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Nov 23, 2009
In Professor David Kaye's law course, students go where the action is in international human rights. For these motivated students, who study the mechanisms of justice for war crimes and crimes against humanity and genocide, that arena is The Hague...
Nov 23, 2009
In the rush to make plans for Thanksgiving or to start that holiday gift list before Black Friday sales, don't forget that Open Enrollment will close at 5 p.m. tomorrow (Tuesday, Nov. 24). If you wait until the end November to make...
Nov 20, 2009
Seeking to restore funding cuts that have led to furloughs and fee increases, the University of California will advocate for a $913 million increase in its allocation from the state as part of a budget plan for fiscal year 2010-11 to be presented to...
Nov 19, 2009
Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas addresses the media after the UC regents approved a UC-county partnership to reopen Martin Luther King Jr. Hospital. Regent William De La Peña and Chancellor Gene Block appear in...
Nov 19, 2009
UCLA has come a long way from 2006 when enrollment of 100 African American freshmen was at a 30-year low, Chancellor Gene Block told the UC regents during a Nov. 18 meeting at Covel Commons. Over the last three years, UCLA has managed to double that...
Nov 17, 2009
Charging a fee to companies that hire university graduates and eliminating student fees were among the ideas the UC Commission on the Future heard at its meeting in Oakland on Nov. 12.
Launched in September, the commission's goal is to...
Nov 10, 2009
University of California campuses are still looking for Japanese-American students who had their studies derailed by being interned during World War II. Ceremonies to award honorary degrees to the former students are set for December and spring...
Nov 04, 2009
The LARC (Los Angeles Regional Collaborative for Climate Action and Sustainability) hopes to transform the Los Angeles region.
In a unique effort to address climate change, experts with UCLA's Institute of the Environment (IOE) have been tapped...
Nov 03, 2009
The national H1N1 flu vaccine shortage is hitting the University of California, where campuses and medical centers have scant supplies.
"The H1N1 vaccine is trickling in at best at the medical centers, and it's almost nonexistent at campuses,"...
Nov 03, 2009
When President Barack Obama led a session of the United Nations Security Council last September, one that produced a resolution calling for countries to support a world without nuclear weapons, he became the first U.S. president to ever do so.
That...