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<pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2013 05:30:11 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Campus to host symposium on future of educational assessment in U.S.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Experts on education assessment and policy from around the country will participate in a symposium on June 12 in De Neve Plaza to discuss the reports of the Gordon Commission on the Future of Assessment in Education.
The reports call for state and...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=706447" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 23:08:21 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Bike-powered 'Ecochella' concert rolls onto campus Friday</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Bicycle-powered generators will run the show Friday night when UCLA's first bike-powered concert takes the stage.<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=706417" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 22:33:52 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Bruins honor veterans with Memorial Wall</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Second-year student Patrick Yew joined fellow Bruins today in writing the names of military service members on a Memorial Wall at the Court of Sciences. The project, tied in with the upcoming Memorial Day holiday, was organized by UCLA’s...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=706372" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 21:56:49 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Next UC staff advisor-designate selected</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Donna Coyne of UC Santa Barbara has been selected as the 2013-2015 Staff Advisor-designate to the University of California regents, UC President Mark Yudof announced Tuesday. Coyne, associate director of admissions for application services at...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=706359" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 15:15:29 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>After Hours: A professor and her therapy dog</title>
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In this latest installment of &ldquo;After Hours&rdquo; &mdash; a series about faculty and staff who balance their work lives with fascinating hobbies or side jobs &mdash; meet UCLA history professor Margaret Jacob and her beloved dog, Blizzard....<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=706360" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 23:38:12 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Graduating M.B.A.s take top prize with website for bridesmaids</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Kelsey Doorey and Anna Baxter, two M.B.A. students at UCLA Anderson School of Management, see nothing wrong with always being a bridesmaid &mdash; never a bride. To make the experience more pleasurable and more affordable, they are...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=706331" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 22:19:24 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>'Dreamscapes' debuts at UCLA Anderson</title>
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<description><![CDATA[UCLA Anderson recently hosted a reception last week to celebrate the opening of &lsquo;Dreamscapes,&rsquo; the celebrated artwork of Jane Gottlieb that will be on view at the school for the next decade. The collection includes 25...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=706354" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 21:00:10 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>WOMP volunteers engage community</title>
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<description><![CDATA[UCLA volunteers planted 22 new trees on Sunday in Westwood Village as part of the fourth annual WOMP, the Westwood Organized Meaningful Projects service day.<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=706324" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 17:42:56 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Campus community to honor veterans on Memorial Wall</title>
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<description><![CDATA[With the three-day Memorial Day weekend coming up, veterans and their supporters on campus want everyone to take a moment to reflect on the many contributions made by service men and women, both those who have passed and those who are with...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=706325" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 17:41:46 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>How health care is learning from lawsuits</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Joanna Schwartz is an assistant professor at the UCLA School of Law, who has a forthcoming article in the New York University Law Review that shows how medical malpractice claims help play a role in improving patient safety. This op-ed was...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=706322" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 16:25:12 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UCLA School of Law kicks off monthlong commencement celebration</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Teachers, family members and friends of more than 300 jubilant J.D. graduates and approximately 96 master of law graduates attended commencement ceremonies Friday at Dickson Court North. The UCLA School of Law graduation was the first of more...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=706323" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 15:37:18 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Take me out to the courthouse</title>
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<description><![CDATA[UCLA professor Stuart Banner teaches property law as well as the law school&rsquo;s Supreme Court Clinic and has clerked for former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O&rsquo;Connor. Banner is also a lifelong baseball fan, who uses cases involving...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=706298" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 21:35:53 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UC student graduation rates hit a 20-year high</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Despite budgetary constraints brought on by years of declining state funding, the University of California continues to outpace many of its peer institutions on critical measures of student success.
UC &mdash; and UCLA in particular &mdash; ...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=706295" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 21:12:42 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>27th Annual Jazz Reggae Festival</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The 27th Annual Jazz Reggae Festival will be held on Memorial Day Weekend, May 26 and 27, and will feature artists such as Common, Santigold, Ziggy Marley, Jhene Aiko and others. Jazz Reggae is a two-day festival, the largest student-run music...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=706321" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 20:16:07 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Renaissance RoboCop</title>
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<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday last week, a middle-aged scholar lectured in a Royce Hall conference room on the role of Padua as the true cradle of the Italian Renaissance. Later that day, that same Ph.D. candidate stepped into a different world. He walked...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=706288" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 15:49:57 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Say 'No' to Gang of Eight's immigration reform bill</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Alvaro Huerta, a UCLA visiting scholar at the Chicano Studies Research Center, is the author of the forthcoming book, &quot;Reframing the Latino Immigration Debate: Towards a Humanistic Paradigm,&quot; by San Diego State University Press. This op-ed was...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=706236" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 18:42:05 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Staff News — May 17, 2013</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Hammer Museum appoints Connie Butler as chief curator,
Aram Moshayedi as curator 
Connie Butler has been named the new chief curator at the UCLA Hammer Museum. Since 2006 Butler has been The Robert Lehman Foundation Chief Curator of Drawings...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=706234" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 16:50:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UCLA students plan to rock Pauley</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It was 6 a.m. Wednesday in Pauley Pavilion, and dozens of undergrads were hoisting lights onto scaffolding, pounding floorboards and pushing massive speakers on dollies into place. Two days before Spring Sing, these members of the UCLA Student...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=706232" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 14:56:59 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UCLA, United Way team up to help veterans find jobs</title>
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&quot;I've saved people's lives. I'm a pretty smart guy,&quot; said Jorge Gonzalez, 24, who returned home to East L.A. after four years of military service in Iraq. &quot;I thought that counted for something.&quot;
 
Gonzalez was ready to find a job and begin a...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=706196" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 20:18:06 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>For a dying patient, a prescription of silence</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Dr. Susan Partovi is a family medicine physician and a volunteer instructor at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine and the medical director for Homeless Health Care Los Angeles. This op-ed was originally published in the Los Angeles Times on May...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=706191" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 19:23:07 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Wounded soldiers race to South Pole</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mark Wise, trained at the United States Air Force Academy as an Army infantry officer, was deployed to Afghanistan in 2009 as a platoon leader, where he suffered severe injuries when an explosive device detonated just inches away from him. He...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=706192" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 19:13:02 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>New Ashe optometry center will serve faculty, staff</title>
<link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/new-ashe-optometry-center-246121.aspx?link_page_rss=246121</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Faculty and staff whose to-do lists include items like &quot;schedule an eye exam&quot; or &quot;get new glasses&quot; can look forward to taking care of these tasks on campus when a new full-service optometry center opens summer 2014 at Ackerman Student Union....<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=706199" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 18:39:35 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Showcase for emeriti arts and crafts</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Sharon Belkin, a UCLA biological artist who provided graphics for medical research for 18 years before she retired, is one of 26 emeriti whose work will be showcased at the Sylvia Winstein UCLA Emeriti Arts and Crafts Exhibit on Tuesday, May 21,...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=706186" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 15:57:08 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>State of UC outlined in Yudof ‘white paper’</title>
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<description><![CDATA[University of California President Mark Yudof presented the Board of Regents Wednesday a report that charted the significant changes of the past six years and offered a candid assessment of how UC is performing today.
 
Yudof, who will step...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=706149" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 00:04:49 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Verbatim — tracking our thoughts, families online and hidden viruses</title>
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<description><![CDATA[UCLA faculty members are quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent selection.

&quot;We're always counting on science to tell us where we came from.&quot;

David Paige, professor in the UCLA Department of...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=706189" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 23:50:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Student researchers on front lines of marijuana issue</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In the midst of a raging national debate on how Americans use marijuana, a team of student researchers from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs is collecting data that could help separate marijuana fact from fiction.
Led by social welfare...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=706184" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 22:44:17 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Is there a nurse practitioner in the house?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Afflicted with pulmonary arterial hypertension and breathing difficulties, Carol Volckmann was unable to get much help from physicians near her home in the Cascade Mountains in Washington state. Desperate, she began consulting physicians elsewhere...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=706143" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 20:59:47 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Students give high marks to UC education, access to courses</title>
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<description><![CDATA[University of California students remain highly satisfied with their education overall, and with their access to courses needed to graduate, according to a survey of UC undergraduates released this week.
 
Despite dramatic reductions in state...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=706138" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 20:03:58 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UCLA's new Meteorite Museum rocks</title>
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Canyon Diablo, a 357-pound chunk of a meteor that slammed into Earth 50,000 years ago, sits center stage at UCLA's new Meteorite Museum.

Nearly 50,000 years ago, an asteroid fragment slammed into Earth approximately 40 miles east of what is...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=706145" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 18:14:09 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UCLA's first annual Diversity Symposium promotes dialogue</title>
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<description><![CDATA[On Monday, May 13, UCLA officially kicked off its first annual Diversity Symposium, a weeklong series of programs ending May 18&mdash; including keynote speakers, lectures, film screenings, workshops and exhibits &mdash;  to promote diversity...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=706110" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 22:19:41 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Feeling others' pain teaches us tenderness</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Marjorie Faulstrich Orellana is an associate professor of education in the division of urban school at UCLA's Graduate School of Education &amp; Information Studies. Her research interests involve sociocultural and ethnographic approaches to the...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=706109" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 23:46:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Jews in the other promised land: a story that UCLA helped the Autry tell</title>
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<description><![CDATA[What does French stoneware from the 19th century have in common with the camera used to make Hollywood&rsquo;s first feature movie and a miniature etching bearing the well-known slogan, &ldquo;War is unhealthy for children and other living...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=706108" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 23:03:51 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Staff News — May 13, 2013</title>
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Angela Horne appointed new head of Anderson School Library
Angela Horne has been appointed head of the Eugene and Maxine Rosenfeld Management Library at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. Horne came to UCLA from the Catherwood,...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=706089" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 19:45:39 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Serving justice on a global scale</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A virtual court is in session every day on the most pressing and complex issues of human rights and international criminal law. And citizens from around the world have a front-row seat to watch some of the best legal minds make their strongest case...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=706010" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 21:33:46 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Extreme commuter: UCLA staffer bikes 22 miles to campus from Valley</title>
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Not many people can say they cross a mountain range on their way to work &mdash; not on their own steam, anyway. But Annelie Rugg gets to campus from the West San Fernando Valley most days by bicycle.
 
Rugg, who is director and...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=706016" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 21:08:11 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Psychologist's approach to interviews changed face of child abuse investigations</title>
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Investigators botched their interviews of hundreds of children in the 1980s McMartin Preschool abuse case, critics charge.In 1983, a Manhattan Beach mother pressed police charges against McMartin Preschool teacher Ray Buckey, alleging he had...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=706012" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 20:45:04 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>After Hours (VIDEO): Global marathoner Alfreda Iglehart, Luskin faculty member</title>
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<description><![CDATA[On the faculty at UCLA since 1987, social welfare associate professor Alfreda Iglehart has circled the globe as a marathoner, completing runs in Beijing, Bangkok and Iceland. Rio de Janeiro is where she will be this year. She started...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=706004" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 17:59:06 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Hedrick Smith: No solution in sight to closing gap between rich, poor</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Even while America experiences a recovery of sorts from the recent recessionary period, Pulitzer Prize winner Hedrick Smith, author of a new book, &quot;Who Stole the American Dream?&quot;, says there is no cure in sight for the growing inequality...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=706005" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 17:39:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Hammer Museum wins grant to help revitalize Westwood Village</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The UCLA Hammer Museum has been awarded $100,000 to set up a pop-up village of local artisanal shops and galleries in the struggling Westwood Village area.
 
The money for Arts ReStore LA: Westwood comes from the Goldhirsh Foundation, which, as...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=705972" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 23:46:37 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Czech film series coming to UCLA</title>
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<description><![CDATA[&quot;In the Shadow&quot; was the Czech Republic’s 2012 entry into the Academy Awards’ Best Foreign Film category. The noir thriller about corruption during the Communist regime of the 1950s will be shown on June 3 at the UCLA Film &amp; Television...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=705962" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 17:34:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>A tribute in motion to Dr. Antronette Yancy</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Approximately 150 staff and faculty, including Chancellor Gene Block and his staff, took an Instant Recess break and exercised this afternoon (May 7) in the Center for Health Sciences plaza as a tribute to Dr. Antronette (Toni) Yancey, a public...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=705922" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 22:31:12 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Tea Party and Muslim Brotherhood: twins separated at birth</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Carlos Alberto Torres is a critical social theorist and Professor of Education at the Graduate School of Education &amp; Information Studies and Director of the Paulo Freire Institute at UCLA. This op-ed appeared originally on May 4 in...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=705885" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 21:47:29 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>A fitting tribute to an activist for fitness</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Bruins have an opportunity to be part of a nationwide tribute to Dr. Antronette (Toni) Yancey, who died April 23 after a yearlong battle with lung cancer. More than 50 organizations across the country will participate at 1 p.m. Tuesday in...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=705884" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 20:52:14 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Workshop engages faculty in online learning efforts</title>
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<description><![CDATA[As the campus ramps up online instruction, a day-long forum solicited input from faculty and offered best practices for teaching in the digital realm.<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=705882" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 16:58:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Nathanson Center a 'circle of care' for thousands of families</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A veteran recently back from a two-year deployment in Iraq, Michelle was struggling with PTSD and memory loss due to a combat-related traumatic brain injury while raising her three kids alone and in the midst of a custody battle with her abusive...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=705816" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 23:10:38 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Engineering school incubator helps launch new tech firms</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Building a bridge from the laboratory to the marketplace, the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science is launching technology firms and aggressively mining industry expertise to help shape research.Through the school of...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=705817" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 22:58:52 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Extroverts promise, but neurotics deliver as team players</title>
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Extroverts draw us in with their energy and enthusiasm, but they can disappoint when it comes to teamwork.Your department is interviewing candidates for a team to launch an ambitious new project. Among them is Darren, an energetic, confident...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=705810" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 19:19:06 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Blum Center hosts inaugural symposium</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The newly formed UCLA Blum Center on Poverty and Health in Latin America held its inaugural spring symposium Wednesday, drawing members of the campus community together to share ideas aimed at alleviating poverty and improving health in Latin...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=705779" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 23:50:32 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Of war and crisis: through the eyes of a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer</title>
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Acclaimed photographer David Hume Kennerly will discuss photography during times of crisis and upheaval Wednesday on May 1 at noon at the Fowler Museum. In 1972 Kennerly won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for his work documenting...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=705733" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:28:16 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The business of sports: It's not just a game</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In October of 1957, Brooklyn Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley announced that he was moving the storied franchise to Los Angeles. Historians have since debated O'Malley's motives &mdash; including his frustration over not being able to build a new...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=705729" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:50:23 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Open House</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Archaeology supporters and their family members have a lot to look forward to as UCLA&rsquo;s Cotsen Institute of Archaeology celebrates its 40th anniversary at its annual open house, a 16-year tradition for the...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=705701" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:43:36 GMT</pubDate>
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