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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:58:02 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UC seeking $913 million increase in state funding</title>
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<description><![CDATA[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...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=355387" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:24:22 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>10 questions: Mike Rose, expert on K-12 schools</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mike Rose, an award-winning author and celebrated professor at the Graduate School of Education &amp; Information Studies, asks Americans to reflect on the purposes of public education in his new book, &quot;Why School: Reclaiming Education for All of...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=355386" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:25:48 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Verbatim -- space telescope, Obama in China, human language genes and breast cancer</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The UCLA faculty is quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=355374" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:07:37 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UC to help reopen South L.A.'s MLK hospital</title>
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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 Pe&ntilde;a and Chancellor Gene Block appear in...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=355373" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:38:13 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Campus groups working with L.A. children, youth join forces</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Scores of campus organizations that deliver UCLA services to children and youth in Los Angeles-area schools came together recently to connect and collaborate.
 
Bruin Corps, the UCLA Volunteer Center, the Latin American Institute and Mattel...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=355377" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:41:52 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Block warns of challenges ahead for student diversity</title>
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<description><![CDATA[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...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=355372" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:28:17 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>L.A.'s Latinos, African Americans share 'dismal' quality of life</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Latino and African-American residents of the Los Angeles metro area have more in common than they may think, suggests a new policy brief from UCLA&rsquo;s Chicano Studies Research Center.
 
On key quality-of-life measures, both groups lag...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=355381" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:40:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Reading between the lines: Legislature's fiscal advisers endorse privatizing UC</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Daniel J.B. Mitchell is professor emeritus in the UCLA Anderson School of Management and the School of Public Affairs.
 
Undoubtedly, you will have seen headlines about a recent report from the Legislative Analyst&rsquo;s Office (LAO)...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=355311" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:04:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Holiday season's the time to help those in need</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Every year, numerous UCLA departments invite the campus community to join them in making the holidays happier for many throughout Los Angeles. Here are some opportunities to get involved:
 
Holiday Toy Drive
 
Being hospitalized can be...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=355370" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:06:04 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UC-wide institute to address global health woes</title>
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Patricia Conrad has studied sick cattle in Africa, discovered a parasitic killer of California sea otters and stared down a charging rhino.
 
But now she is undertaking what could be her boldest adventure yet: helping start the new...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=355263" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:10:52 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UC Commission on the Future hears radical funding ideas</title>
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<description><![CDATA[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...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=355262" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:39:50 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Mattel pediatricians offer tips on flu vaccines, healthy weight</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Doctors from Mattel Children's Hospital gave advice on the H1N1 (swine flu) vaccine, along with tips for helping kids maintain a healthy weight, to UCLA staff and faculty at a Staff Assembly Learn-at-Lunch meeting on Nov. 10.
 
&quot;Each year,...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=355237" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:16:34 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Sidebar: Putting presidents' words to music</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Read the main article: Lincoln inspires a return to the &quot;great books&quot;
 
Exactly 146 years ago, President Abraham Lincoln delivered one of the most monumental speeches in United States history &ndash; the Gettysburg Address. President...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=355189" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:49:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UC ramps up advocacy campaign</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The University of California is calling on all students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends to unite behind an aggressive push to make funding UC a state priority.  With the state 2010-11 budget cycle beginning in early January, UC is stepping up...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=355142" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:11:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>FITWELL programs highlight spiritual health</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Two upcoming events hosted by the FITWELL program will focus not only on exercising the body, but on exercising the mind and spirit as well.
 
The events' attention to alternative health practices is part of the FITWELL philosophy, said...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=355138" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:05:58 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UC searches for interned Japanese-American students to receive honorary degrees</title>
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<description><![CDATA[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...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=355095" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:03:46 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Lincoln inspires a return to the &amp;quot;great books&amp;quot;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Read the sidebar: Putting presidents' words to music
 
UCLA Law Professor Daniel Lowenstein has always held Abraham Lincoln in high regard as a statesman and president, but making time for a serious read of Lincoln's writings was another...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=355093" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:07:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Connecting Watts with Westwood</title>
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A day in Watts, just 30 minutes from Westwood.

&ldquo;Going to UCLA, I feel like a lot of students are so caught up in this &lsquo;bubble&rsquo;,&rdquo; hardly aware of rough-edged Los Angeles beyond Westwood.
 
Terry Kim, who made...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=355094" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:47:57 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Wesley Clark: Can NATO survive Afghanistan?</title>
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Twenty years after the Berlin Wall fell and NATO's raison d'&ecirc;tre was thrown into question, former NATO chief and retired U.S. Gen. Wesley Clark reflected on how the organization's tumultuous existence in the '90s reflects on its precarious...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=355090" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:40:39 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>A visual legacy of Asian-American studies</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Sometime in the early 1970s, a rally was photographed on the steps of Campbell Hall. Charles Young was chancellor. Cuts were being proposed to UCLA&rsquo;s ethnic studies programs. And, as was typical of those heady years of activism, the students...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=355085" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:37:56 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>After Hours: The Vintner</title>
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<description><![CDATA[
 
Think about those times you&rsquo;ve treated yourself to a refreshing glass of wine after a long, hard day of work. How much more satisfying would it be to know that you made the wine yourself? In this latest installment of &ldquo;After...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=355084" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:54:26 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Verbatim — Same-sex parents, TV fashions, cosmic rays and immigrant healthcare</title>
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<description><![CDATA[UCLA faculty are quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent selection:
 
&ldquo;Clearly, in the minds of same-sex couples who are marrying or think of themselves as married, you are not decoupling...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=355058" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:46:45 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Lighting a fire for human rights</title>
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<description><![CDATA[When Jack Healey, founder and president of the Human Rights Action Center, came to UCLA on Nov. 5, his purpose was clear: to inspire undergraduates to dedicate themselves to the universal struggle for human rights, as he has done for nearly three decades.

Jack...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=355055" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:35:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Explore the Universe — on south campus</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The sun, the moon and the stars &mdash; enjoy all this and more during &ldquo;Exploring the Universe,&rdquo; a family-friendly open house presented by UCLA&rsquo;s departments of Physics and Astronomy, Earth and Space Sciences, and Atmospheric Sciences....<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=355013" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>From war to Westwood: when soldiers become students</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A new UCLA class is reaching out to a unique kind of incoming Bruin: veterans relearning how to live as civilians after service in the military. In the safety of the all-vets class, they discuss their impatience with students who think midterms...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=354998" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:28:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Prof reveals Florence Nightingale's political side</title>
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Florence Nightingale's image and writings are on display at UCLA's Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, including the large blue book above. It's a 1,000-page report she wrote for a royal commission that was used to improve hospital...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=354982" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:41:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UC postdoc fellowship program encourages diversity</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A walk in the woods around Lake Arrowhead helped Wayne Yang solve a major career conundrum: whether to accept a coveted tenure-track faculty position at UC San Diego. Yang strolled in the forest with Sheila O'Rourke, director of the UC President's Postdoctoral...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=354975" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:19:09 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UCLA experts take lead in regional climate plan</title>
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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...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=354940" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:56:08 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Staff honors</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Landscape Architecture Program Director Stephanie Landregan recently was installed as the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) national vice president of government affairs at ASLA&rsquo;s annual meeting and expo, held this year in Chicago....<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=354907" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:05:11 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UCLA researchers bring in $4M a day in research contracts, grants</title>
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<description><![CDATA[UCLA researchers have had spectacular success over the last four months in getting their research proposals funded, bringing in an average of $4 million each day.
 
If the current pace continues, they may break their 2008-09 all-time record for...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=354906" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:46:31 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>H1N1 vaccine scarce at UC campuses, medical centers</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The national H1N1 flu vaccine shortage is hitting the University of California, where campuses and medical centers have scant supplies.
 
&quot;The H1N1 vaccine is trickling in at best at the medical centers, and it's almost nonexistent at campuses,&quot;...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=354900" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:34:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Obama committed to working with international institutions, official says</title>
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<description><![CDATA[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...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=354891" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:32:47 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>University of California ranks among best in the world</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The 2009 rankings from the Institute of Higher Education at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China place seven University of California campuses among the top 50 universities in the world. The rankings, which include both public and private institutions,...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=354606" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:00:27 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UCLA center helps L.A. nonprofits weather recession</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Most Los Angeles-area nonprofit organizations have experienced reductions in funding from government and private foundations, while costs and demands for their services have risen. Yet the nonprofits largely have been able to retain their volunteers,...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=354601" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:23:53 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Help a family in need</title>
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<description><![CDATA[For the past 17 holiday seasons, the UCLA Health System Auxiliary has coordinated the Adopt-a-Family Program, supporting hundreds of families who are experiencing extraordinary challenges. The program provides support for basic needs as well as holiday...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=354547" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:22:40 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Comics artist R. Crumb recasts Bible's Book of Genesis</title>
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<description><![CDATA[His hair flows back from his head and mingles with his long beard, and as he cups a swirling, black vortex in his hands, God begins “to create Heaven and Earth.”
 
Once difficult to imagine, this scene from the first paragraph of the Bible’s Genesis...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=354548" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:09:46 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Campus map 2.0: Collaborators welcome</title>
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<description><![CDATA[
 
UCLA's newest map makes searching easier and includes additional useful information about campus buildings and points of interest.Last November, Campus General Services unveiled an online campus map that, for the first time, let users...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=354543" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:17:21 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Faculty Research Lecturer’s advice: Whistle a healthy tune</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Steven Clarke, professor of biochemistry in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and director of the Molecular Biology Institute, is getting ready to deliver the 107th Faculty Research Lecture on Tuesday, Nov. 3, one of the highest honors given...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=354525" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:00:32 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>How 40 years of the Internet changed the world</title>
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The Internet's 40th anniversary conference had something the 30th lacked: a pop-culture panel. Panelists, from left: John Taylor, bassist in the band Duran Duran; John Perry Barlow, Electronic Frontier Foundation; and from World-of-Warcraft producer...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=354540" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:24:16 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Scholar survives political imprisonment in Iran</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In a book review for Ms. Magazine, Nikki Keddie, professor emeritus of history at UCLA, called Haleh Esfandiari's life story, as told in her book &quot;My Prison, My Home&quot;&hellip; a story of faith in the human capacity to withstand&hellip;&rdquo;
 
On...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=354514" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:26:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Researcher offers her hope for release from lifelong pain</title>
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<description><![CDATA[For as long as she can remember, Summer Harris has been in pain. Sometimes dull, throbbing pain, but often pain so piercing that she feels &quot;like somebody is stabbing me in the back and legs, my head, my knees.&quot; It can last for hours or linger on for...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=354513" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:49:53 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Crime alert: Former faculty member is missing</title>
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<description><![CDATA[UCLA police are looking for Philip Agre, a former associate professor of information sciences.
 
Agre, 49, was reported missing by his sister, who has not seen Agre since spring 2008. An out-of-state resident, Agre's sister said she...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=354496" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:33:12 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Navigating UCLA gets easier for students with new Bruin Resource Center</title>
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<description><![CDATA[UCLA students who grew up in foster homes, served in the military or are trying to balance studies with parenting may not seem to have much in common, but their personal challenges to completing their degrees may be similar.
 
For example, veterans...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=354490" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:52:11 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>United Way's HomeWalk to help shelter homeless</title>
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<description><![CDATA[There's a way you can help homeless families in greater Los Angeles get off the streets or out of their cars where people have sought shelter and into an apartment.
 
Come walk five kilometers with the United Way of Greater Los Angeles on Saturday,...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=354473" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:39:33 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Crime alert: Police seek suspect in sexual assault</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Police are looking for a man who sexually assaulted a woman in the early morning hours of Friday, Oct. 23.
 
The victim left her vehicle parked near the intersection of Veteran Boulevard and Gayley Avenue around 1...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=354445" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:51:23 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Staff In Memoriam: Jaime Rivas</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Jaime Rivas, platelet coordinator for the UCLA Blood and Platelet Center, died at age 59 after a sudden illness Oct. 16 while on vacation in Costa Rica. As an employee with more than 25 years of service at UCLA, Rivas developed longtime relationships...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=354422" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:39:53 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Change your mind, change your life</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Want to improve your life? Then rewire your brain, advises UCLA professor of clinical psychiatry Dr. Daniel Siegel in his new book, &ldquo;Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation.&rdquo; Dr. Siegel will talk about this breakthrough concept...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=354443" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:20:16 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Navy Secretary thanks UCLA team behind Operation Mend</title>
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<description><![CDATA[UCLA&rsquo;s Operation Mend program and the UCLA Health System welcomed the U.S. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus to the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center on Oct. 22.
 


Cpl. Louis Dahlman (left), who has undergone facial reconstructive surgery,...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=354367" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:04:53 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Verbatim -- Internet brains, medical marijuana, soda sweeteners and animal research</title>
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<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;Performing Internet searches for even a relatively short period of time can change brain activity patterns and enhance...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=354337" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:27:35 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Internet turns 40 at UCLA</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s hard to imagine a world without the Internet, but 40 years ago it was only an idea &mdash; bold and untested. History was made Oct. 29, 1969, when computer scientists succeeded in transmitting the first message between two computers located...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=354336" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:56:42 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Beat ’SC in fitness</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Boost your fitness and tackle UCLA’s cross-town rival in the 3rd annual Pac-10 Fitness Challenge October 26-30. Staff, faculty and students are encouraged to pursue a more vigorous daily routine and higher quality of life through a “Beat ’SC” competition...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=354334" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:52:11 GMT</pubDate>
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