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School of Nursing, LAUSD get middle schoolers moving

Kynna Wright-Vogel 2
Funded by a $1.2 million grant, Kynna Wright-Volel, assistant professor and Robert Wood Johnson Nurse Faculty Scholar, the UCLA School of Nursing and the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) have launched Project SHAPE LA, a coordinate...

Civil rights activist receives honorary doctorate from Penn State

Photo Gary Orfield
Gary Orfield, co-director of the Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles and a professor of education, law, political science, and urban planning, received an honorary doctoral degree in humane letters from Pennsylvania State University. He...

Law professor honored as one of SoCal's Freedom's Sisters

Kimberl Crenshaw
Kimberlé Crenshaw, professor of law, was recently honored as one of Southern California’s Freedom’s Sisters in an exhibition at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles. The Freedom's Sisters exhibition celebrated hist...

Professor appointed to National Research Council committee

Mark Kleiman
Mark Kleiman, professor of publicy policy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, has been appointed to the Committee on Law and Justice, a standing committee within the National Research Council. The committee was formed to increase scientif...
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Grants and Gifts

Endocrine Surgery Program receives grant to treat uninsured patients

Yeh
The UCLA Endocrine Surgery Program has received a $25,000 grant from the Christopher Murphy Foundation to establish a fund to provide need-based financial assistance to patients being treated for thyroid cancer.   Dr. Michael Yeh, ...
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Transitions

Associate professor of education named
co-director of CSE/CRESST

Li Cai
Li Cai, an associate professor of education, has been named co-director of the Center for the Study of Evaluation/Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CSE/CRESST) at UCLA's Graduate School of Education & Info...
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In Memoriam

In Memoriam: Leo Snowiss, political science professor

Leo Snowiss, a longtime political science professor who taught at UCLA for 35 years, died Jan. 4 at his Claremont, Calif., home of complications from congestive heart disease. He was 76.   Snowiss earned his bachelor’s degree from t...
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