<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ><channel><atom:link href="http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/faculty-rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut</link><language>en-us</language><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2012 16:02:00 GMT</pubDate><title>Faculty News</title><description /><copyright>UCLA Today</copyright><generator>iPressroom.com</generator><item><author>Jack Feuer</author><title>Three profs go back to school</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/three-profs-go-back-to-school-235766.aspx?link_page_rss=235766</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/three-profs-go-back-to-school-235766.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[What happens when professors become students again? What pressures do they face? What epiphanies do they have? A fellowship allowed three UCLA profs to go back to class in a complementary discipline, where they also ended up learning about themselves. <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=695301" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2012 16:02:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Courtney Lyder</author><title>Hospitals, patients reap rewards from nurse-led research</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/hospitals-patients-reap-rewards-214296.aspx?link_page_rss=214296</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/hospitals-patients-reap-rewards-214296.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Courtney Lyder is professor and dean of the UCLA School of Nursing and assistant director of the UCLA Health System. His op-ed appeared originally on August 23, 2011 in Hospital Impact. 

 
The last decade has seen an increased... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=680408" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 23:11:35 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Wendy Soderburg</author><title>Social psychologist is winner of 2011 Gold Shield Faculty Prize</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/matthew-lieberman-207885.aspx?link_page_rss=207885</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/matthew-lieberman-207885.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[

Psychology Professor Matt Lieberman

&quot;I first saw Dr. Matt Lieberman taking the stage of a lecture hall as my professor for social psychology about five months ago. He was wearing flip-flops, a pair of khaki pants and a casual blue polo, making... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=676058" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:00:37 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Chancellor Emeritus Charles Young to give Bollens-Ries-Hoffenberg Lecture</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/chancellor-emeritus-charles-young-199664.aspx?link_page_rss=199664</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/chancellor-emeritus-charles-young-199664.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Chancellor Emeritus Charles E. Young will deliver the 25th Bollens-Ries-Hoffenberg Lecture Thursday, April 21, at the Faculty Center's California Room. Young's lecture, &quot;The State of California and its University,&quot; is being sponsored by... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=672751" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 22:28:28 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>UCLA Today staff</author><title>Senate considers residential conference center and faculty club project</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/conference-center-story-193478.aspx?link_page_rss=193478</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/conference-center-story-193478.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The Academic Senate&rsquo;s Council on Planning and Budget has received presentations from senior administrators and Faculty Center leaders on the proposed residential conference center and faculty club project, and is expected to issue its own... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=671824" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 22:55:02 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>Neuroscientist helps pave way for Dalai Lama's visit</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/lopsang-rapgay-192875.aspx?link_page_rss=192875</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/lopsang-rapgay-192875.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[In 1958, 4-year-old Lobsang Rapgay and his family fled their home in Lhasa, Tibet. Joining a caravan of some three dozen fellow refugees, they headed into the Himalayas on a treacherous, seven-day trek to India while, behind them, Mao Tse... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=671216" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 22:48:40 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Ramesh Srinivasan</author><title>The net worth of open networks</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/the-net-worth-of-open-networks-192513.aspx?link_page_rss=192513</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/the-net-worth-of-open-networks-192513.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Assistant Professor Ramesh Srinivasan of UCLA&rsquo;s Department of Information Studies and Design/Media Arts studies and participates in projects using new media technologies to impact political revolutions, economic development and... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=670806" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 23:33:47 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Carolyn McMillan</author><title>UC faculty continue to excel despite lagging salaries</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/uc-faculty-continue-to-excel-despite-190927.aspx?link_page_rss=190927</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/uc-faculty-continue-to-excel-despite-190927.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UC faculty continue to perform at top levels, with significant numbers receiving prestigious awards and honors for their work, according to a recently released report on faculty competitiveness.
 
At the same time, a range of challenges must be... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=669169" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 23:15:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Tyler Burge</author><title>Neurobabble obscures deeper significance of brain science</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/neurobabble-obscures-the-deeper-189981.aspx?link_page_rss=189981</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/neurobabble-obscures-the-deeper-189981.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Tyler Burge is the author of &quot;Foundations of Mind&quot; (Clarendon, 2007), a collection of essays exploring the nature of consciousness. The following was originally published on Dec. 19, 2010, in the New... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=668491" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 19:39:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Mary Daily</author><title>Faculty give to UCLA to show they care</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/faculty-give-back-to-ucla-to-show-188812.aspx?link_page_rss=188812</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/faculty-give-back-to-ucla-to-show-188812.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
 
Stellar faculty add luster to the university through teaching, research and service. But many have also contributed to UCLA as generous donors, giving back at a rate twice that of UCLA alumni. It may come as a surprise to some in the Bruin... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=667749" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 17:19:33 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>Verbatim — exercising with God, pawn stars, Prop. 19, Halloween sexualized, more</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-pawn-stars-prop-19-the-177617.aspx?link_page_rss=177617</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-pawn-stars-prop-19-the-177617.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The UCLA faculty is quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent selection.
 
&quot;The stuff we have in our arsenal as physicians &mdash; our medicine and our surgeries &mdash; can&rsquo;t cure... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=665473" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 19:03:08 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>10 Questions for Tim Groeling on the power of political ads</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/10-questions-for-tim-groeling-177096.aspx?link_page_rss=177096</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/10-questions-for-tim-groeling-177096.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Tim Groeling, associate professor and chair of the Communication Studies Department, is an expert on political communications and new media. He introduces undergraduates to the art and impact of television political commercials in his popular... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=665139" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:46:57 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>Steven Reise, Psychology Department professor and measurement area chair</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/steven-reise-psychology-department-155817.aspx?link_page_rss=155817</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/steven-reise-psychology-department-155817.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Reise entered the Distinguished Teaching competition with a handicap: He teaches statistics to psychology students.
 
&quot;A very high proportion of our undergraduate majors take statistics not because they want to but because they have to, and,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=652157" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:30:53 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Wendy Soderburg</author><title>Distinguished Teaching Award Winner Katsushi Arisaka, professor of physics and astronomy</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/katsushi-arisaka-professor-of-155816.aspx?link_page_rss=155816</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/katsushi-arisaka-professor-of-155816.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Undoubtedly, one of the most difficult tasks for an instructor is teaching a subject that many students dread or — worse yet — have no interest in. So it’s a special professor indeed who not only manages to get his students to willingly come to... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=652158" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:27:34 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Wendy Soderburg</author><title>Distinguished Teaching Award WinnerJerry Kang, professor of law</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/jerry-kang-law-professor-155815.aspx?link_page_rss=155815</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/jerry-kang-law-professor-155815.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Kang has said that he tries hard not to romanticize students; in fact, he completely rejects the idea that one should teach “in ways that curry student favor, popularity or adoration.”
 
Yet despite that admission — or perhaps because of it —... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=652159" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:23:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>Daniel Blumstein, professor and chair of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/daniel-blumstein-professor-and-155813.aspx?link_page_rss=155813</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/daniel-blumstein-professor-and-155813.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Distinguished Teaching Award winners like Blumstein are often recognized for their excellence in teaching, research and publishing that research. Blumstein also stands out for the sheer number of students whom he has led to publication in top... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=652160" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:16:42 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>Faculty take history to prime time</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/faculty-take-history-to-prime-155480.aspx?link_page_rss=155480</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/faculty-take-history-to-prime-155480.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[How do you get America&rsquo;s couch potatoes fired up about history? Team celebrities with historians &mdash; two UCLA faculty among them &mdash; in a prime time TV reality show about the quintessential search for one&rsquo;s... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=641573" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:06:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Cynthia Lee</author><title>Head of faculty diversity decides to step down</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/head-of-faculty-diversity-decides-154416.aspx?link_page_rss=154416</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/head-of-faculty-diversity-decides-154416.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Rosina M. Becerra, vice provost for faculty diversity and development, has decided to step down as vice provost and and return to the faculty at the end of this academic year, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Scott Waugh announced this... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=588654" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:03:52 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>After Hours: The opera composer</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/after-hours-the-opera-composer-154332.aspx?link_page_rss=154332</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/after-hours-the-opera-composer-154332.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Name: Dr. Kenneth Wells
 
Title: Professor of psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine and School of Public Health, director of the UCLA Health Services Research Center and adjunct staff member at the RAND Corp.
 
Second Life:... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=585793" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:24:44 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Paul Feinberg</author><title>Ridding the world of breast cancer</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/susan-love-151472.aspx?link_page_rss=151472</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/susan-love-151472.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[

Dr. Susan Love is enlisting an army of women in her battle to eradicate breast cancer.

Dr. Susan Love wants to eradicate breast cancer. It&rsquo;s a goal simply stated, but not so simply achieved.
 
A featured speaker at UCLA... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=486040" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:17:50 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>Honor or abandon: Societies' treatment of elderly intrigues scholar</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/jared-diamond-on-aging-150571.aspx?link_page_rss=150571</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/jared-diamond-on-aging-150571.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[When people grow old in traditional villages in Fiji, family and friends care for them at home until their dying days. In America, the elderly are more typically sent to nursing homes &mdash; a contrast that may appear unfeeling, even cruel. But the... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=467470" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:13:01 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Cynthia Lee</author><title>Low-paid workers in L.A. face high rate of workplace abuse, UCLA survey shows</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-survey-finds-low-paid-workers-150535.aspx?link_page_rss=150535</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-survey-finds-low-paid-workers-150535.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[An alarmingly high number of Los Angeles County workers at the bottom of the labor market are the victims of &quot;wage theft&quot; and other workplace violations by employers, who on average deprive workers of 12.5 percent of their weekly paycheck, according... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=464943" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:45:29 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Kevin Matthews</author><title>East meets West in scholar John Duncan</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/scholar-john-duncan-lives-in-the-149995.aspx?link_page_rss=149995</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/scholar-john-duncan-lives-in-the-149995.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[John Duncan, director of the UCLA Center for Korean Studies, doubts he would have become a scholar at all if it hadn’t been for his experiences along the Korean demilitarized zone in the late sixties. Stationed there as a 19-year-old American G.I.,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=404179" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:43:19 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Paul Feinberg</author><title>10 Questions for William Ouchi, public education expert</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/10-questions-for-william-ouchi-149940.aspx?link_page_rss=149940</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/10-questions-for-william-ouchi-149940.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA Anderson Professor William Ouchi, who teaches courses in management and organization design and conducts research on the structure of large organizations, once said the whole point of tenure is that it affords one the opportunity to influence... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=401085" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:41:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Steven L. Spiegel</author><title>Why Obama’s Mideast policy can work</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/why-obama-s-mideast-policy-can-111181.aspx?link_page_rss=111181</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/why-obama-s-mideast-policy-can-111181.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Steven L. Spiegel is a professor of political science and director of the Center for Middle East Development at UCLA.
 
I am sick and tired of hearing about how Obama is &ldquo;not good for the Jews,&rdquo; or, as a friend of mine put it recently,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=324625" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:36:28 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Cynthia Lee</author><title>Young to receive 2009 Clark Kerr Medal for his leadership in higher ed</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/young-to-receive-2009-clark-kerr-102570.aspx?link_page_rss=102570</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/young-to-receive-2009-clark-kerr-102570.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA Chancellor Emeritus Charles E. Young has been selected to receive the 2009 Clark Kerr Medal for Distinguished Leadership in Higher Education, the highest award given by the UC Berkeley Academic Senate, for his extraordinary contribution to the advancement... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=300250" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:59:58 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Verbatim: gender &amp; sports, soda &amp; obesity, paralyzed rats walk, soap-opera realism &amp; more</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-gender-in-the-olympics-102268.aspx?link_page_rss=102268</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-gender-in-the-olympics-102268.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA faculty are quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent selection:

 

&quot;Having testes, for instance, certainly does not make you necessarily a male, even as an advantage to compete against... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=281047" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:25:58 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>New program to create clean-tech leaders wins NSF stimulus funding</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/new-program-to-create-clean-tech-97803.aspx?link_page_rss=97803</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/new-program-to-create-clean-tech-97803.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[As the country presses forward in developing green energy and Los Angeles strives to become a hub of clean technology, UCLA Associate Professor Diana Huffaker noticed there was one thing still missing: a program to train the future leaders of environmental... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=193760" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:55:01 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>College lecturers get one-year advance notice of possible layoffs</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/college-lecturers-get-one-year-97356.aspx?link_page_rss=97356</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/college-lecturers-get-one-year-97356.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[A letter notifying 67 lecturers in the College of Letters and Science that they may be laid off a year from now was sent Wednesday, July 29, by the deans of the divisions of Physical Sciences, the Social Sciences and the Humanities. 

Notices went out... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=180701" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Dan Gordon</author><title>Confronting the eye of the storm</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/confronting-the-eye-of-the-storm-96004.aspx?link_page_rss=96004</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/confronting-the-eye-of-the-storm-96004.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
The day Kristen Corbosiero started her postdoctoral training at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans.

While the tragedy that ensued heightened awareness about the dangers of hurricanes and the... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=156886" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:08:12 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Robin Heffler</author><title>Challenging conventional concepts of art</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/challenging-the-concepts-of-art-96002.aspx?link_page_rss=96002</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/challenging-the-concepts-of-art-96002.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[As an art historian, Miwon Kwon doesn’t focus on the paintings, sculptures and other mainstays of traditional art. Instead, she is immersed in the study of forms of modern art that challenge both our ideas of what art is and how it should be managed.

“I’m... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=188706" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:32:27 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><title>Applause -- June 2, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-june-2-2009-93609.aspx?link_page_rss=93609</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-june-2-2009-93609.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Each year, the David Geffen School of Medicine honors exceptional educators with the Awards for Excellence in Education and the Serge and Yvette Dadone Clinical Teaching Award in honor of Dr. Saleh Salehmoghaddam. The winners of the Award for Excellence... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=153819" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:44:45 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><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></channel></rss>