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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:09:02 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>'Twilight' vamp franchise sucks the Quileute dry</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Angela  R. Riley is a visiting professor and  acting associate director of the American Indian Studies Center at UCLA who has informally advised the  Quileute  Tribe. This article originally appeared in The New York Times on Feb. 7, 2010....<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=543229" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:20:16 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>History, environment, politics make Haiti poor</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Why does Haiti remain the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere? Jared Diamond, UCLA professor of geography and physiology and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, spoke with &quot;Talk of the Nation&quot; on National Public Radio about the root causes...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=535426" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:54:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>FBI tips to safeguard research from prying eyes</title>
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<description><![CDATA[International spies are out there &mdash; and they want UCLA's research.
 
That was the message from the FBI at a presentation last week, along with a few tips for protecting the university's intellectual property. Kathryn Atchison, UCLA's vice...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=535413" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:22:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Staff, faculty opinions sought on future retirement benefits</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Want to share your views about UC pension and retiree health benefits? You can do so by taking a short, confidential, online survey.
 
Just go to the Future of UC Retirement Benefits website sometime from now until March 1 and select the...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=535412" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>New campuswide committee to guide cost-cutting efforts</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Dear Colleagues:
 
Governor Schwarzenegger&rsquo;s 2010-11 budget, released on January 8, acknowledges the importance of higher education to California and proposes to reinstate some of the UC funding that had been cut. The likelihood that this...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=532685" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:55:02 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Strangers no more</title>
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Leukemia survivor Alta Ray. All photos by Claudia Li.

It was the call every blood donor longs to receive, but almost never does: Come in and meet the patient who benefited from your donation.
 
Confidentiality laws usually prohibit such...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=532682" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:08:41 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Reaccreditation review team to hold open meetings</title>
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<description><![CDATA[To the UCLA Campus Community:
 
From Feb. 24-26, UCLA will host a site visit in connection with its reaccreditation review by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC). Like all universities, UCLA is periodically reviewed, and we...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=532635" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:48:29 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Crime log: Officers chase down, arrest shoplifter</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A man suspected of shoplifting clothes from the UCLA Store on Tuesday, Feb. 2, managed to fight off loss-prevention officers and escape, only to be caught after UCLA police officers chased him down.
 
The suspect, Anthony...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=532627" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 07:54:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Candidates sought for Gold Shield Faculty Prize</title>
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Last year's Gold Shield Faculty Prize winner, Chemistry Professor Robin Garrell (center), celebrated with Chancellor Gene Block (left) and her husband, Chemistry Professor Kendall Houk, at a Gold Shield ceremony in her honor.

Gold Shield, Alumnae...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=530069" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:24:47 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Public health schools tackle major issues despite funding cuts</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Whether preparing for the next flu pandemic or another mega-quake, two public health schools at UCLA and UC Berkeley have been at the forefront of efforts to promote healthy communities, prevent disease and create a safer world. Currently, they are...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=530067" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:47:04 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Management guru calls for companies to focus on people</title>
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<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Close your eyes,&rdquo; Stephen Covey told a standing-room audience who came to the Anderson School to hear the man Time Magazine called one of the 25 most influential Americans. &ldquo;Then,&rdquo; he instructed them, &ldquo;point your...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=530028" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:47:23 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>His year with Obama ... in rhyme</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Jack Rothman is professor emeritus at the School of Public Affairs. This originally appeared in the Huffington Post on Feb. 1.
 
 
 
Since eagerly casting my vote for Obama,I've lived through a year of political trauma.
 
Through...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=530013" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:55:03 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Young inventor turns philanthropist to help hospitalized kids</title>
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Cameron Cohen is shown here with his parents, Lisa and Jeffrey Cohen, who were amazed when their 11-year-old son programmed a new iPhone application and sold it to Apple Inc.

Bill Gates, the legend goes, started the empire that would one day...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=526996" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:35:38 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The lunch-truck menu board</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ASUCLA has invited gourmet taco trucks onto campus &mdash; for more on that, read the complete story here. But if all you want to know is who's coming to campus, here's the sign for you! Below is ASUCLA's menu for which two trucks will be in UCLA's...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=526995" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:37:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Helping IT staff keep pace with fast-moving technology</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The one thing that’s certain — as the saying goes — is change. Ramp up the pace of change to warp speed and you’re talking technology. UCLA’s information technology (IT) staff members know this well, responsible as they are for helping their...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=524305" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:06:20 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Missing former prof Philip Agre found</title>
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<description><![CDATA[UCLA police report that Philip Agre, a former associate professor of information sciences who was reported missing in 2009, was found safe in January.
 
The October 2009 UCPD crime alert was updated to read, &quot;Philip Agre was located by LA...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=524301" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:52:30 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Alito was right on facts, but wrong on form</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Adam Winkler is a professor in the School of Law. This column originally appeared in the Huffington Post on Thursday, Jan. 28.
 
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito made headlines last night when he nodded and mouthed &quot;It's not true&quot;...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=524287" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:43:22 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Staff, faculty can now apply to enroll children in schools near campus</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Are you interested in having your children attend a school near campus?
 
UCLA has a program that may make that possible, and it is now accepting applications. Called TIE-INS (Together In Education In Neighborhood Schools), the program enables...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=524279" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:03:20 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Proposal to use sick leave for baby bonding is up for comment</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A newly proposed policy that would allow employees who are parents to take paid leave for baby bonding is now available for employee comment.
 
Responding to employee interest, UC Human Resources has proposed allowing employees,...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=535415" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:29:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Court ruling gives all corporations rights that media companies have had all along</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Eugene Volokh is a professor of law at UCLA and founder and co-author of The Volokh Conspiracy blog. His op-ed appeared in the New York Times &quot;Room for Debate&quot; blog on Jan. 21, 2010. 
 
Corporate money has already long been in politics;...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=518309" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:31:17 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>New public transit options open up for campus</title>
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<description><![CDATA[There are now more public transit options to UCLA/Westwood with the start of new commuter bus service from as far away as the Antelope Valley and as near as the Metro Green Line station just south of LAX.
 
Last week, the Antelope Valley...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=518298" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:12:17 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UCLA Health System sends surgical team, supplies to Haiti</title>
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UCLA Operation Haiti: A team of 12 UCLA nurses and doctors will assist with medical relief efforts in Haiti. Above, four members of the team, from left to right: registered nurse Patti Taylor, Dr. Ami Ben-Artzi, registered nurse Kathleen...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=518292" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:09:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Meals on wheels a huge hit with lunch crowd</title>
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Bruins are lining up for food from trucks like the Thai-fusion Yum Yum Bowls truck above. UCLA appears to be one of the first universities to join the catering-truck craze by contracting with more than a dozen trucks.


New! Check out the truck...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=518279" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:58:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Feb. 4 performance art benefit for Haiti</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The African Activist Association (AAA) at UCLA will host &quot;A Spoken Word and Performance Art Benefit for Haiti&quot; on Thursday, Feb. 4 at the Neuroscience Research Building auditorium from 5:30-9:00 p.m.
 
The evening will feature Haitian art with...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=518295" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:53:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>College finds strength in numbers</title>
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Photo by Stephanie Diani.

In January 2008, the College of Letters and Science embarked upon an interim governance plan that gave its five deans an equal share of leadership &mdash; a &ldquo;collective leadership,&rdquo; as it were.
 
Modeled...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=518246" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:22:43 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>First step to mastering money: Know yourself</title>
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Do you shop for shoes instead of paying your bills? Your emotional relationship with money can hurt you, said psychologist Sheila Forman.

A still-wobbly national economy, state budget woes, UC furloughs and pay cuts &mdash; times are...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=518275" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:33:47 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Verbatim -- banking reform, cranky patients, high cholesterol and more</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=516065" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:52:39 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Software helps campus departments put brakes on travel costs</title>
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An Elluminate screen shows a list of 35 participants of a meeting as well as videos of three of them. There's a screen for live chat, audio controls, a white board and the ability to share graphics or text.
 
When Andre Nel, chief of the...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=516051" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:28:58 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Ten questions for stage set designer Myung Hee Cho</title>
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<description><![CDATA[American Theater magazine once described Myung Hee Cho&rsquo;s organic, elegant, but functional style of stage set design as &ldquo;Natural Minimalist.&rdquo; Cho, a new faculty member in the School of Theater, Film and Television since last fall,...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=516045" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:51:33 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Community weighs in on impact of recession on K-12 schools, students</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Summer school canceled. Severe cutbacks to classroom supplies. Massive teacher layoffs and swollen class sizes. All this on top of rising poverty and hunger among students and their families.
 


Legislators, parents, community organizers,...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=516043" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:24:15 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>In Memoriam: Mimi Perloff, co-founder of arts outreach program, UCLA benefactor</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Miriam &ldquo;Mimi&rdquo; Perloff, a longtime friend and benefactor of UCLA who was co-founder of UCLA Design for Sharing, died at age 95 Thursday, Jan. 21, surrounded by her family at her Westwood home. She was the wife of the late Harvey S....<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=516035" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:23:51 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Prize honors daughter's love of disability studies</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This year the Jessie Alpaugh Senior Prize in Disability Studies will be given for the first time to two senior students in the disability studies minor. The prize, two awards of $600 each, is named for Jessie Alpaugh, a young woman who was...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=515198" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:05:48 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Campus events celebrate Black History Month</title>
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A mural created in the late '60s or early '70s for the Bunche Center for African American Studies will be part of a Fowler Museum exhibition.Black History Month, a national celebration now in its eighth decade, will be recognized this February...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=515187" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:59:16 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Writers in exile, scholars keep Afghan literature alive</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In the tumult of the past three decades, Afghan writers have created a body of &quot;almost a homeless literature&quot; produced largely in exile, noted a visiting scholar at UCLA and organizer of the first daylong international conference of its kind on the...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=511873" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:22:35 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Heal your relationship with money Jan. 27</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In an era of economic meltdowns, state budget cuts and UC furloughs — do you worry about money? An upcoming workshop on the “Psychology of Money — Understanding your Personal Relationship with Money and How to Improve It” could help. The free...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=505797" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:40:25 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Wild, 'wearable art' creates fantasy of sights, sounds</title>
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This colorful Soundsuit can be seen at the Fowler Museum's exhibition, &quot;Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth.&quot; All photos by James Prinz and courtesy of the artist, Jack Shainman Gallery and the Fowler Museum at UCLA.

Once you step...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=505786" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:07:07 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Healthy year for UC med centers, but challenges loom</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and four other UC-run medical complexes had a strong year in 2008-09, increasing revenue and operating margins amid a challenging environment, but that success is fragile, health leaders told the regents during...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=505781" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:21:30 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Plan to transform UCLA for 21st century</title>
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Chancellor Gene Block presented UCLA's strategic plan to the UC Board of Regents on Wednesday, Jan. 20, laying out a blueprint that will take the university to its centennial in 2019 and beyond, defining the role of a public research...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=505622" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:47:17 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Fall 2010 freshman applicants top 57,000, transfers surge</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A record number of aspiring freshmen — 57,613 — have applied for Fall 2010 admission to UCLA, and measures of high academic quality, from GPAs to SAT scores, continue to climb.
 
Applicants included more underrepresented African American,...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=505642" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:10:39 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Dr. A. Eugene Washington to lead UCLA Health Sciences</title>
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Photo by Elisabeth Fall.Dr. A. Eugene Washington, an internationally renowned clinical investigator and health policy scholar whose wide-ranging research has been instrumental in shaping national health policy and practice guidelines, will join...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=505621" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:50:29 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>To cut costs, send inmates to college</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Chon A. Noriega is a professor in the Department of Film, Television and Digital Media at UCLA. This op-ed originally appeared in the Jan. 21, 2010, edition of the Sacramento Bee.
 
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's budget plan has drawn attention...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=505611" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:56:46 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Waxman to deliver political science/public affairs lecture</title>
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Congressman Henry A. Waxman, D-Calif., from the 30th congressional district will give the 24th annual Bollens-Ries-Hoffenberg lecture on Wednesday, Feb. 17, instead of Thursday, Jan. 28, as originally planned, because of urgent business in the...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=502797" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:11:22 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>COBRA subsidy is extended for former employees</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A government subsidy that was part of President Obama's economic stimulus package helped people who lost their jobs between Sept. 1, 2008, and Dec. 31, 2009, by covering 65 percent of their COBRA health insurance premiums for up to nine months. That...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=499884" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:29:49 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Local high school carries his name, benefits from his research</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A Jan. 14 ribbon-cutting ceremony, replete with emotional highs, political speeches and cheerleaders' back flips, officially opened a newly built school that now bears the names of UCLA Anderson Professor William Ouchi and his wife...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=499876" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:28:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Experts outline scope of nationwide project on climate change</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The country&rsquo;s leading researchers on climate change came to Westwood recently to give the public a chance to learn and ask questions about the current science on climate change, options facing the United States and the work of the Committee on...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=499872" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:05:40 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Lecture series weighs in on fat studies</title>
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<description><![CDATA[First you kick off your shoes and anything else that might weigh you down. Then, warily, you step on the bathroom scale. Finally, drawing a deep breath, you look down at the cold, hard truth.
 
That’s one form of fat study, but — thanks to a...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=499866" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Campus community scrambles to respond to crisis in Haiti</title>
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Doctors Without Borders are treating thousands of people in Port-Au-Prince who were injured in the aftermath of the Jan. 12 earthquake.As the catastrophic dimensions of the earthquake's aftermath in Haiti unfolds, deep empathy for the...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=489156" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:53:07 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Building the 'smart grid'</title>
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A $20 million grant will allow UCLA experts to demonstrate several ways of integrating renewable energy into the nation's coal-based power grid. Wireless sensors could help buildings respond automatically to power fluctuations.

If everyone in Los...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=486095" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:32:49 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Ridding the world of breast cancer</title>
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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 11:17:50 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Arguing over federal aid won't solve state's worsening fiscal crisis</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Daniel J.B. Mitchell is professor emeritus of the Anderson School of Management and the School of Public Affairs.
 
 
 
I was reminded of Rodney King&rsquo;s famous phrase, &ldquo;Can&rsquo;t we all just get along?&rdquo;, uttered...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=483293" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 08:57:30 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>D.C. center gives students taste of Capitol careers</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Matthew Clawson, UCLA's 2010 Marshall Scholar, had an edge when it came to winning a coveted free ride to graduate school at Oxford next year.
 
Like Scott Hugo, the winner of the Rhodes Scholarship the year before, Clawson is an alumnus of...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=480573" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:02:31 GMT</pubDate>
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