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<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:14:40 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Anderson School staff retiree gives back to colleagues</title>
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In her 40-year career as an administrator at UCLA Anderson School of Management, Mary Petersen wore many hats &mdash; from running the switchboard to supervising the move to the school's current campus.
 
Retired since...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=688334" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:56:08 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UCLA partners with Z&#243;calo to share campus expertise citywide</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s been 17 years since National Football League teams battled it out on Los Angeles soil. But fans are hoping the dry spell may end soon as momentum builds over two proposals to give an NFL team a berth here.
 
Still, the question of an...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=688328" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:43:11 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>M.B.A. students to help L.A. firms export products, add jobs</title>
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<description><![CDATA[For years, UCLA Anderson students have helped foreign companies go international. A new grant will use their expertise to help more Southern California companies export internationally, creating new jobs at home.<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=688326" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Check off for cancer research on your state tax form</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Supporting cancer research is easy, especially if you're about to complete your California tax form.
 
Simply check box number 405 (California Breast Cancer Research Fund) and/or box number 413 (California Cancer Research Fund).
 
Both...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=688324" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:57:35 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Virginia bill could deny homes to children</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Gary Gates serves as the Williams Distinguished Scholar at the Charles R. Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy at the UCLA School of Law. Gates co-authored The Gay and Lesbian Atlas and is a recognized national expert on...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=688301" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:56:53 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Israeli hip-hop band presents free master class Feb. 28</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Hadag Nahash, an Israeli hip-hop band known for its political and social messages, will be on campus Tuesday, Feb. 28 to teach an interactive master class in the Schoenberg Music Building, Room 1343. From 1-2:30 p.m., band members will give informal...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=688247" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:21:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Japanese raguko master Utazo Katsura performs Feb. 24</title>
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Utazo Katsura, a professional rakugo performer from Japan, will perform English rakugo on Friday, Feb. 24, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. in Broad Art Center 2160E. Rakugo is a traditional Japanese form of comedic storytelling that features a solo...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=688248" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:07:43 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Bloomberg’s gun-control push is the wrong move for Obama</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Law Professor Adam Winkler is a specialist in American constitutional law whose work has been cited and quoted in landmark Supreme Court cases. His wide-ranging scholarship has addressed the right to bear arms, corporate political speech rights,...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=688238" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:39:25 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Helping Haitians tell their own stories of survival</title>
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Students from the Universite d'Etat d'Haiti interview a woman who lives in a tent camp in Port-au-Prince.

More than two years after a devastating 7.0 earthquake changed the lives of Haitians forever, a group of Haitian university students is...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=688307" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:59:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Sale of Hannah Carter Japanese Garden is in UCLA's best interests</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Gene Block is chancellor of UCLA. This op-ed was posted originally in the Daily Bruin online on Feb. 8.
 
 
UCLA&rsquo;s planned sale of the Hannah Carter Japanese Garden has generated an unusual volume of commentary from our neighbors in...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=688231" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:18:34 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>South African campuses cope with AIDS, racism, student anger</title>
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<description><![CDATA[As the vice chancellor of a university in South Africa, Jonathan Jansen knows college students in his country are up against some horrific odds. It&rsquo;s estimated that 19 percent of postsecondary school students are infected with HIV/AIDS....<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=688200" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:06:42 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Smooth start for smoking ban on health sciences campus</title>
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<description><![CDATA[When the UCLA Health System established last November two smoke-free zones that encompassed UCLA&rsquo;s entire Westwood and Santa Monica health-science complexes of hospitals, buildings, parking lots and grounds, many staff and administrators...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=688183" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:02:25 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>10 questions: Lee Ohanian on jobs and economic recovery</title>
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Lee Ohanian, professor of economics and director of the Ettinger Family Program in Macroeconomic Research, conducts research into massive financial crises like the Great Depression. He has been an economic adviser to state and national political...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=688186" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:38:59 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>New beach water rules: Enough to make you sick</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mark Gold, associate director of the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, writes that the Beach Act of 2000 gave the EPA a chance to vastly improve protection of the nation's swimmers and surfers from pathogen-caused illnesses — an opportunity that seems about to be wasted.<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=688168" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:13:44 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Obama should sign executive order banning job discrimination</title>
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M. V. Lee Badgett is the research director of the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law and Public Policy at UCLA. He is also the director of the Center for Public Policy and Administration at the University of...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=688163" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:23:06 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>New Year's greetings from a Chinese lion</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A Chinese lion personally delivered New Year's greetings Monday (Feb. 6) to surprised schoolchildren as they watched a free performance of Chinese cultural arts presented by elaborately costumed dancers and acrobats, kung fu swordfighters, folk...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=688075" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:34:14 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The Tao of John Wooden</title>
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A delegation of four Ugandan basketball coaches visited UCLA recently. Their goal? To experience the campus as their mentor, John Wooden, did. From left to right: Ayeet Timothy Odeke, Nicholas Twesigye, Immaculate &quot;Chocho&quot; Nalwadda and Caroline...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=688057" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:18:45 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Why Russia supports Syria's Assad</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Professor Daniel Treisman of the Department of Political Science focuses on the politics and political economy of Russia and on comparative political economy. His most recent book is &quot;The Return: Russia's Journey from Gorbachev to...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=688021" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:08:19 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>It's not easy eating green</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Across UCLA, the people in charge of feeding the campus are working hard to make eating a greener proposition.<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=688007" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:41:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Lopping off hair for Locks of Love</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Seven-year-old Caroline Ennis came to UCLA Thursday for her first-ever big haircut. The UCLA professor's daughter arrived with shining hair that hung to her waist, ready to donate almost a foot of it so that a sick child could have her flowing locks as a wig. It was all part of UCLA's Alumni Scholars Club's fifth annual Locks of Love fundraiser, where every year more than 200 people get a free haircut from Vidal Sassoon Academy students.<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=688006" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:15:44 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Satisfy a craving, help a worthy cause</title>
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Team HBV sells dim sum on campus to raise money for their Hepatitis B awareness events. Photo by Jessica Nazar.

The UCLA Volunteer Center has launched a brand new service to help you ditch those uninspiring fast food lunch options: Hunger...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=688049" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:07:51 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Free press under fire around the globe 10 years after reporter's death</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Just days before the 10th anniversary of the tragic murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, noted journalist and editor David Remnick spoke at UCLA about the need to protect freedom of expression around the globe and the role this...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=687930" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:37:47 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UCLA ♥ walking</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Jumpstart your New Year&rsquo;s resolution to get healthy by joining UCLA&rsquo;s sixth annual I &hearts; Walking event Feb. 13-16. Co-sponsored by UCLA Recreation, Transportation, the medical center and Staff Assembly, I...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=687797" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:46:52 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>10 questions: Alzheimer’s expert Dr. Gary Small</title>
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Scientists are working hard to unravel the mysteries of Alzheimer&rsquo;s, a disease in which waxy plaques and tangled threads of protein crisscross the brain, leading to devastating mental decline in its elderly victims. Dr. Gary Small, director...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=687796" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:34:21 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Building for better health: Public health prof hosts nationwide TV series</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The old adage says we are what we eat, but perhaps it should also say we are what we build.
 
One of America&rsquo;s leading voices calling for smarter urban planning and architecture to create healthy environments is making that case to the...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=687775" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:35:42 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Thank you for saving my life</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Last Friday, 17-year-old heart-transplant recipient Donovan Ho thanked the 11 blood and platelet donors whose 72 donations at UCLA helped keep him alive when his heart failed in 2010. The UCLA Blood and Platelet Center organized the reunion, which included five Bruins.<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=687766" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:57:12 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Tucker appointed to head administrative hub for ethnic studies center</title>
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Professor M. Belinda Tucker has been appointed to serve in the newly established position of vice provost of the Institute of American Cultures, the administrative hub for UCLA&rsquo;s four ethnic studies centers. In her new...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=687764" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:01:11 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Police investigating sexual assault on campus</title>
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<description><![CDATA[UCLA police are investigating an alleged sexual assault that occurred on campus early Friday morning, Jan. 27, at the top of Saxon steps, according to a crime alert issued by the police department.At approximately 2:20 a.m., police said, a male...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=687749" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:05:30 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>High school students compete for title of the 'brainiest'</title>
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<description><![CDATA[High school students who competed at UCLA Jan. 21 in the Los Angeles Brain Beeare were tested on their knowledge of the brain's anatomy by a member (left) of UCLA&rsquo;s Interaxon science-outreach student group. Contestants also took...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=687695" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:59:17 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Walk your wheels</title>
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<description><![CDATA[You may have noticed the bright "Walk Your Wheels" signs around Bruin Plaza or south of Parking Structure 8. The signs are UCLA Transportation's reminder to be-wheeled Bruins to hop off and walk in high-pedestrian areas.<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=687692" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:15:52 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Verbatim — Romney’s money, negative relationships and gambling in the new year</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.&ldquo;It doesn't bother me in theory, but it suggests something about his view of the tax code or his...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=687697" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:38:24 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Dickens' 200th birthday gives campus chance to reencounter author</title>
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 Before Scrooge, the Artful Dodger and Miss Havisham became imprinted on our collective memories with their delightful quirks and singular charm, the imagination that conceived of these and countless other unforgettable characters was...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=687688" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:34:26 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Helping kids cope —one drumbeat at a time</title>
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I am responsible!&quot;


 

Pum pum puh pum pum pum!

 

&quot;I do the right thing!&quot;

 

Puh pum puh pum pum! 
 

The lesson that teacher Tina Gilmore chanted to her fifth-grade class — accompanied by the beat of her...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=687685" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:09:57 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations, the Daniel Pearl Foundation and the Yitzhak Rabin Hillel Center for Jewish Life at UCLA are partnering to present the 2012 Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture featuring David Remnick, editor of...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=687694" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:07:22 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>New media driving Occupy movement, prof says</title>
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The use of mobile devices has helped the Occupy movement gain momentum and support, according to a UCLA information studies professor.

Lacking structured leadership, a single spokesperson and even a clear message, the Occupy movement has grown...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=687630" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:11:35 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UC cuts administrative costs, seeks new revenue</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The University of California has launched a variety of initiatives to pare down operational costs and take advantage of revenue opportunities, including those that involve new inventions.
 
Senior administrators outlined for the UC Board...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=687625" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:22:11 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Life and achievements of Winston Doby celebrated at Royce Hall</title>
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Winston C. Doby

Braving intermittent rain, hundreds of people &mdash; representing all facets of Winston Doby&rsquo;s 40-plus years in university service &mdash; came together on Jan. 23 to celebrate the life of a legendary champion of student...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=687572" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:06:05 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Verifying eligibility for health coverage to start in March</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Is your spouse or partner, child or grandchild enrolled in your UC-sponsored health insurance?
 
Beginning in March, all faculty, staff and retirees who have family members enrolled in UC-sponsored medical, dental and/or vision plans will be...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=687570" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:48:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Politics is a high-stakes game</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Lynn Vavreck, an associate professor of political science at UCLA, is the author of &quot;The Message Matters: The Economy and Presidential Campaigns.&quot; Her op-ed appeared originally on Jan. 22 in the New York Times.
 
&ldquo;All warfare is...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=687568" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:25:04 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Terasaki Center series sheds light on a changing Japan</title>
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<description><![CDATA[As an increasing global interest in Japanese culture, economy and politics shifts Japan’s place in the world, the Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies in the UCLA International Institute is hosting nearly a dozen events to engage the public in...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=687569" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:54:40 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UC, union reach deal on pension, health rates</title>
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<description><![CDATA[OAKLAND &mdash; The University of California announced today (Jan. 23) that it finalized an agreement with the University Professional and Technical Employees that sets health rates and pension contributions for about 8,700 employees systemwide. Of...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=687560" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:36:40 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Free &amp;quot;Twixt&amp;quot; screening Jan. 26</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Catch a free screening of &quot;Twixt,&quot; Francis Ford Coppola's horror film, followed by a Q&amp;A with actor Bruce Dern at the Fox Westwood Village Theater this Thursday, Jan. 26, 7:30 p.m. UCLA&rsquo;s Graduate Student Association hosts the event,...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=687551" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:13:18 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Patients' vision improves modestly after stem cell transplants</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Researchers at UCLA's Jules Stein Eye Institute and colleagues who successfully transplanted specialized retinal cells derived from human embryonic stem cells into the eyes of two legally blind patients report that the transplants appear safe and...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=687518" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:32:31 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Applications for 2012-13 TIE-INS Program now being accepted</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Applications for the 2012-13 TIE-INS Program are now being accepted through March 30, 2012.
 
Now in its fourth year, the program enables children of UCLA employees to attend four public schools close to campus: Nora Sterry Elementary...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=687502" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:28:50 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Kids want fame more than anything</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Yalda T. Uhls is a doctoral student in the Department of Psychology, a researcher with the Children&rsquo;s Digital Media Center@Los Angeles and co-author of a chapter entitled ''Internet and other Interactive Media'' (2011) for the...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=687281" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:22:47 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Regents to join all-UC rally at state Capitol in May</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The University of California Board of Regents will rally on the steps of the state Capitol in May alongside students, faculty, staff, alumni and other UC supporters, chair Sherry Lansing announced Wednesday (Jan. 18).
 
In remarks opening...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=687278" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:40:32 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Verbatim — ‘senior moments,’ getting out of gangs and chained to your desk</title>
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UCLA faculty members are quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent selection.

 
&quot;&rsquo;Senior moments&rsquo; that people often joke about are true.&quot;
 


&mdash; Dr. Gary Small, UCLA's...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=687279" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:34:04 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Photo exhibition depicts life after the Great East Japan Earthquake</title>
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<description><![CDATA[To mark the one-year anniversary of the 9.0 earthquake that devastated the coast of northeastern Japan March 11, 2011, the Fowler Museum will present &quot;Moving Forward: Life After the Great East Japan Earthquake&quot; to commemorate the victims...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=687263" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:14:46 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>An artistic partnership that transcended borders</title>
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Two Afghan women work together on one of Alighiero Boetti's Mappa. Randi Malkin Steinberger, who shot this photograph, was commissioned by the artist to visit the refugee camp in Pakistan where the women lived to document their lives because...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=687275" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:49:53 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Green construction surges at UCLA, cutting energy bills</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It’s a big year for green buildings at UCLA, and they’re helping the campus save a bundle. The campus has five LEED-certified buildings so far, but that figure's about to climb, with UCLA poised to gain nine more.<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=687257" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:44:07 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Archive screens film classics in historic downtown movie palace</title>
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Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell in &quot;His Girl Friday.&quot;Two generations ago, when films like Howard Hawks’ &quot;His Girl Friday&quot; (1940) opened, Angelenos flocked downtown by the thousands to watch Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell trade love-tainted...<img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=687266" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:41:27 GMT</pubDate>
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