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<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 12:44:20 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Regents call for re-investment in higher ed</title>
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<description><![CDATA[With state budget negotiations in full swing, members of the University of California Board of Regents will join students in Sacramento today (May 15) to call on lawmakers to re-invest in public higher education.
 
Regents will remain in the...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692981" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 20:16:27 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Author/basketball great KareemAbdul-Jabbar draws a crowd</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Kareem Abdul-Jabbar drew a crowd at Ackerman on Alumni Day as he signed his newest book for fans: &quot;What Color is My World?:The Lost History of African American Inventors.&quot; He was later joined by Bruin Olympian, Ann Meyers Drysdale,...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692932" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 20:31:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Doctors, others share sad stories of mothers worldwide</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Somewhere on the planet, there's a woman facing death in the midst of giving life.
 
Roughly 1,000 women die each day due to pregnancy-related causes. For every woman who dies, there are 20 to 30 more who will suffer from lifelong disabilities...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692781" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 23:30:20 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Verbatim — Charles Dickens, Cinco de Mayo and the L.A. riots</title>
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<description><![CDATA[UCLA staff and faculty members are quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent selection.
 
&quot;Why would you want to change someone's sexual orientation? The only answer is that you view it with...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692784" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 23:23:10 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>10 Questions: Michael Ross on the curse of being oil-rich</title>
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<description><![CDATA[
 
Given his involvement with Greenpeace and other environmental groups, it&rsquo;s not surprising that Michael Ross gravitated as a graduate student toward research on natural resources. But in the early 1990s, it was unusual for a political...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692769" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 21:13:17 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Emeriti artists display their works at 34th annual arts and crafts show</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Jack Willis, emeritus professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, knows ships. The featured artist of the upcoming 2012 Sylvia Winstein UCLA Emeriti Arts and Crafts Exhibit was influenced by his Scottish childhood and has painted many...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692767" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 20:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>May 17 deadline for family verification is approaching</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The May 17 deadline is approaching to provide documents to verify your family members&rsquo; eligibility for UC-sponsored health benefits.  To ensure you meet the deadline, UC Human Resources recommends that you either fax your documents (866)...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692741" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 17:57:24 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>New dean appointed to lead Graduate School of Education and Information Studies</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Marcelo Su&aacute;rez-Orozco, the Courtney Sale Ross University Professor of Globalization and Education at New York University, has been appointed dean of the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, effective September...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692738" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 17:11:02 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>President Yudof appeals to staff, faculty for support for UC</title>
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<description><![CDATA[May 9, 2012
 
 
Dear Colleague:
 
Governor Brown is set to release his revised State Budget on Monday, May 14. At this critical time in California's budget process, the Governor and legislative leaders need to hear from UC supporters...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692683" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 22:38:29 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>A micro-park for a mini-workout</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A UCLA urban planning professor who devises strategies to turn characterless, unappealing urban streets and sidewalks into inviting, pedestrian-friendly environments is hoping to bring downtown L.A. its first active-recreation parklet.
 
A...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692681" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 21:31:44 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Can revamped ‘corner stores’ change the way a community eats?</title>
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Kulwant Songu and her husband, Balvinder, are the owners of YASH La Casa Market, which was renovated by a UCLA public health project to promote healthy eating in its East L.A. neighborhood.

A group of UCLA public health researchers and East...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692674" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 19:06:04 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>George Dutton Vietnam expert</title>
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<description><![CDATA[George Dutton, an associate professor of Southeast Asian studies, credits his lifelong interest in that region of the world to his parents — antiwar activists in the Vietnam War era. 
 

&quot;My earliest memories as a child were protesting the...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692597" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 22:11:46 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>IT managers thank their hard-working staff campuswide</title>
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IT managers (shown from left) Linwood Ceruti, Alice Ovanesian and Scott Harvey serve IT staff a pancake breakfast at Facilities Management&rsquo;s Campus Services Building.


Serving up a pancake breakfast is just one of many ways that...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692595" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 18:57:29 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>NYU scholar is appointed dean of education and information studies</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Marcelo Su&aacute;rez-Orozco, the Courtney Sale Ross University Professor of Globalization and Education at New York University, has been appointed dean of the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, effective Sept. 1.
 
His...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692580" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 16:14:41 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Gearing up for Bike to Campus Week</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Give-aways, free tune-ups, and free bus rides are part of Bike-to-Campus Week, May 15-17. Prep on May 9 with a class on bike commuting.<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692524" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 21:06:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Bosnia still needs fixing</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Wesley Clark, a senior fellow at the Burkle Center for International Relations, is a retired Army general and former supreme allied commander of NATO in Europe. Swanee Hunt is a former United States ambassador to Austria and the author of &quot;Worlds...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692517" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 18:56:59 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UCLA Game Art Festival, May 9-10</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Test your gaming skills in cutting-edge experimental video games, enjoy demos, music and machinima screenings, and meet local and international designers and artists at the 2012 Game Art Festival this Wednesday and Thursday. The eclectic offerings...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692513" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 18:26:31 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Help United Way find shelter for vets, chronically homeless</title>
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<description><![CDATA[
 
Jermaine Green&rsquo;s extensive military service in the Army spanned decades spent in precarious hotspots around the world &mdash; Iraq, Afghanistan and the region decimated by Hurricane Katrina. While he made it safely through all that,...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692503" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 16:01:56 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UC report identifies best practices for responding to campus protests</title>
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<description><![CDATA[University of California officials today (May 4) released a report that examines policies and practices related to UC responses to campus protests.
 
After incidents involving police and protesting students at the Berkeley and Davis campuses...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692403" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 19:12:58 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Systemwide shared service center to be set up at UC Riverside</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A systemwide initiative to reduce costs and gain administrative efficiencies through streamlined operations moved forward with an announcement today by the UC Office of the President that a universitywide shared service center will be set up at UC...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692328" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 18:08:35 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Psychologist’s studies make sense of bullying</title>
<link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/bullying-jaana-juvonen-233108.aspx?link_page_rss=233108</link>
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<description><![CDATA[
 
Jaana Juvonen is a sought-after authority on bullying.Everyone knows that school bullies torment their peers to compensate for low self-esteem, and that they are scorned as much as they are feared. 
 

But &quot;everyone&quot; got it wrong,...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692329" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 17:27:34 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>It’s time for UCLA spring football!</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Looking for something fun to do this weekend?
 

How about a day of food, live music, free giveaways and a fun zone for the kids, capped off by a football game in one of the most storied sports stadiums in the world?

 

You&rsquo;ll get...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692276" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 04:37:35 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Setting the record straight</title>
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<description><![CDATA[At an early age, this Bruin determined to tell the stories of great African Americans who are mostly left out of history books.<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692204" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 23:54:14 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Pauley Pavilion to be ready for fall 2012 opening</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Pauley Pavilion renovation has been under way for 27 months and, with just six months to go before its completion in mid-October, the project remains on time and on budget, said Ken Weiner, senior associate athletic director in UCLA&rsquo;s...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692203" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 23:34:37 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The next UCLA idol? Staffers put their talent on display</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Time is running out!
 

If you haven&rsquo;t yet cast your vote in Staff Assembly&rsquo;s first-ever &quot;UCLA Has Talent&quot; competition, you have until this Friday, May 4, to do so.

 

Ten of your talented peers recently performed...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692201" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 22:08:32 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Project gives residents breathing L.A.'s dirty air data on air pollution</title>
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<description><![CDATA[While walking along the Los Angeles River embankment in West Long Beach recently, Maria Reyes suddenly felt her throat tighten. She couldn't breathe. Her vision clouded, and she collapsed to the ground.
 

As an onlooker called 911, dozens of...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692197" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 20:51:43 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Film archive to celebrate 100 years of Universal Studios</title>
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<description><![CDATA[UCLA&rsquo;s Film and Television Archive is launching a two-month Universal Pictures movie marathon at the Billy Wilder Theater celebrating the studio&rsquo;s 100th anniversary. The marathon begins May 4 with the screening of &quot;Apollo 13&quot; (1995)...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692191" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 19:53:25 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Brainstorming with K-12 students</title>
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UCLA student Nic Novak talks about the human brain to students from Oscar De La Hoya High School during Brain Awareness Week when neuroscience majors lead tours of labs and workshops to visiting students. The weeklong outreach effort is...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692180" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 14:58:36 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Campuses team up to train future stem cell scientists</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Sarah Imam had her sights set on medical school until a unique program offered at Cal State University Northridge (CSUN) in partnership with the UCLA stem cell center steered her in a new direction.
 

A postdoctoral student at CSUN, Imam now...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692136" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 22:42:23 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>10 Questions: Verify eligibility to retain health insurance</title>
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With the May 17 deadline for submitting documents to verify your family members' eligibility for UC health insurance fast approaching, UC Human Resources answers 10 important questions. 

 
Why is UC verifying member eligibility for...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692124" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:49:05 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Bringing more women and minorities into UC health faculty</title>
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<description><![CDATA[They’d spent three days in professional-development workshops on topics like charting a career path, communicating effectively, negotiating and networking. But as the high-powered conference drew to a close, the 63 postgraduate student participants...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692059" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 19:02:16 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Verbatim — gangs, feeding-tube brides and big brother</title>
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<description><![CDATA[UCLA staff and faculty members are quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent selection.
  
&quot;I never showed up completely alone … You can't just show up and say, 'Hey, I'm here to study...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692057" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 23:36:49 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The top 10 things to know about biking at UCLA</title>
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<description><![CDATA[UCLA is a Bike Friendly University with lots of support services and resources for Bruins who bike to and around campus.<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692008" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 23:34:18 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UCLA Live now Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture today announces the creation of the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA (CAP UCLA), an evolution from UCLA Live. The public performance arm of the university, CAP UCLA launches with a new visual...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=691993" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:31:26 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Free tracking program keeps laptops out of thieves' hands</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:16:43 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Casino Night May 3</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Join your fellow Bruins for an evening of high-rolling fun at Staff Assembly’s Casino Night, Thursday, May 3, 5-8 p.m. in the Plaza Room at DeNeve Commons.
 
Roll up your sleeves for a poker tournament, buy raffle tickets for valuable prices,...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=691848" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 23:45:08 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>A lesson in adult education</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Marjorie Faulstich Orellana is a professor of education in the Urban Schooling Division of UCLA's Graduate School of Education &amp; Information Studies. This op-ed originally appeared on April 24 in the Huffington...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=691824" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:31:36 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>School shootings and crises of masculinity</title>
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Douglas Kellner is a media and cultural critic who holds the George F. Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Education at UCLA's Graduate School of Education &amp; Information Studies. He's the author of numerous books,...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=691822" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:21:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Comedian Bill Maher takes political science class by surprise</title>
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<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, a surprise guest lecturer walked into &quot;Introduction to American Politics&quot; unannounced and gave stunned students his own idiosyncratic take on the 2012 presidential campaign. &quot;Are you serious?&quot; exclaimed freshman political science major...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=691798" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:07:09 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Regulating domestic drones on a deadline</title>
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<description><![CDATA[John Villasenor is a professor of electrical engineering at UCLA’s Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, and a nonsenior fellow in Governance Studies and the Center for Technology Innovation at the Brookings Institution. This...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=691689" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:05:32 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Space scientist explores mystery of ice on a hot planet</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Scientists have long known that certain surface patches on Mercury, the planet first in line from the sun in our solar system, reflect radar signals just like ice does in the polar regions of Earth. To their delight, new data from the orbiting　NASA...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=691814" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:42:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>10 Questions: Darnell Hunt on L.A’s 1992 civil uprisings</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Professor of Sociology Darnell Hunt, director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, was a UCLA graduate student 20 years ago when the verdicts that exonerated four Los Angeles police officers in the Rodney King beating case...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=690976" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:03:06 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Celebrate a swinging Mother’s Day at the Fowler</title>
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<description><![CDATA[To celebrate Mother&rsquo;s Day this year the UCLA Fowler Museum will host &ldquo;Music for our Mothers: A Bluegrass Tribute&rdquo; on Sunday, May 13. From 2-4 p.m. visitors to the museum will be treated with bluegrass and oldtime music by the...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692842" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 22:00:32 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Rethinking the war on drugs</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mark Kleiman is professor of public policy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. Jonathan Caulkins is the Stever Professor of Operations Research and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. And Angela Hawken is associate professor of...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=690957" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:04:14 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Could self-driving cars help the environment?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[UCLA Prof Ethan Elkind considers how the cars of the future could reduce greenhouse gases by driving more efficiently, but also how they have the potential to do the opposite.<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=690955" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:09:21 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Less parking a win-win scenario for a downtown L.A. stadium</title>
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<description><![CDATA[UCLA Prof Donald Shoup argues that stadium developer AEG should provide ticket holders incentives to use public transit by building less parking and using the savings to subsidize transit.<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=690942" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:04:26 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>IT neutralizes email scam for fake 'UCLA Collaborative Network'</title>
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<description><![CDATA[UCLA became the latest university targeted Thursday by an email attack claiming to offer a university-specific social network, but the Information Technology Security Office has neutralized the attack.<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=690881" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:03:06 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Bike Nation to bring bike-sharing to Westwood</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The bike-share company Bike Nation recently announced plans to distribute 4,000 bikes across four communities in Los Angeles, including bringing hundreds of those bikes to Westwood and UCLA by mid-2013.<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=690874" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:51:11 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Acclaimed historian goes the distance from Cuba to the classroom</title>
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Teofilo Ruiz

At 3:30 p.m. one recent Tuesday, cavernous Moore Hall 100 was completely packed for the first day of Professor Teofilo Ruiz&rsquo;s History 2C course. Students buzzed about the strange scene that developed before them: Four lit...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=690860" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Top track and field athletes brighten patients' day</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Olympic gold medalist and UCLA alum Joanna Hayes (left) and Ginnie Crawford, U.S. National champion in 2006 and 2007, visit with Destiny, a pediatric patient at Mattel Children's Hospital Wednesday. The athletes were some of the track and field...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=690869" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:42:32 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Budding entrepreneurs help nonprofits plan for growth</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Four UCLA students used their smarts to develop a business-expansion plan that won $10,000 this week for an L.A. nonprofit that puts high-quality journalism programs in inner-city high schools. It’s part of a new entrepreneurship class at UCLA offering hands-on experience for a good cause.<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=690858" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:41:05 GMT</pubDate>
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