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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:04:00 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 mortality...<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>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; an 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>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:00:22 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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<title>Wounded warriors take on new challenges</title>
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<description><![CDATA[“Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can,” reads a sign posted at the John Wooden Recreation Center, quoting UCLA’s legendary basketball coach. For some 70 injured soldiers who visited the center on Oct. 20, that can-do attitude...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=354329" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:07:57 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Parents' Weekend welcomes spirited Bruins</title>
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<description><![CDATA[

Chancellor Gene Block and his wife, Carol, greet Bruin parents.

&ldquo;Parents&rsquo; Weekend was a perfect excuse for us to get on campus and see our daughter, but it turned out to be a lot more than that,&rdquo; said Laurie Shepard, who,...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=354313" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:05:44 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Book chronicles black life in L.A. over 227 years</title>
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<description><![CDATA[When he arrived at UCLA in 2001, Darnell Hunt had some pressing questions. What research had been done on the history of the black community in Los Angeles? And how did the community evolve into what it is today?
 


Darnell Hunt, director of...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=354295" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:12:19 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>A temporary hiring tax credit?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Lee E. Ohanian is professor of economics, and director of the Ettinger Program in Macroeconomic Research at UCLA. He is the author of &quot;New Deal Policies and the Persistence of the Great Depression,&quot; with Harold Cole. This op-ed appeared originally in...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=354310" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:28:26 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Turning preschoolers into future scientists</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The process sounds familiar enough: You observe, ask questions, explore and investigate, measure and record your observations. Then you predict what you think the outcome will be and, finally, test your theory.
 
Good advice for a budding scientist...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=354245" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:41:04 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Message on the budget from Chancellor Gene Block</title>
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<description><![CDATA[To the Campus Community:
 
Across campus, faculty, staff and students are experiencing the consequences of an unprecedented reduction in state support to the University of California system. The effects include larger class sizes, reduced...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=354242" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:56:15 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Q&amp;amp;A with Steve Olsen on budget issues</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Like most public colleges and universities in California, UCLA is experiencing budget challenges of unprecedented proportions. Here, Steve Olsen, vice chancellor for budget, finance and capital programs, provides answers to some frequently asked questions.
 
 
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:53:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Honors Collegium fosters remarkable teaching moments</title>
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Lecturer Dario Nardi teaches his Honors Collegium class on artificial intelligence. Collegium classes like his attract students from all over campus; this one includes a neurology major, a linguistics and philosophy major, a math major, and a political...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=350597" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:34:33 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Review your choices before Open Enrollment</title>
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<description><![CDATA[With Open Enrollment beginning on Thursday, Oct. 29, this is the time to start looking over your health and welfare benefit choices for you and your family prior to deciding whether you want to make any changes for 2010.
 
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:22:02 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>10 questions: ocean protector Richard Ambrose</title>
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Richard Ambrose at Paradise Cove in Malibu. Photo by Steve Lee.Whether he's scuba diving in the Channel Islands, inspecting coastal Californian wetlands for signs of recovery or poking around in tide pools, Professor Richard Ambrose's research is...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=349748" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:20:24 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Campus representatives exchange views on budget crisis</title>
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<description><![CDATA[State politics, individual advocacy, academic excellence, diversity and the bottom-line dollars-and-cents of UC&rsquo;s budget crisis were among the wide-ranging topics discussed at &ldquo;Defending the Public University,&rdquo; a colloquium that attracted...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=342450" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:18:29 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Cambodian activist fights to save victims of sexual slavery</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Activist Somaly Mam, who escaped a life of sexual slavery in Cambodia and went on to rescue more than 6,000 girls from the same fate, appeared at the UCLA Law School Sept. 30 to share her experiences and her passion for her fight against human trafficking.
 
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:12:32 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Yudof explains his decision on faculty furloughs to Academic Senate</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In a two-hour discussion with members of the Assembly of the Academic Senate On Oct. 14, UC President Mark Yudof traded insights with faculty on a range of issues and topics, including faculty furloughs and a controversial proposal for differential...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=341048" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:48:36 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>There's no defense for blackface</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mark Sawyer is associate professor of African American studies and political science and director of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Politics. This op-ed appeared originally on Oct. 14 in CNN.com. Sawyer's  book, &quot;Racial Politics...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=339834" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:32:09 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Retirement benefits will be there, UC task force reassures employees</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Despite the economic wallop that has hurt many pension plans, including UC's, leaders of a UC task force that's looking into the future of post-employment benefits reassured staff and faculty who are active members of the University of California...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=339687" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:30:46 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Anatomy of a crisis</title>
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<description><![CDATA[With the welcome announcement that the student who was seriously injured on Oct. 8 in a stabbing attack in Young Hall is out of intensive care and in good condition at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, one can almost hear a collective sigh of relief...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=339777" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:13:33 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Have breakfast (or lunch) with the chancellor</title>
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On Friday, Nov. 6, 13 randomly selected staff members will have a chance to sit down, eat and talk with Chancellor Gene Block during this fall's &ldquo;Breakfast with the Chancellor.&rdquo;  Due to scheduling constraints, it will technically...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=336645" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:06:59 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>To post or not to post? A question for the Bee</title>
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Daniel J.B. Mitchell is professor emeritus at the Anderson School and School of Public Affairs at UCLA.
 
 
 
Recently, two Nobel prizes were awarded to faculty members at University of California campuses. So...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=336431" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:23:33 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Verbatim -- breast cancer, celebrity neurons and Italian designers</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;We need to figure out what makes certain women more susceptible to developing breast tenderness during hormone therapy.&quot; 
 
Dr....<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=336234" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:50:05 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Happy Birthday, Coach!</title>
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<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, Oct. 14, Coach John Wooden is turning 99 &mdash; and you can help him celebrate by wishing him a happy birthday.
 
Simply go to the &ldquo;Coach John Wooden, Happy Birthday&rdquo; website, and you can write your own personal message...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=334624" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:56:06 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Belmont Village offers housing option for retired staff, faculty</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Walk into the main lobby of the Belmont Village Senior Living facility in Westwood, and you might swear you were in the lobby of a fine hotel. A striking glass birdcage, complete with two live finches, is the first thing that catches your eye as you...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=334203" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:47:51 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Washington's mixed signals confuse Venezuelan diplomat</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mixed signals from Washington have left Bernardo &Aacute;lvarez Herrera, the ambassador from Venezuela, uncertain about where relations between Latin America and the United States are heading under the Obama administration.
 
But he thinks he'll...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=334137" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:27:59 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Laughter Yoga puts smiles on stressed-out faces</title>
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For stressed-out employees, sometimes laughter is the best medicine.

Something funny is going on in the basement of LuValle Commons &mdash; literally. A boom box is softly playing golden oldies, and seven staff and faculty members are padding...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=332542" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:12:13 GMT</pubDate>
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