-education-83948.aspx?link_page_rss=83948</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/the-crisis-in-latino-education-83948.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Stuck in underfunded schools, with virtually no guidance or social support at home, Latinos face a bleak future. Their predicament bodes ill for the nation unless urgent reform is undertaken, maintains Patricia Gándara in a timely and sobering book,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=125734" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:39:56 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><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>Making a 'Big Bang' on TV: 10 questions with David Saltzberg</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/making-a-big-bang-on-tv-10-questions-83027.aspx?link_page_rss=83027</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/making-a-big-bang-on-tv-10-questions-83027.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[If you watch the popular CBS sitcom &quot;The Big Bang Theory&quot; about a group of brilliant but socially inept science postdocs, you're familiar with the work of UCLA Physics Professor David Saltzberg.
 

 
Professor David Saltzberg, left, with &quot;Big... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=124629" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:56:57 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Ajay Singh</author><title>Lessons in Buddhism from an iconoclastic scholar</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/lessons-in-buddhism-from-an-iconoclastic-82918.aspx?link_page_rss=82918</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/lessons-in-buddhism-from-an-iconoclastic-82918.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[As one of the world’s leading authorities on Buddhism, Gregory Schopen has shattered many myths, notably the notion that Buddhist monks in ancient India renounced money and property. 

While his painstaking research certainly helped Schopen demystify... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=123617" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:10:40 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>Bruin screenwriter wins Oscar for 'Milk'</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/bruin-screenwriter-wins-oscar-82690.aspx?link_page_rss=82690</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/bruin-screenwriter-wins-oscar-82690.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Taking home an Oscar Sunday night, Feb. 22, for best original screenplay was UCLA alumnus Dustin Lance Black, whose arduous research on and writing of the screenplay for &quot;Milk&quot; finally propelled the long-stalled biopic project to the screen.... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=122341" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:53:07 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Ajay Singh</author><title>Former vice chancellor offers strategies for transforming inner-city America</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/former-vice-chancellor-offers-82399.aspx?link_page_rss=82399</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/former-vice-chancellor-offers-82399.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Charles Z. Wilson was 16 years old when he left the Mississippi Delta with $50 in his pocket and joined the “Great Migration” of African Americans from the rural south to the urban north. His aim: to overcome color, racial and class barriers and realize... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=120932" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:43:04 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Staff Applause -- Feb. 19, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-applause-feb-19-2009-82020.aspx?link_page_rss=82020</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-applause-feb-19-2009-82020.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[CENIC, the nonprofit corporation that provides K-20 public education in California with ultra-high-bandwidth networking to the state's fiber-optic network for research and education, has selected Scott Friedman, a program analyst with UCLA's Institute... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=119914" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:18:08 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Mary Daily</author><title>She's here, there, everywhere -- going beyond the call of duty</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/she-s-here-there-everywhere-beyond-81936.aspx?link_page_rss=81936</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/she-s-here-there-everywhere-beyond-81936.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Anyone who expected Chancellor Block’s wife to fill only a ceremonial role, smiling alongside her husband, doesn't know Carol Block. After a year and a half at UCLA, Mrs. Block has become a familiar presence not only to faculty, staff and students, but... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=119659" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:46:34 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>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>Wendy Soderburg</author><title>'And the winner is' ... taking home a Grammy</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/and-the-winner-is-taking-home-81869.aspx?link_page_rss=81869</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/and-the-winner-is-taking-home-81869.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[What’s it like to win a Grammy? 

Just ask Gloria Cheng, concert pianist and member of the UCLA Music Department faculty, who sat in agony for nearly two hours — through seemingly endless categories of Hawaiian music, gospel, bluegrass, polka, rap and... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=119197" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:54:59 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><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>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><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><title>Staff Applause — Feb. 5, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-applause-80527.aspx?link_page_rss=80527</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-applause-80527.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
 
Chris Roberts (left) and Bill BennettFormer UCLA associate sports information director Bill Bennett and play-by-play announcer Chris Roberts, the longtime “Voice of the Bruins,” have packed 90 years of football history into their new book, “UCLA... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=115124" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:09:24 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><author>Melissa Lambarena</author><title>After Hours — The Runner</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/after-hours-the-runner-80425.aspx?link_page_rss=80425</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/after-hours-the-runner-80425.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[“After Hours” is a series about faculty and staff who balance their work lives with fascinating, all-consuming hobbies or side jobs. Here you’ll meet a UCLA staffer who takes advantage of his idyllic work location to pursue his passion. 

Name: Tony... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=114790" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:59:16 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><title>UCLA law alumna appointed U.S. senator from New York</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-law-alumna-appointed-u-s-79380.aspx?link_page_rss=79380</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-law-alumna-appointed-u-s-79380.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA Law alumna Kirsten Gillibrand was appointed Jan. 23 by New York Gov. David A. Paterson to fill the United States Senate seat vacated by new Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Prior to her appointment, Gillibrand had been serving her second... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=108424" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:14:28 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>Sound Bites: What should President Obama do first?</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/sound-bites-what-should-president-78593.aspx?link_page_rss=78593</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/sound-bites-what-should-president-78593.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Cynthia Cordova, assistant to the dean, Graduate School of Education &amp; Information Studies 
I would like President Obama to continue down the road of change and equality for all by giving gay and lesbians equal rights, starting with repealing the... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=107133" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:59:51 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 Vinay Lal</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/10-questions-for-vinay-lal-78509.aspx?link_page_rss=78509</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/10-questions-for-vinay-lal-78509.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[What does Louisiana’s Republican governor, Bobby Jindal, have in common with the Democratic U.S. Surgeon General-designate Sanjay Gupta? They’re both Americans of Indian descent. Going by the title of a witty and insightful book by Vinay Lal, associate... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=106891" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:28:18 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></channel></rss>
