﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut</link><language>en-us</language><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:25:48 GMT</pubDate><title>People</title><description /><copyright>UCLA Today</copyright><generator>iPressroom.com</generator><item><title>10 questions: Mike Rose, expert on K-12 schools</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/10-questions-mike-rose-expert-149137.aspx?link_page_rss=149137</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/10-questions-mike-rose-expert-149137.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Mike Rose, an award-winning author and celebrated professor at the Graduate School of Education &amp; Information Studies, asks Americans to reflect on the purposes of public education in his new book, &quot;Why School: Reclaiming Education for All of... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=355386" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:25:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Wendy Soderburg</author><title>After Hours: The Vintner</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/after-hours-vintner-tom-lukas-112202.aspx?link_page_rss=112202</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/after-hours-vintner-tom-lukas-112202.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
 
Think about those times you&rsquo;ve treated yourself to a refreshing glass of wine after a long, hard day of work. How much more satisfying would it be to know that you made the wine yourself? In this latest installment of &ldquo;After... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=355084" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:54:26 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Laura Perry</author><title>Prof reveals Florence Nightingale's political side</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/prof-reveals-florence-nightingale-111975.aspx?link_page_rss=111975</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/prof-reveals-florence-nightingale-111975.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[

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... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=354982" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:41:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>UCLA experts take lead in regional climate plan</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-experts-take-lead-in-regional-112040.aspx?link_page_rss=112040</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-experts-take-lead-in-regional-112040.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[

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 16:56:08 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>John Ferrari</author><title>Staff honors</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-honors-111997.aspx?link_page_rss=111997</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-honors-111997.aspx</guid><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 23:05:11 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Wendy Soderburg</author><title>Faculty Research Lecturer’s advice: Whistle a healthy tune</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/faculty-research-lecturer-s-advice-111902.aspx?link_page_rss=111902</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/faculty-research-lecturer-s-advice-111902.aspx</guid><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>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:32 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Kathleen Micham</author><title>Scholar survives political imprisonment in Iran</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/scholar-survives-political-imprisonment-111873.aspx?link_page_rss=111873</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/scholar-survives-political-imprisonment-111873.aspx</guid><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 19:26:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Cynthia Lee</author><title>Staff In Memoriam: Jaime Rivas</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-in-memoriam-111766.aspx?link_page_rss=111766</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-in-memoriam-111766.aspx</guid><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 23:39:53 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>10 questions: ocean protector Richard Ambrose</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/10-questions-for-richard-ambrose-111439.aspx?link_page_rss=111439</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/10-questions-for-richard-ambrose-111439.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
 
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 17:20:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Cambodian activist fights to save victims of sexual slavery</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/cambodian-activist-fights-to-save-111414.aspx?link_page_rss=111414</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/cambodian-activist-fights-to-save-111414.aspx</guid><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.
 
Her... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=342168" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:12:32 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Wendy Soderburg</author><title>Happy Birthday, Coach!</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/happy-birthday-coach-111276.aspx?link_page_rss=111276</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/happy-birthday-coach-111276.aspx</guid><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 21:56:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>Prof revives lost art of printing press</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/prof-revives-lost-art-of-printing-press-111145.aspx?link_page_rss=111145</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/prof-revives-lost-art-of-printing-press-111145.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Professor Johanna Drucker inks her printing press as her grad-student assistant Nora Bloch looks on. Students in Drucker's new class will learn about the press and fonts this quarter. Photos by Alison Hewitt.

For Professor Johanna Drucker, a font... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=324623" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>UCLA's ambassador of international admissions</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ambassador-of-international-admissions-111146.aspx?link_page_rss=111146</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ambassador-of-international-admissions-111146.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[When Gloria Nathanson came to work in UCLA’s admissions office in 1949, the administration building — now Murphy Hall — where she worked had just been built.
 
Surrounded by acres of rolling hills and craggy arroyo, the campus was comprised of... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=321980" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:56:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Kevin Matthews</author><title>She travels Sahara to record history of caravan trade</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/she-travels-sahara-to-record-history-108672.aspx?link_page_rss=108672</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/she-travels-sahara-to-record-history-108672.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[While trucks carry most goods across the Sahara Desert these days, a shrinking number of caravanners on camels, &quot;the ships of the desert,&quot; still march their heavy loads between such Saharan cities as Tishit and Taoudenni, as their ancestors did for more... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=313185" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:48:08 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Kelsey Sharpe</author><title>Staff honors</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-honors-102670.aspx?link_page_rss=102670</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-honors-102670.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Rev. Karen Schnell, associate director of spiritual care for the UCLA Health System, assumed the position of director of the Spiritual Care Department on Sept. 14. As director, Schnell will administer and oversee the department, help teach programs for... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=303726" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:23:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Wendy Soderburg</author><title>The way to a student's heart</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/the-way-to-a-student-s-heart-102645.aspx?link_page_rss=102645</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/the-way-to-a-student-s-heart-102645.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
A word to the wise: Don’t ever talk business with Daryl Ansel on an empty stomach. A conversation with the new food and beverage director for Housing and Hospitality, Dining Services, will make you want to head straight for any one of UCLA’s dining... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=301963" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:22:26 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Cynthia Lee</author><title>Young to receive 2009 Clark Kerr Medal for his leadership in higher ed</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/young-to-receive-2009-clark-kerr-102570.aspx?link_page_rss=102570</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/young-to-receive-2009-clark-kerr-102570.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA Chancellor Emeritus Charles E. Young has been selected to receive the 2009 Clark Kerr Medal for Distinguished Leadership in Higher Education, the highest award given by the UC Berkeley Academic Senate, for his extraordinary contribution to the advancement... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=300250" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:59:58 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>Answering the call to volunteerism</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/answering-the-call-102441.aspx?link_page_rss=102441</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/answering-the-call-102441.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
 
David Bloome on Janss Steps flanked by four blue beams that announced UCLA's call to volunteerism. Photo by Reed Hutchinson.When nearly 5,000 Bruins fanned out to paint, clean, weed and sweat at schools and parklands throughout Los Angeles during... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=286435" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:29:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>Will it burn? Fire class has the answer</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/will-it-burn-fire-class-has-answer-102084.aspx?link_page_rss=102084</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/will-it-burn-fire-class-has-answer-102084.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[



Stereotypically, a college student will flip burgers to pay for college. Larry Loeher found another route. He became a firefighter. Loeher, the associate vice provost of the Office of Instructional Development, was just looking for a summer job... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=268027" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:11:29 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>Amputee triathlete's Cinderella story</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/amputee-triathlete-101903.aspx?link_page_rss=101903</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/amputee-triathlete-101903.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA student Scout Bassett spent her childhood scrubbing floors in a Chinese orphanage wearing a homemade prosthetic leg kept on with belts and masking tape. &quot;Then a miracle happened,&quot; she says. Now, she's a triathlete. Photos by Alison Hewitt.UCLA junior... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=251988" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:50:58 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>Campus welcomes new police chief</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/campus-welcomes-new-police-chief-101101.aspx?link_page_rss=101101</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/campus-welcomes-new-police-chief-101101.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The symmetry was perfect: James Herren joined the Torrance Police Department as a rookie in 1974 and worked all the way up the ranks to become chief two decades later. In 2006, with strong leaders ready to take the reins and retirement benefits as good... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=236972" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:37:07 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Margaretta Soehendro</author><title>10 questions for historian Nile Green</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/10-questions-for-historian-nile-101010.aspx?link_page_rss=101010</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/10-questions-for-historian-nile-101010.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[&quot;For me,&quot; said Nile Green, a historian of India, &quot;neither Islam nor any other religion exists in the abstract, &quot;but only in particular times and places, and then sometimes in curious forms. In his 2009 book, &quot;Islam and the Army in Colonial India: Sepoy... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=235465" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:34:38 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Bethany Powers</author><title>Healing music at Mattel</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/healing-music-at-mattel-100514.aspx?link_page_rss=100514</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/healing-music-at-mattel-100514.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Music therapist Vanya Green and a merry band of little musicians get a gig going at Mattel Children's Hospital. Photo by Michelle Tolentino.The beeping and buzzing of medical equipment can frighten the youngest
patients at Mattel Children's Hospital... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=227973" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:43:25 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Cynthia Lee</author><title>Former Buddhist nun helps stressed-out find inner peace</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/former-buddhist-nun-helps-stressed-99679.aspx?link_page_rss=99679</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/former-buddhist-nun-helps-stressed-99679.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Diana Winston spent more than a decade pursuing inner peace and serenity within the walls of Buddhist monasteries in Southeast Asia, immersed in periods of mindful meditation that lasted from just a few hours to a year. 

But that's not the journey she... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=212746" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:13:47 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Staff honors, week of Aug. 10</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-honors-week-of-aug-10-98565.aspx?link_page_rss=98565</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-honors-week-of-aug-10-98565.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Francesca Vega, assistant director of UCLA's Government and Community Relations office, has been selected as a &quot;Shero&quot; by state Senator Curren Price, D-Los Angeles. The third annual &quot;51 Sheroes&quot; event was begun by Price in 2007 to honor women who make... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=203411" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:50:26 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Emilia Barrosse</author><title>New head coach named to track and field team</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/new-head-coach-named-to-track-97775.aspx?link_page_rss=97775</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/new-head-coach-named-to-track-97775.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Mike Maynard has been named Head Coach for the UCLA men's track &amp; field team by Associate Athletic Director Glenn Toth, who announced his appointment on Aug. 4. Maynard will oversee all aspects of the men's program as well as coach both the men's... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=192248" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:26:20 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Wendy Soderburg</author><title>Athlete returns for the kids</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/athlete-returns-for-the-kids-97625.aspx?link_page_rss=97625</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/athlete-returns-for-the-kids-97625.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[“Hi! How are you doing?” 
 
The Lakers' Jordan Farmar comes back to campus to bring a little happiness to the lives of sick young people at Mattel Children's Hospital.

When professional basketball player Jordan Farmar dropped into the rooms of pediatric... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=190374" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:00:53 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>Toy stories</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/toy-stories-97020.aspx?link_page_rss=97020</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/toy-stories-97020.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Associate Professor Dan Froot, sitting, with puppeteer Dan Hurlin, in front of one of the toy theater stages. Photo by Rachel Benioff.Serving up hot meals in homeless shelter food lines and &quot;pulling up a curb&quot; to sit and chat with diners, Associate... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=177195" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:18:25 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Roxanne Moster</author><title>CEO of hospital system has mantra: Put patients first</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ceo-of-hospital-system-has-mantra-96848.aspx?link_page_rss=96848</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ceo-of-hospital-system-has-mantra-96848.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Photo by Ann Johansson.
For most hospital CEOs, leading a medical center equipped with the newest and most sophisticated medical technologies in the field would be the ultimate career pinnacle. But for UCLA Hospital System CEO Dr. David T. Feinberg,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=169614" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:38:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Dan Gordon</author><title>Healthy moms, newborns top his agenda</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/healthy-moms-newborns-top-his-96315.aspx?link_page_rss=96315</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/healthy-moms-newborns-top-his-96315.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Much has been said about the importance of prenatal care in reducing the risk of health problems for mothers and infants. But Dr. Michael C. Lu believes that’s framing the issue too narrowly. 

“Increasingly, we’re learning that by the time a woman... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=161401" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:42:25 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Cynthia Lee</author><title>Staff in Memoriam</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-in-memoriam-96264.aspx?link_page_rss=96264</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-in-memoriam-96264.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Mary Katherine Thomas, a longtime UCPD employee who served under four police chiefs and assistant chiefs at UCLA, died July 10 at the age of 93 in Simi Valley. She joined the campus police department in 1968 and served as administrative assistant to... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=159820" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:35:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Dan Gordon</author><title>Confronting the eye of the storm</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/confronting-the-eye-of-the-storm-96004.aspx?link_page_rss=96004</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/confronting-the-eye-of-the-storm-96004.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
The day Kristen Corbosiero started her postdoctoral training at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans.

While the tragedy that ensued heightened awareness about the dangers of hurricanes and the... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=156886" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:08:12 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Robin Heffler</author><title>Challenging conventional concepts of art</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/challenging-the-concepts-of-art-96002.aspx?link_page_rss=96002</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/challenging-the-concepts-of-art-96002.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[As an art historian, Miwon Kwon doesn’t focus on the paintings, sculptures and other mainstays of traditional art. Instead, she is immersed in the study of forms of modern art that challenge both our ideas of what art is and how it should be managed.

“I’m... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=188706" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:32:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>Staff Assembly leader goes for the goal</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/going-for-the-goal-95714.aspx?link_page_rss=95714</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/going-for-the-goal-95714.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[

Staff Assembly President Maureen Wadleigh. Photo by Reed Hutchinson.From the start, Maureen Wadleigh hit the ground running in her new role as president of UCLA Staff Assembly. 

There she was, officiating a town hall on the painful proposals for... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=156800" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:58:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Yudof selects development director as 2009-2011 staff advisor to regents</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/yudof-selects-development-director-95376.aspx?link_page_rss=95376</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/yudof-selects-development-director-95376.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UC President Mark G. Yudof announced today (July 7) the selection of Juliann Martinez, director of gift management at UC Berkeley, as the 2009-2011 staff advisor-designate to the UC Board of Regents. 

Her appointment follows a systemwide, months-long... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=156748" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:53:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Wendy Soderburg</author><title>UCLA’s head football coach visits U.S. troops</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-s-head-football-coach-visits-95233.aspx?link_page_rss=95233</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-s-head-football-coach-visits-95233.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[College football coaches are used to giving pep talks. It’s part of their job, and they do it well. 


 
UCLA’s Coach Rick Neuheisel (right) and Air Force Academy’s Coach Troy Calhoun talk while riding inside the cockpit of an Air Force C-17 Globemaster... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=156473" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:15:25 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Kevin Matthews</author><title>New answers to big questions in Chinese history</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/falkenhausen-95008.aspx?link_page_rss=95008</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/falkenhausen-95008.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[For 30 years Lothar von Falkenhausen has observed changes in China over two very different time scales — one of them measured in millennia. Professor of art history and archaeology at UCLA and acting director of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, he... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=155405" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:53:05 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Wendy Soderburg</author><title>Cotsen Institute names new assistant director</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/cotsen-institute-names-new-assistant-95002.aspx?link_page_rss=95002</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/cotsen-institute-names-new-assistant-95002.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
 
Shauna MecarteaShauna Mecartea, director of publications and communications for the UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, has been named acting assistant director of the institute until July 1, when she will assume the role of assistant director.... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=155392" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:35:52 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Wendy Soderburg</author><title>Senate vice chair wins Gold Shield Faculty Prize</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/senate-vice-chair-wins-gold-shield-94928.aspx?link_page_rss=94928</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/senate-vice-chair-wins-gold-shield-94928.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Faculty members who attended the Academic Senate’s Legislative Assembly meeting on June 11 weren’t surprised to see Robin Garrell, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, sitting at the front of the room next to the Senate’s current chair, Michael Goldstein.... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=155355" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:39:22 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Dan Gordon</author><title>Weight Watching</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/weight-watching-94786.aspx?link_page_rss=94786</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/weight-watching-94786.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
 
Illustration by Juliette Borda.
Summer is a time when we break away from routines and break out the bathing suits — a potentially lethal combination for the many among us who wage a constant war struggling to shed those excess pounds.
 
&quot;Two... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=155297" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:32:23 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>Staff Applause — Staff Assembly Scholarships</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-applause-staff-assembly-94662.aspx?link_page_rss=94662</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-applause-staff-assembly-94662.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Each year UCLA Staff Assembly offers scholarships for career enhancement and professional growth. This year’s recipients, who were announced at a June 17 awards reception at the Faculty Center, will receive up to $500 toward career development activities... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=155220" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:07:33 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>Staff excellence recognized with awards and scholarships</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-excellence-recognized-with-94635.aspx?link_page_rss=94635</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-excellence-recognized-with-94635.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA staff members were recognized for their outstanding contributions and encouraged in their career aspirations during a festive celebration June 17 at the Faculty Center. The awards were presented by UCLA Staff Assembly and the Administrative Management... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=155218" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:48:29 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Emilia Barrosse</author><title>Two make priceless gift to strangers, setting off two kidney transplant chains</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/two-make-priceless-gift-of-organ-94355.aspx?link_page_rss=94355</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/two-make-priceless-gift-of-organ-94355.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[ 
How much can the power of love accomplish? Just ask Harry Damon or Nicole Lanstrum. 
Damon is a Michigan firefighter who lost his 24-year-old son in a tragic snowmobile accident, and Lanstrum is an Air Force technical sergeant from Iowa who specializes... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=155089" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:20:46 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Staff Applause — New water polo coaches</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-applause-new-water-polo-94168.aspx?link_page_rss=94168</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-applause-new-water-polo-94168.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
 
Adam Wright (left) and Brandon Brooks.Adam Wright has been named head men’s water polo coach at UCLA, and Brandon Brooks has been named head women’s water polo coach. Wright and Brooks replace Adam Krikorian, who was named head coach of the U.S.... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=154624" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:57:10 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Ajay Singh</author><title>He carves career from studying lives of immigrant workers</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/he-carves-career-from-studying-93995.aspx?link_page_rss=93995</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/he-carves-career-from-studying-93995.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Whenever Abel Valenzuela Jr. gets his car washed, he puts on what he calls his “thinking cap” and observes how car washers, usually Latin American immigrants, go about their back-breaking work. He avoids talking to the workers, lest they get into trouble... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=154488" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:37:25 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Wendy Soderburg</author><title>A tribute to leadership in the name of Wooden</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/a-tribute-to-leadership-in-the-93733.aspx?link_page_rss=93733</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/a-tribute-to-leadership-in-the-93733.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
From the left, Kenneth Chenault, chairman and CEO of American Express, holds the leadership award he won. With him are Anderson Dean Judy Olian and John Wooden, for whom the award is named.As fans and friends of UCLA’s legendary basketball coach all... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=154037" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:04:29 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Staff Applause: 2009-10 Staff Assembly executive board members</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-applause-staff-assembly-93678.aspx?link_page_rss=93678</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-applause-staff-assembly-93678.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
 
Maureen Wadleigh
Staff Assembly's new executive board members have been announced following a campuswide election. For the term 2009-10, beginning July 1, Maureen Wadleigh, associate director of business operations for UCLA Recreation (previously... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=153937" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:48:17 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Cynthia Lee</author><title>Prof reveals artistic side of renowned architect</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/prof-reveals-artistic-side-of-93553.aspx?link_page_rss=93553</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/prof-reveals-artistic-side-of-93553.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Richard Neutra is widely recognized as one of modernism's most important architects. Now a new exhibition of his sketches and drawings from the Department of Special Collections at the Charles E. Young Research Library casts him in a different light... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=153809" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:32:14 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>Six stellar faculty win Distinguished Teaching Award</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/stellar-faculty-win-distinguished-93275.aspx?link_page_rss=93275</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/stellar-faculty-win-distinguished-93275.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Associate History Professor Janice Reiff's journey to becoming a professor had a traumatic beginning. As a freshman at Northwestern, she took the train from school to downtown Chicago, noticing the neighborhoods grow more depressed and segregated until,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=153214" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 18:12:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>Let the commencement begin</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/let-the-commencement-begin-93272.aspx?link_page_rss=93272</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/let-the-commencement-begin-93272.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[When thousands of white folding chairs start sprouting up in places like Wilson Plaza and Dickson Court, that’s a sign that things are getting intense for Chansoth Migletz — that about 10,000 students are about to graduate at 14 separate ceremonies and... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=153196" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 17:20:19 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Applause — May 27, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-may-27-2009-93247.aspx?link_page_rss=93247</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-may-27-2009-93247.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Dr. Dennis Slamon, director of clinical/translational research at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, is co-leader of a research team that has been awarded $16.5 million over three years to conduct research on groundbreaking new approaches... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=153128" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 19:49:44 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Grants &amp; Gifts — May 27, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/grants-gifts-may-27-2009-93245.aspx?link_page_rss=93245</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/grants-gifts-may-27-2009-93245.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Marie-Francoise Chesselet, professor of neurology and chair of the Department of Neurobiology, has been awarded a National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences five-year center grant. Her research focuses on the molecular mechanisms of neurodegenerative... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=153127" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 19:24:19 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>In Memoriam — Him Mark Lai</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/in-memoriam-him-mark-lai-93242.aspx?link_page_rss=93242</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/in-memoriam-him-mark-lai-93242.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Him Mark Lai, the internationally noted scholar, writer, and &quot;Dean of Chinese American History,&quot; died of bladder cancer in San Francisco on May 21.
 
Born on November 1, 1925 in San Francisco's Chinatown, Lai published ten books, more than 100... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=153125" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 19:16:45 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Transitions —May 27, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/transitions-may-27-2009-93241.aspx?link_page_rss=93241</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/transitions-may-27-2009-93241.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Patrick Soon-Shiong, founder and chairman of Abraxis BioScience and executive chairman and CEO of Abraxis Health, has been appointed executive director of the UCLA Wireless Health Institute. He has also accepted a position as a visiting professor of... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=153124" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 19:06:35 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Staff honors -- May 22, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-honors-may-22-2009-92906.aspx?link_page_rss=92906</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-honors-may-22-2009-92906.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Assistant Chancellor Antoinette G. Mongelli recently received two awards. The University Religious Conference at UCLA (URC) presented her with the Thomas St. Clair Evans Award May 19 at the Faculty Center. Named after the founding director of the... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=152673" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 19:27:14 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Kevin Matthews</author><title>Mexican writer decries plight of women writers in Latin America</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/women-writers-are-ignored-undervalued-92901.aspx?link_page_rss=92901</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/women-writers-are-ignored-undervalued-92901.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[It was the eve of the 77th birthday of Elena Poniatowska, the prolific Mexican woman of letters who writes fiction, journalism, essays and poetry with social and psychological awareness. So the audience of 250 attending her lecture May 18 at Rolfe Hall... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=152618" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 18:30:46 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Amy Zegart</author><title>Congress' poor oversight of intelligence is a longstanding problem</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/congress-has-long-been-deficient-92801.aspx?link_page_rss=92801</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/congress-has-long-been-deficient-92801.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
 
Photo by Stan PaulAmy Zegart is an associate professor of public policy at the School of Public Affairs, a Fellow at the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. This op-ed,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=152516" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 18:16:05 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Applause — May 19, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-may-19-2009-92762.aspx?link_page_rss=92762</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-may-19-2009-92762.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, the George and Sakaye Aratani Professor of the Japanese American Redress, Internment, and Community at UCLA, has published a new book. “Japanese American Resettlement Through the Lens&quot; (University Press of Colorado, 2009 sheds light... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=152432" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 23:02:16 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Grants and Gifts — May 19, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/grants-and-gifts-may-19-2009-92761.aspx?link_page_rss=92761</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/grants-and-gifts-may-19-2009-92761.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Aydogan Ozcan has received funding from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for his research in &quot;Design of Resonant Sub-wavelength Metallic Apertures to Enable Higher Resolution Sensor Arrays.&quot;... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=152429" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 22:51:41 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>In Memoriam — Edwin Shneidman</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/in-memoriam-edwin-shneidman-92760.aspx?link_page_rss=92760</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/in-memoriam-edwin-shneidman-92760.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Edwin S. Shneidman, professor emeritus of thanatology, the study of the phenomena of death, died May 15 at his home in West Los Angeles. He was 91. 

A professor with dual appointments in the departments of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences as well... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=152430" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 22:43:20 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Mary Daily</author><title>Protect and preserve: film classics live on</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/protect-and-preserve-film-classics-92757.aspx?link_page_rss=92757</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/protect-and-preserve-film-classics-92757.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Moving image media tell us so much about ourselves, says Robert Rosen, that letting films fade away is a &quot;cultural crime.&quot; 


 
One of Robert Rosen's favorite film &quot;saves&quot; is the 1955 movie &quot;Night of the Hunter,&quot; directed by Charles Laughton and starring... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=152423" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 22:08:56 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Cynthia Lee</author><title>A lifelong lesson in embracing diversity</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/a-lifelong-lesson-in-embracing-92705.aspx?link_page_rss=92705</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/a-lifelong-lesson-in-embracing-92705.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Don Nakanishi, a scholar of race and ethnic studies for the last 40 years, didn't have to go far from where he grew up to find his first primer on the subject of race. 

Growing up in multicultural East Los Angeles with Chicano boyhood friends and Jewish-American... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=152408" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 19:20:28 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Ajay Singh</author><title>Civil union: The intellectual and literal marriage of two professors</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/civil-union-the-intellectual-and-92485.aspx?link_page_rss=92485</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/civil-union-the-intellectual-and-92485.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Some 20 years ago, when Gary Orfield was a professor of political science and education at the University of Chicago, he traveled to Sacramento to testify before a legislative body. After the exercise was over, Orfield realized he was running late for... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=152171" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 19:12:10 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Transitions — May 12, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/transitions-may-12-2009-91515.aspx?link_page_rss=91515</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/transitions-may-12-2009-91515.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Virginia A. McFerran will become chief information officer for UCLA Health System and head of the Information Technology Department effective July 1. She will be responsible for guiding the development of all information systems and balancing related... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=151805" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 18:08:16 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Applause — May 12, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-may-12-2009-91448.aspx?link_page_rss=91448</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-may-12-2009-91448.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Edward Leamer, Chauncey J. Medberry Professor in Management at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and director of the UCLA Anderson Forecast, recently published his new book, &quot;Macroeconomic Patterns and Stories&quot; (Springer Verlag, 2009). Leamer has... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=151646" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 21:55:28 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Grants &amp; Gifts — May 12, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/grants-gifts-may-12-2009-91446.aspx?link_page_rss=91446</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/grants-gifts-may-12-2009-91446.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) funded the seedling proposal by Electrical Engineering Professor Bahram Jalali on &quot;Periodically Poled Silicon.&quot; DARPA describes as its mission to maintain the technological superiority of the... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=151645" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 21:44:02 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Bethany Powers</author><title>Film festival looks at Latino roles over 80 years of film-making</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/film-festival-captures-look-at-91443.aspx?link_page_rss=91443</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/film-festival-captures-look-at-91443.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Chon Noriega, an award-winning professor of cinema and media studies at UCLA, has a major role in a film festival that lets viewers look broadly at how Latino characters were portrayed over eight decades of film-making. 

Noriega, director... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=151644" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 20:35:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>UCLA's roadway recruiter coaxes commuters to carpool</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-s-roadway-recruiter-coaxes-91373.aspx?link_page_rss=91373</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-s-roadway-recruiter-coaxes-91373.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Jumy Rollins wants to save the planet, one commuter at a time. 

Her mission begins with being green. At home in Lomita, she and her husband cultivate an organic garden, use a composter and are fervent recyclers. 

“I’m really big on trying to help the... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=151631" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 15:18:46 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Cynthia Lee</author><title>Reading for recovery post-Katrina</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/recovering-from-katrina-through-91204.aspx?link_page_rss=91204</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/recovering-from-katrina-through-91204.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[It was a homegrown effort run by UCLA students and a faculty member with a yearning to do something nice for the beleaguered children of New Orleans, home to some of the nation's neediest schools. And it came together one dollar at a time. 

On Sunday,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=151464" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 16:16:19 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>UC Board of Regents names two new chancellors</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/uc-board-of-regents-names-two-91165.aspx?link_page_rss=91165</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/uc-board-of-regents-names-two-91165.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The UC regents appointed May 7 a UCLA engineering alumna as chancellor of UC Davis and a biotech industry executive to head UC San Francisco. 

Linda Katehi, provost and vice chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a renowned... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=151291" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 21:39:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Matthew Chin and Judy Lin</author><title>10 questions for Bruin Astronaut Megan McArthur</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/10-questions-for-bruin-astronaut-90983.aspx?link_page_rss=90983</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/10-questions-for-bruin-astronaut-90983.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Astronaut Megan McArthur donned a UCLA sweatshirt during her mission to the Hubble Telescope.When Space Shuttle Atlantis mission STS-125 lifted off May 11 for NASA’s final mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope, a proud Bruin was among... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=150882" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 15:44:59 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>Class explores the good and evil of Google</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/class-explores-the-good-and-evil-90514.aspx?link_page_rss=90514</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/class-explores-the-good-and-evil-90514.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[It's one thing to hear Professor Todd Presner's shrewd insights into how Google is changing the world. It's another to sit in on his undergrad class, &quot;The Googlization of Everything,&quot; and hear the surprising attitudes of his students, most of whom were... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=149262" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 01:01:19 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Grants &amp; Gifts — April 28, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/grants-gifts-april-28-2009-90407.aspx?link_page_rss=90407</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/grants-gifts-april-28-2009-90407.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Each year, the Center for the Study of Women (CSW) awards grants to faculty for research projects about women, sexuality and gender. In the past, recipients have given public lectures, workshops or organized conferences. This year, CSW has organized... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=147818" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 01:31:40 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Applause — April 28, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-april-28-2009-90405.aspx?link_page_rss=90405</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-april-28-2009-90405.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The UCLA Medal, the university’s highest honor, has been awarded to Dr. Jonathan Fielding, director of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, a county health officer and a professor at the UCLA School of Public Health, for his work as an... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=147801" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:40:15 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>In Memoriam: Bill Barnes</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/in-memoriam-bill-barnes-90399.aspx?link_page_rss=90399</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/in-memoriam-bill-barnes-90399.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Bill Barnes, who served as UCLA head football coach from 1958 through 1964, died April 23 at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center of complications from pneumonia. He was 91 and had spent the last two months in the hospital.

In his seven years as head coach... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=147747" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:03:12 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Jacqueline Tasch</author><title>He harnesses the sun to serve Cairo's slum dwellers</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/harnessing-the-sun-to-serve-cairo-89675.aspx?link_page_rss=89675</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/harnessing-the-sun-to-serve-cairo-89675.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[When T. H Culhane first set eyes on the slums of Darb Al Ahmar in Cairo, he saw deep and pervasive poverty, the lack of potable water and the dearth of other urban resources — and asked why. There were similar communities around the world that had improved... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=145844" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:29:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Staff In Memoriam: Carl Patrick</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-in-memoriam-carl-patrick-89366.aspx?link_page_rss=89366</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-in-memoriam-carl-patrick-89366.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Carl Patrick, office manager for the Department of World Arts and Cultures in the School of the Arts and Architecture, died March 17 in Los Angeles following complications due to a stroke. He was 59. 

Patrick was born in Roanoke, Va., and received his... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=144484" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:18:38 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Applause — April 21, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-april-21-2009-89365.aspx?link_page_rss=89365</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-april-21-2009-89365.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Ioanna Kakoulli, assistant professor of materials science and engineering and conservation, recently published a volume on Greek painting techniques called “Greek Painting Techniques and Materials from the Fourth to the First Century B.C.” (Archetype... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=144480" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:50:19 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Staff Applause -- April 14, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-applause-april-14-2009-88892.aspx?link_page_rss=88892</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-applause-april-14-2009-88892.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Elizabeth C. Moeller, assistant dean of career services at the School of Law, was elected to serve as a 2009-2011 director on the board of NALP — the Association for Legal Career Professionals. Founded in 1971 as the National Association for Law Placement,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=141692" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:10:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>Ten questions for Rupa Sridharan</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ten-questions-for-rupa-sridharan-88672.aspx?link_page_rss=88672</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ten-questions-for-rupa-sridharan-88672.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Rupa Sridharan is one of five recipients of the 2009 Chancellor’s Award for Postdoctoral Research,  given in recognition of the important contributions that postdoctoral scholars make to UCLA. Of the 1,089 registered UCLA postdoctoral scholars,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=141012" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:39:59 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>Law profs blog for the environment</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/law-profs-blog-for-the-environment-88084.aspx?link_page_rss=88084</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/law-profs-blog-for-the-environment-88084.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[When the directors of UCLA and UC Berkeley's environmental law centers recently found themselves looking for an intelligent, neutral round-up of the day's big eco news, they discovered it didn’t exist. So they created one.
 
Legal Planet, a collaborative... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=139151" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:59:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Melissa Lambarena</author><title>Grants and Gifts — April 7, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/grants-and-gifts-april-7-2009-87209.aspx?link_page_rss=87209</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/grants-and-gifts-april-7-2009-87209.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Alexander Bystritsky, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences in the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, has been selected as one of 16 scientists by NARSAD (previously known as the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=138692" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:43:10 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Melissa Lambarena</author><title>Transitions — April 7, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/transitions-april-7-2009-87207.aspx?link_page_rss=87207</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/transitions-april-7-2009-87207.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[ 
The UC Regents have approved the appointment of Professor Nicholas Entrikin as vice provost for international studies. Professor Entrikin has served as the acting vice provost since 2007. His appointment as vice provost enables him to continue... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=138693" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:36:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Melissa Lambarena</author><title>Applause — April 7, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-april-7-2009-87203.aspx?link_page_rss=87203</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-april-7-2009-87203.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Elma L. Gonzalez, professor emeritus of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, has been named a 2009 Distinguished Alumni by Texas Woman’s University and the TWU Former Students Association. Gonzalez has been actively involved in increasing ... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=138691" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:13:20 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Tony Chan to head university in Hong Kong</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/tony-chan-to-head-university-in-87023.aspx?link_page_rss=87023</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/tony-chan-to-head-university-in-87023.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Tony Chan, assistant director of the National Science Foundation's largest directorate and a former dean in the College of Letters and Science at UCLA, has been appointed the next president of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=136951" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:10:58 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Wendy Soderburg</author><title>Jamie McCourt's course is a home run</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/jamie-mccourt-s-course-is-a-home-87016.aspx?link_page_rss=87016</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/jamie-mccourt-s-course-is-a-home-87016.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[If you’re a fan of the Los Angeles Dodgers, you undoubtedly know who Jamie McCourt is. Newly named as CEO of the Dodger organization, McCourt has co-owned the team with her husband, Frank, since 2004. She is the highest-ranking woman in Major League... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=136935" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:15:59 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Ajay Singh</author><title>Father, son search for paradise -- via Iraq, Israel, Los Angeles</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/one-man-s-search-for-paradise-86790.aspx?link_page_rss=86790</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/one-man-s-search-for-paradise-86790.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Yona Sabar was 12 years old when he left his home in the isolated mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan and made his way to Israel. The year was 1951, the Middle East was in postwar turmoil, and Sabar was armed with just three childhood possessions: a school... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=135760" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:43:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Maya Parmer</author><title>Two days of the Duke</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/two-days-of-the-duke-86756.aspx?link_page_rss=86756</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/two-days-of-the-duke-86756.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[When UCLA students were entranced by Duke Ellington's provocative tunes at a Culver City club in 1937, they asked the budding musical great to play a free concert in Royce Hall. 
 

 
Duke Ellington. - Photo courtesy of Kenny Burrell.
&quot;I've... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=135326" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:00:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>Green business? Not without self-interest.</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/green-business-not-without-self-86749.aspx?link_page_rss=86749</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/green-business-not-without-self-86749.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Professor Magali Delmas knows you probably don't care about electric utility regulation. But does organic wine or fair-trade coffee tickle your taste buds?
 

 
Professor Magali Delmas.That could help Delmas, a management professor with the... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=135230" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:14:31 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>Her career path is upward bound</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/her-career-path-is-upward-bound-86563.aspx?link_page_rss=86563</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/her-career-path-is-upward-bound-86563.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Suzanne Jett wants her coworkers to know that they can learn new skills, take on new responsibilities, aspire to greater things on the job — and find all the help they need right here on campus. 

Jett, who works at the front desk of the UCLA Guest House... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=133511" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:11:01 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Wendy Soderburg</author><title>Clearing a path to cancer cures</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/clearing-a-path-to-cancer-cures-86542.aspx?link_page_rss=86542</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/clearing-a-path-to-cancer-cures-86542.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Since it was first approved in 1998, the breast cancer drug Herceptin — developed by Dennis J. Slamon and his colleagues at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center — has saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of women.
 

 
Dennis Slamon.... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=133228" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:12:41 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Phil Hampton and Judy Lin</author><title>Teaching eco ethics in the Ecuadorean rainforest</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/teaching-eco-ethics-jordan-karubian-85624.aspx?link_page_rss=85624</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/teaching-eco-ethics-jordan-karubian-85624.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[On a muddy road in an Ecuadorean rainforest in 2002, Jordan Karubian happened upon an anteater hacked by a machete and near death — an apparent victim of wanton cruelty. Local boys were puzzled by Karubian's distress. So what, they thought, it's just... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=131680" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:01:16 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Wendy Soderburg</author><title>A team of her own</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/a-team-of-her-own-85059.aspx?link_page_rss=85059</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/a-team-of-her-own-85059.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Despite losing its final conference game against Oregon State University last week — a tight match-up that ended in a 61-58 score — the UCLA women's basketball team is entering the Pac-10 tournament on Friday with a very respectable 18-11 record and... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=129217" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:20:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Applause — March 10, 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-march-10-2009-84937.aspx?link_page_rss=84937</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/applause-march-10-2009-84937.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[“Live from Los Angeles,” a CD and DVD by James Roberson, adjunct assistant professor of ethnomusicology, was nominated for five Stellar Gospel Music Award awards and won with singer Beverly Crawford as Traditional Female Vocalist of the Year. The... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=128886" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:15:28 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Kathleen Micham</author><title>Mark O'Connor: fiddler on the campus</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/renowned-violinist-and-fiddler-84703.aspx?link_page_rss=84703</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/renowned-violinist-and-fiddler-84703.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Grammy Award-winning violinist and fiddler Mark O'Connor took time off from a busy schedule of touring and recording to spend March 1 to March 6 at UCLA, where he served an enthusiastic stint as inaugural artist-in-residence at the UCLA Herb... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=128220" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:37:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin &amp; Meg Sullivan</author><title>UCLA's natural beauty is in his hands</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-s-natural-beauty-is-in-his-84452.aspx?link_page_rss=84452</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-s-natural-beauty-is-in-his-84452.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[How would you like to keep clean and green a 419-acre backyard — complete with lush gardens — that’s vast, stunning and constantly in need of watering, weeding, mulching, fertilizing and pruning? 

 
It takes Rich Ohara a month to slowly walk the... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=127436" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:47:56 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Ajay Singh</author><title>Unraveling the legal threads entangling race in America</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/unraveling-the-legal-threads-entangling-84446.aspx?link_page_rss=84446</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/unraveling-the-legal-threads-entangling-84446.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[In law schools and ethnic studies centers across the nation, Renee Rodgers is a familiar name. She’s the one-time African American employee of American Airlines whose hair had a classic all-American look — except it fell to her shoulders in tight braids... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=127424" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:00:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Bethany Powers</author><title>A composer of all trades</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/a-composer-of-all-trades-84288.aspx?link_page_rss=84288</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/a-composer-of-all-trades-84288.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Video games like Halo 3 and a Carnegie Hall opera in New York wouldn't normally go together. But it's all in a day's work for Emmy-winning UCLA Professor Laura Karpman, a composer whose comfort and skill range across strikingly different genres.
 

... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=127040" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:10:45 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Wendy Soderburg</author><title>UCLA's famed former quarterback completes final 'pass'</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-s-famed-former-quarterback-84276.aspx?link_page_rss=84276</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-s-famed-former-quarterback-84276.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[When Troy Aikman completed his last season as quarterback of the UCLA football team in fall of 1988, he left without completing his degree. Not that he had much of a choice, mind you — as the No. 1 draft pick in 1989, he was snatched up and signed by... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=126833" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:50:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Ajay Singh</author><title>The crisis in Latino education: 10 questions for Patricia Gándara</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/the-crisis-in-latino-education-83948.aspx?link_page_rss=83948</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/the-crisis-in-latino-education-83948.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Stuck in underfunded schools, with virtually no guidance or social support at home, Latinos face a bleak future. Their predicament bodes ill for the nation unless urgent reform is undertaken, maintains Patricia Gándara in a timely and sobering book,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=125734" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:39:56 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>