<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ><channel><atom:link href="http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/people-rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut</link><language>en-us</language><pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:38:59 GMT</pubDate><title>People</title><description /><copyright>UCLA Today</copyright><generator>iPressroom.com</generator><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>10 questions: Lee Ohanian on jobs and economic recovery</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/10-questions-lee-ohanian-on-unemployment-228601.aspx?link_page_rss=228601</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/10-questions-lee-ohanian-on-unemployment-228601.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
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></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>10 questions: Alzheimer’s expert Dr. Gary Small</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/10-questions-alzheimer-s-expert-228191.aspx?link_page_rss=228191</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/10-questions-alzheimer-s-expert-228191.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[


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></item><item><author>Cynthia Lee</author><title>Tucker appointed to head administrative hub for ethnic studies center</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/tucker-appointed-to-head-administrative-228077.aspx?link_page_rss=228077</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/tucker-appointed-to-head-administrative-228077.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
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></item><item><author>Cynthia Lee and Wendy Soderburg</author><title>Life and achievements of Winston Doby celebrated at Royce Hall</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/life-and-achievements-of-winston-225750.aspx?link_page_rss=225750</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/life-and-achievements-of-winston-225750.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
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></item><item><author>Cynthia Lee</author><title>An artistic partnership that transcended borders</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/unequal-partners-the-artist-and-222423.aspx?link_page_rss=222423</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/unequal-partners-the-artist-and-222423.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[

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></item><item><author>UCLA Athletics</author><title>Kareem Abdul-Jabbar named U.S. State Department Cultural Ambassador</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/kareem-abdul-jabbar-named-u-s-222409.aspx?link_page_rss=222409</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/kareem-abdul-jabbar-named-u-s-222409.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tries Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's Lakers jersey on for size.

UCLA three-time All-America men's basketball star and NBA all-time leading scorer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has been appointed to the role of global Cultural... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=687255" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:36:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Campus to celebrate life of Winston Doby</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/campus-memorial-service-to-be-221804.aspx?link_page_rss=221804</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/campus-memorial-service-to-be-221804.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[A campus memorial service celebrating the life of Winston Doby, UCLA vice chancellor emeritus for student affairs, will be held Monday, Jan. 23, at Royce Hall. He died Nov. 10.
 

A visionary leader whose efforts to broaden opportunities... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=687016" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:03:52 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>Stressed-out international students get help</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/stressed-out-international-students-221794.aspx?link_page_rss=221794</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/stressed-out-international-students-221794.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[For the thousands of international students who land in Westwood each year to attend UCLA, things start out looking mighty fine — their peers are accomplished, their professors brilliant, the campus beautiful and the sun always shining.... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=687007" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:37:19 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Staff News — In memoriam, career adviser, mystery in testing world</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-news-career-development-221608.aspx?link_page_rss=221608</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-news-career-development-221608.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
In Memoriam: Network engineer Christopher Thomas
 
Christopher S. Thomas, a network engineer in the Office of Information Technology and Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE), died Dec. 29 at 67 in Los Angeles from colon... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=686715" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:27:31 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Robin Heffler</author><title>Survivor of Cultural Revolution chronicles immigrants' lives</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/survivor-of-cultural-revolution-221409.aspx?link_page_rss=221409</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/survivor-of-cultural-revolution-221409.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Political and social upheaval in her native country has shaped the life and career of Min Zhou, an experience she shares with the many of the immigrants she, as a sociologist, studies.
 
As a child growing up during China&rsquo;s turbulent... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=686613" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:41:45 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Paul Feinberg</author><title>Finland knights Anderson prof for his role in helping tech firms</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/finland-knights-anderson-prof-221083.aspx?link_page_rss=221083</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/finland-knights-anderson-prof-221083.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Just call him &quot;Sir.&quot; 
 
The government of Finland recently bestowed upon Bob Foster, an adjunct professor at the Anderson School of Management, the honor of Knight, First Class, of the Order of the White Rose of Finland.... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=686127" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:37:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>10 Questions: Diana Winston on having a happy, greed-free holiday</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/10-questions-for-diana-winston-221033.aspx?link_page_rss=221033</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/10-questions-for-diana-winston-221033.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The kids want Let's Rock! Elmo, Fijit  Friends and a dozen other toys they’ve seen on TV. The grownups are ogling iPads, iPhones and other eye-catching items. Yet it’s not gifts that make for true holiday joy but what’s inside us, says Diana... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=686108" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:48:55 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Wendy Soderburg</author><title>Bruin Angels serve community in their own unique way</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/bruin-angels-serve-community-in-221032.aspx?link_page_rss=221032</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/bruin-angels-serve-community-in-221032.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Year after year, in good times and in bad, Bruins continue to serve others outside of their full-time jobs as staff and faculty members. So in keeping with tradition (and the spirit of the season), UCLA Today is honoring three selfless souls who... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=686090" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:48:13 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>Staff applause — Dec. 12, 2011</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-applause-dec-12-2011-220530.aspx?link_page_rss=220530</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-applause-dec-12-2011-220530.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Librarian and archivist Marjorie Lee edits landmark book on Japanese internment
Marjorie Lee, librarian and archivist in the UCLA Asian American Studies Center (AASC), is the co-editor, with community activist Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga, of the newly... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=685656" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:09:16 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>UCLA Athletics</author><title>Jim Mora selected UCLA's new head football coach</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/new-football-coach-220514.aspx?link_page_rss=220514</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/new-football-coach-220514.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA named former Seattle Seahawks and Atlanta Falcons head coach Jim L. Mora its Head Football Coach, replacing the departed Rick Neuheisel, it was announced Saturday by UCLA Director of Athletics Dan Guerrero.
 
Mora will be... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=685646" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:02:43 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Mary Daily</author><title>Angela Davis: The return of an activist scholar</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/angela-davis-an-activist-returns-220478.aspx?link_page_rss=220478</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/angela-davis-an-activist-returns-220478.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Activist and scholar Angela Davis returned to Westwood recently more than 40 years after a controversy over her hiring galvanized the UCLA faculty and campus leaders around the issue of academic freedom. She's a professor emerita at UC... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=685626" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 23:32:22 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>Verbatim — AIDS’ beginnings, circling for a parking spot and inheriting anxiety</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-aids-beginnings-bush-220420.aspx?link_page_rss=220420</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-aids-beginnings-bush-220420.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[“I felt very badly for the first patients who were very ill and we were not able to tell them what they had or what to do about it. I became angry later when society at large did not seem to care. At the start it never dawned on me that this was the... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=685611" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:48:08 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Mary Daily and Meg Sullivan</author><title>Building new connections between campus and a cultural treasure</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/building-new-connections-between-220399.aspx?link_page_rss=220399</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/building-new-connections-between-220399.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[For fans of UCLA&rsquo;s William Andrews Clark Memorial Library in the West Adams district, everything old is new again, thanks to Barbara Fuchs.
 



Barbara Fuchs is strenghtening ties between the Clark Library and campus by building new... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=685605" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:18:32 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Cynthia Lee</author><title>Staff News — Dec. 2, 2011</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-news-dec-2-2011-220092.aspx?link_page_rss=220092</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-news-dec-2-2011-220092.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Applause for UCLA Extension program directors
Van Anderson, UCLA Extension&rsquo;s program director for leadership, entrepreneurship, marketing, and international trade and commerce, has been appointed vice president of marketing and communications... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=685186" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 19:13:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Dan Gordon</author><title>'Do the right thing'</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/do-the-right-thing-219994.aspx?link_page_rss=219994</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/do-the-right-thing-219994.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Rebuilding the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center was &quot;the most challenging thing I have ever done,&quot; said Dr. Gerald Levey, who stepped down last year as vice chancellor of medical sciences and dean of the David Geffen School of... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=685155" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:51:13 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>She puts campus commuters on road to sustainability</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/penny-menton-219986.aspx?link_page_rss=219986</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/penny-menton-219986.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Imagine UCLA with no carpools, vanpools, subsidized fares for public transit or BruinBus shuttles &mdash; just a campus teeming with thousands of smog-spewing cars.
 

That was UCLA before Penny Menton went to work in the then-fledgling... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=685106" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:42:45 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Vice Chancellor Carole Goldberg</author><title>Vice Chancellor, Academic Personnel: Honoring UCLA emeriti faculty</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/vice-chancellor-academic-personnel-219664.aspx?link_page_rss=219664</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/vice-chancellor-academic-personnel-219664.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[November 23, 2011
 
Deans, Directors, Department Chairs and Administrative Officers
 

Dear Colleagues:
 
Our emeriti faculty have devoted years of dedicated service to UCLA and remain valued members of our campus community.... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=684361" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:25:23 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Steve Ritea</author><title>Coming home: Statue of John Wooden slated to grace new Pauley Pavilion</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/coming-home-statue-of-john-wooden-219581.aspx?link_page_rss=219581</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/coming-home-statue-of-john-wooden-219581.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[When Pauley Pavilion reopens its doors next season, the newly renovated arena will feature a statue of the legendary coach credited with transforming UCLA into a basketball powerhouse, John Wooden.
 

The statue will adorn the new plaza on... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=684351" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:11:20 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>UCLA Athletics</author><title>In Memoriam: UCLA basketball great Walt Hazzard</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/walt-hazzard-obit-219430.aspx?link_page_rss=219430</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/walt-hazzard-obit-219430.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Walt Hazzard, one of just seven UCLA men's basketball players to have his uniform number retired and the co-captain of UCLA's first NCAA championship team (1964), died Friday at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center following a long illness.... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=684281" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 20:47:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Rebecca Kendall/UCLA International Institute</author><title>Seeing Afghan history through Afghan eyes</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/seeing-afghan-history-through-219376.aspx?link_page_rss=219376</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/seeing-afghan-history-through-219376.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Nile Green clearly remembers the moment he first became interested in world events. He was about seven years old, and he and his schoolmates had been called into an assembly. There, they were told of the Soviet invasion of... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=684252" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:00:31 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Meg Sullivan</author><title>Bronze bells and mercury mirrors reflect China's past</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/bronze-bells-and-mercury-mirrors-219325.aspx?link_page_rss=219325</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/bronze-bells-and-mercury-mirrors-219325.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Art history prof Lothar von Falkenhausen, one of the first generation of Westerners in China's archaeological community after the Cultural Revolution, waxes poetic about mirrors encrusted in mother of pearl, jade and turquoise. <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=684230" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 01:35:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Rebecca Kendall, UCLA International Institute</author><title>New African Studies Center director seeks to dispel stereotypes</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/fran-oise-lionnet-219047.aspx?link_page_rss=219047</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/fran-oise-lionnet-219047.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
 
African Studies Center Director Françoise Lionnet wants to promote greater awareness of the continent’s rich culture and contributions.When Americans hear the word “Africa,” what often comes to mind are images of famine, war and... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=684135" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 21:17:13 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Cynthia Lee</author><title>Winston Doby, UCLA and UC leader who championed student diversity and access, dies</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/winston-doby-ucla-and-uc-leader-219027.aspx?link_page_rss=219027</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/winston-doby-ucla-and-uc-leader-219027.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Throughout his long career, Doby, UCLA's former vice chancellor for student affairs, sought to broaden educational opportunities for disadvantaged and underrepresented students. <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=684123" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:09:17 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>Professor and legendary jazz guitarist Kenny Burrell: 80 years young</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/kenny-burrell-profile-218723.aspx?link_page_rss=218723</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/kenny-burrell-profile-218723.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[&quot;My inspiration comes from the message Duke Ellington gave: ‘You are unique, be yourself, put out that thing that is you, then use your work ethic and produce great music.’&quot; 
 
Kenny Burrell, Distinguished Professor of Music and... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=684013" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 20:15:20 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Rebecca Kendall, UCLA International Institute</author><title>Scholar studies cinema, commerce in 21st-century China</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/aynne-kokas-218307.aspx?link_page_rss=218307</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/aynne-kokas-218307.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[

Doctoral student Aynne Kokas studies modern-day collaborations between China and America.

When Aynne Kokas watches movies like &quot;The Mummy,&quot; &quot;The Karate Kid&quot; or &quot;Mission Impossible,&quot; she isn&rsquo;t seeking mere entertainment. Instead,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=683549" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 23:33:26 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>10 Questions: Dracula expert Leslie Klinger</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/10-questions-for-dracula-expert-218133.aspx?link_page_rss=218133</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/10-questions-for-dracula-expert-218133.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Just in time for Halloween: UCLA Extension's Leslie Klinger on the history of this iconic vampire, the "downhill" trajectory from Dracula to Twilight, and the Count's original uninspired name. <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=683409" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:38:23 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Wendy Soderburg</author><title>From prairie to prokaryotes: the evolution of an evolutionary biologist</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/from-prairie-to-prokaryotes-the-218089.aspx?link_page_rss=218089</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/from-prairie-to-prokaryotes-the-218089.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[

Professor James Lake will deliver the 111th Faculty Research Lecture.

One can&rsquo;t help but think of &quot;Little House on the Prairie&quot; when James A. Lake describes his childhood.
 

The professor of molecular, cell and... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=683250" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 07:07:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Rebecca Kendall/UCLA International Institute</author><title>Professor hailed for half century of contributions as Middle East scholar, activist</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/professor-hailed-for-half-century-217895.aspx?link_page_rss=217895</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/professor-hailed-for-half-century-217895.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Sondra Hale has walked many different paths in life. Once a high school English teacher and tennis coach in Khartoum, she&rsquo;s been an actor, a professional ventriloquist, a photographer and, above all, an academic triple-threat as a... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=683119" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 21:53:46 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>Vice Chancellor Steven Olsen appointed chief financial officer</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/steve-olsen-vc-cfo-217810.aspx?link_page_rss=217810</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/steve-olsen-vc-cfo-217810.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Vice Chancellor Steven Olsen has been appointed to the expanded post of UCLA chief financial officer, Chancellor Gene Block announced in a letter to campus leaders.
 

Olsen&rsquo;s new role, which became effective Oct. 1, will... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=683066" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:35:14 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Wendy Soderburg</author><title>John Wooden: Up close and personal in pictures</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/john-wooden-up-close-and-personal-217417.aspx?link_page_rss=217417</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/john-wooden-up-close-and-personal-217417.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[There&rsquo;s a wonderful photo in &quot;Wooden: Basketball &amp; Beyond &mdash; The Official UCLA Retrospective,&quot; a brand-new book by ASUCLA and UCLA Athletics being released today. The photo, taken shortly after UCLA won its first NCAA championship in... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=682739" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:17:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Rebecca Kendall/UCLA International Institute</author><title>Grad student wins fans all over the world in Chinese competition</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/student-wins-fans-all-over-the-217303.aspx?link_page_rss=217303</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/student-wins-fans-all-over-the-217303.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[A UCLA East Asian Studies student gained throngs of fans in China, but he's not a traditional celebrity. He's idolized for being the top-placing American at the 2011 Chinese Bridge Competition, an international Chinese language and culture contest. <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=682645" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:52:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Rebecca Kendall/UCLA International Institute</author><title>History of survival, recovery after atomic bombings inspire scholar</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/history-of-atomic-bombing-recovery-217177.aspx?link_page_rss=217177</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/history-of-atomic-bombing-recovery-217177.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
If language is like wine on the lips, as once professed by English writer Virginia Wolff, then the language of Japan, especially its written script, has been nothing less than intoxicating to Chad Diehl for more than a decade.

 
Diehl... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=682540" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 21:36:02 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Jack Feuer</author><title>10 Questions for virus hunter Anne Rimoin</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/10-questions-for-virus-hunter-217123.aspx?link_page_rss=217123</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/10-questions-for-virus-hunter-217123.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), they call her Mama Etete &mdash; The Woman Who Never Gives Up. UCLA Assistant Professor of Epidemiology Anne Rimoin is a virus hunter and an American archetype: the brave and resourceful... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=682492" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 23:25:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>Great Wall restoration gives untold history new life</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/judy-baca-great-wall-of-la-216853.aspx?link_page_rss=216853</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/judy-baca-great-wall-of-la-216853.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[

Judy Baca at the Great Wall of Los Angeles, which she created nearly four decades ago and recently restored. (Photos by Christelle Nahas.)


Gaspar de Portola&rsquo;s expedition to the California coastline in 1769 &mdash; the beginning of the end... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=682437" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 19:23:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>Faculty partnering across campus win first Transdisciplinary Seed Grants</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/faculty-partnering-across-campus-216844.aspx?link_page_rss=216844</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/faculty-partnering-across-campus-216844.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Can the self-esteem of children struggling with congenital facial deformities be enhanced by teaching them to create art using photography and video? Seeking to answer this question are internationally renowned photographer Catherine Opie of the... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=682387" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 21:31:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>Flash mob helps Bruin pop the question</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/alumni-marriage-proposal-creates-216406.aspx?link_page_rss=216406</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/alumni-marriage-proposal-creates-216406.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[An alumni marriage proposal on campus turned into "a real-life musical" when a 200-person flash mob performed for the lucky bride-to-be last Saturday.
 <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=682041" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 22:21:29 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Wendy Soderburg</author><title>UCLA's most spirited staff member keeps students in good cheer</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-s-most-spirited-staff-member-216390.aspx?link_page_rss=216390</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-s-most-spirited-staff-member-216390.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[

Mollie Vehling, director of the UCLA Spirit Squad

Buffy Quinn has a fun story about how her daughter, Mollie Vehling &mdash; director of the 36-member UCLA Spirit Squad &mdash; was first exposed to dance. The night before Vehling was born, Buffy... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=682039" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 21:16:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Peter M. Bracke</author><title>Researcher seeks to defy odds in taking on pancreatic cancer</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/dr-story-216247.aspx?link_page_rss=216247</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/dr-story-216247.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Dr. David Dawson has never been intimidated by the odds.
 
An assistant professor of pathology and laboratory medicine and a researcher at UCLA&rsquo;s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Dawson is tackling one of medicine&rsquo;s fiercest... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=681877" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 15:35:12 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>Senate leader says faculty can — and should — contribute to campus vision</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/andrew-leuchter-academic-senate-215916.aspx?link_page_rss=215916</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/andrew-leuchter-academic-senate-215916.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[If you think you can contribute to making UCLA an even greater place &mdash; just do it.
 

Dr. Andrew Leuchter, a psychiatrist and new chair of the UCLA Academic Senate, has taken this motto to heart throughout his 25 years on the faculty.... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=681734" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:33:25 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Wendy Soderburg</author><title>UCLA doctor designs dashing duds</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-doctor-designs-dashing-duds-215434.aspx?link_page_rss=215434</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-doctor-designs-dashing-duds-215434.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[

UCLA physician Roderick Tung is a custom dress-shirt designer in his spare time. Here, he models a shirt from one of his own collections.

Who needs &quot;Project Runway&quot;?
 

Certainly not Dr. Roderick Tung, assistant professor of medicine in... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=681394" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:07:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Wendy Soderburg</author><title>UCLA’s top teachers: Music composition prof hits all the right notes</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-s-top-teachers-music-composition-215114.aspx?link_page_rss=215114</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-s-top-teachers-music-composition-215114.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
UCLA&rsquo;s Academic Senate has awarded the campus&rsquo; highest teaching prize, the Distinguished Teaching Award, to six Academic Senate members. UCLA Today has been profiling the 2011 winners throughout the summer; this is the last in the... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=681035" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 20:39:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>'Where I was on Sept. 11' — Bruins share their memories</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/bruin-memories-of-sept-11-215118.aspx?link_page_rss=215118</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/bruin-memories-of-sept-11-215118.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Because almost everyone remembers the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, we each carry part of the story. Bruins shared their memories of how they heard the news on Sept. 11, or in some cases, how they saw it happening. <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=681042" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 20:16:25 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>Mirror, mirror, off the wall</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/mirror-mirror-off-the-wall-214885.aspx?link_page_rss=214885</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/mirror-mirror-off-the-wall-214885.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA sociology student Kjerstin Gruys has sworn off mirrors for a year to improve her self-image. She's halfway through, but she still has her wedding to get through. <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=680891" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:58:04 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>UCLA's top teachers: Law prof trains defenders of environment</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-s-top-teachers-inventing-214682.aspx?link_page_rss=214682</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-s-top-teachers-inventing-214682.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[When Environmental Law Professor Ann Carlson first made the switch from politics and law firms to UCLA in 1994, she jumped right in by creating the school’s environmental law clinic. <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=680655" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:11:58 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Meg Sullivan</author><title>10 Questions for economist Lee Ohanian: Why credit-rating agencies matter</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/10-questions-why-ratings-agencies-213456.aspx?link_page_rss=213456</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/10-questions-why-ratings-agencies-213456.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA economist Lee Ohanian answers questions about international ratings agencies like Standard and Poor's in the wake of S&P's downgrade of U.S. debt. <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=679777" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 21:41:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Staff news — Rafer Johnson returns, new university registrar</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-news-rafer-johnson-returns-211627.aspx?link_page_rss=211627</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-news-rafer-johnson-returns-211627.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Rafer Johnson returns to campus

 
Rafer Johnson, Olympic gold medalist and the epitome of the UCLA student-athlete, is returning to his alma mater as a special assistant to Athletic Director Dan Guerrero.


 
&quot;Rafer represents all that is... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=678846" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 15:22:04 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Cynthia Lee</author><title>UCLA's top teachers: Delivering knowledge in three dimensions</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-s-top-teachers-delivering-211520.aspx?link_page_rss=211520</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-s-top-teachers-delivering-211520.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The UCLA Academic Senate has awarded six Academic Senate members with UCLA&rsquo;s highest teaching prize. In an occasional series of stories that will run throughout the summer, UCLA Today will profile these winners of the 2011... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=678805" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 19:09:55 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>Researchers use wireless technology to speed transition to electric vehicles</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/rajit-gadh-electric-vehicle-research-211170.aspx?link_page_rss=211170</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/rajit-gadh-electric-vehicle-research-211170.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[

For Engineering Professor Rajit Gadh, knowledge is power. In particular, that&rsquo;s electric power and finding new ways to harness, store and deliver it as growing numbers of American drivers give up their gas-guzzlers for electric... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=678315" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 23:50:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>UCLA's top teacher: For psychologist and mentor, it’s all about relationships</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/andrew-christensen-2011-distinguished-211157.aspx?link_page_rss=211157</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/andrew-christensen-2011-distinguished-211157.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Students cherish them. Their colleagues admire them. Former students remember them as being a major influence in their lives. And now the UCLA Academic Senate is honoring them with UCLA’s highest teaching prize. In an occasional series of stories... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=678311" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 21:40:32 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Emilio Hernandez</author><title>Staff news — July 22, 2011</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-news-in-memoriam-miles-kitasato-210937.aspx?link_page_rss=210937</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-news-in-memoriam-miles-kitasato-210937.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Miles Kitasato, assistant superintendent of grounds, died at his home in Monterey Park on July 4 after a brief battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 55. 
 
A native to Hawaii, Kitasato is survived by his wife Jill and his two stepsons,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=678096" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:10:56 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>10 Questions for Daniel Blumstein: Breaking dinner-party taboos</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/tackling-touchy-topics-with-dinner-210900.aspx?link_page_rss=210900</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/tackling-touchy-topics-with-dinner-210900.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[With national discourse facing a serious civility crisis, professor Daniel Blumstein has a new book and blog about how to host provocative but civil dinners — recipes included. <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=678043" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 22:42:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Letisia Marquez</author><title>Champion of diversity widens pathway to opportunity</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/champion-of-diversity-widens-pathway-210894.aspx?link_page_rss=210894</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/champion-of-diversity-widens-pathway-210894.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[When the enrollment of African American students at UCLA decreased to 100 students in 2006, Darnell Hunt, director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, knew he had his work cut out for him.
 
Hunt provided community... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=678037" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:56:01 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>V. Claire Jadulang</author><title>10 Questions for baby name expert Albert Mehrabian</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/10-questions-for-baby-name-expert-210599.aspx?link_page_rss=210599</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/10-questions-for-baby-name-expert-210599.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Albert Mehrabian, professor emeritus of psychology, is the go-to guy for baby names. He&rsquo;s been contacted by more than a thousand parents asking for advice on what to name their children. That&rsquo;s because he&rsquo;s unlocked some of... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=677681" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 22:39:38 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Wendy Soderburg</author><title>Former political strategist uses his skills to help UCLA in Sacramento</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/former-political-strategist-uses-210114.aspx?link_page_rss=210114</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/former-political-strategist-uses-210114.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[

Chaitanya Komanduri, assistant director of state government relations

Chaitanya Komanduri, assistant director of state government relations in UCLA&rsquo;s Office of Government and Community Relations, got an early start as a political junkie: At... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=677582" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 19:35:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Mary Daily</author><title>Digital arts transport scholar to ancient Rome</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/he-uses-digital-arts-to-revive-210434.aspx?link_page_rss=210434</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/he-uses-digital-arts-to-revive-210434.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[

Powerful digital technology has enabled scholars to study the stagecraft of funerals of prominent Roman citizens as well as the gladitorial games that followed.

As a freshman, Chris Johanson began college at Iowa State University with plans to be... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=677507" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 22:36:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Cynthia Lee</author><title>Staff news -- leadership award winner, UC retirement board, librarian of the year</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-news-uc-retirement-board-209326.aspx?link_page_rss=209326</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-news-uc-retirement-board-209326.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
2011 Excellence in Leadership Award 
Angela Marciano, director of planning, performance and development for Housing &amp; Hospitality Services, has received the 2011 Excellence in Leadership (EXCEL) Award. Given by UCLA&rsquo;s Administrative... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=677049" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:01:42 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>Staff Assembly award winners</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-assembly-awards-208610.aspx?link_page_rss=208610</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-assembly-awards-208610.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Staff Assembly  has announced the winners of the organization's annual awards and scholarships. Four staff members have been named to receive 2010-2011 Chancellor's Excellence in Service Awards:
 
• Civic Engagement: Penny... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=676830" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 17:32:40 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Cynthia Lee</author><title>Parting words: New UCLA retirees look back and then forward</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/parting-words-new-ucla-retirees-208573.aspx?link_page_rss=208573</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/parting-words-new-ucla-retirees-208573.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[June is the time when UCLA bids farewell to many faculty and staff who are retiring. The &quot;graduating class&quot; of new retirees comes from campus departments and offices far and wide. And they will be sorely missed. Here are some parting words from a... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=676783" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:02:44 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>Staff leader learns from adversity — from drive-by shootings to family hardship</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/overcoming-adversity-from-drive-208569.aspx?link_page_rss=208569</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/overcoming-adversity-from-drive-208569.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
 
Brandie Henderson takes her new post as president of UCLA Staff Assembly on July 1.When she was just six years old, Brandie Henderson found herself facing a life-changing challenge. Dangling before the first-grader from 74th Street Elementary... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=676784" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:45:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Wendy Soderburg</author><title>A Father's Day tale of love, laughter — and lots of doughnuts</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/love-laughter-and-lots-and-lots-208164.aspx?link_page_rss=208164</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/love-laughter-and-lots-and-lots-208164.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[A Father's Day story about a childhood spent bartering with maple bars and learning the value of hard work from Dad. <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=676435" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:10:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>10 Questions for Sheila Kuehl</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/10-questions-for-sheila-kuehl-208170.aspx?link_page_rss=208170</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/10-questions-for-sheila-kuehl-208170.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Newly appointed Regents' Professor Sheila Kuehl was a UCLA student, staffer and faculty member before spending 14 years as a state legislator. Now, she talks about the policy class she'll teach in her return to UCLA. <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=676416" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 18:03:53 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin, Cynthia Lee, Esther Woo-Benjamin</author><title>Staff News — Emeriti legacy, diversity, staff inmemoriam</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-news-june-16-2011-208162.aspx?link_page_rss=208162</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-news-june-16-2011-208162.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Retirees, emeriti celebrate a legacy of leadership
Faculty and staff will gather Tuesday, June 21, at the Faculty Center from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. to honor the legacy of the late Marian G. Broome, the founding director of the UCLA Emeriti... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=676413" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:02:45 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Wendy Soderburg</author><title>Social psychologist is winner of 2011 Gold Shield Faculty Prize</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/matthew-lieberman-207885.aspx?link_page_rss=207885</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/matthew-lieberman-207885.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[

Psychology Professor Matt Lieberman

&quot;I first saw Dr. Matt Lieberman taking the stage of a lecture hall as my professor for social psychology about five months ago. He was wearing flip-flops, a pair of khaki pants and a casual blue polo, making... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=676058" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:00:37 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>UCLA Today Staff</author><title>Staff News — June 8, 2011</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-news-june-8-2011-207826.aspx?link_page_rss=207826</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-news-june-8-2011-207826.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[James Washington named director of scholarship development, Intercollegiate Athletics 



























 
James WashingtonJames Washington, one of the greatest safeties in UCLA football history and a... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=675988" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 18:15:08 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>Meet UCLA Live's new director, Kristy Edmunds</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/meet-ucla-live-s-new-director-203802.aspx?link_page_rss=203802</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/meet-ucla-live-s-new-director-203802.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UPDATE: Event canceled. RSVP for a Royce Hall lunch, Q&A and reception with UCLA Live's new executive and creative director, Kristy Edmunds. <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=675126" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 21:09:23 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>UCLA’s Kevin Smith to represent staff on UC Board of Regents</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/kevin-smith-203777.aspx?link_page_rss=203777</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/kevin-smith-203777.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
 
UCLA's Kevin Smith, appointed by UC President Mark Yudof, will advocate for staff systemwide in his new post. Photo by Reed Hutchinson.At a time when the University of California is trying to figure out how to protect excellence and access in... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=675127" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 16:41:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Dean of Graduate School of Education &amp; Information Studies to step down</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/dean-of-graduate-school-of-education-202673.aspx?link_page_rss=202673</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/dean-of-graduate-school-of-education-202673.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Aim&eacute;e Dorr, dean of the Graduate School of Education &amp; Information Studies, has announced she will step down effective June 30, 2012.
 
&quot;Aim&eacute;e has served UCLA with great distinction and dedication,&quot; said Executive... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=674501" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 18:57:40 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Matthew Alexander</author><title>Tortured logic: Waterboarding didn't help U.S. get bin Laden</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/tortured-logic-waterboarding-didn-202666.aspx?link_page_rss=202666</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/tortured-logic-waterboarding-didn-202666.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Interrogation expert and UCLA Burkle Fellow Matthew Alexander says the U.S. found bin Laden with intel that didn't come from torture, and torture may have even delayed intel. <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=674495" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 16:06:53 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>In Memoriam: Roy H. Aaron, UCLA Foundation chair emeritus</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/in-memoriam-roy-h-aaron-ucla-foundation-202488.aspx?link_page_rss=202488</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/in-memoriam-roy-h-aaron-ucla-foundation-202488.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Roy H. Aaron, chair emeritus of the UCLA Foundation who served as co-chair of Campaign UCLA, died from complications of cancer on April 25 in Los Angeles. He was 82.
 
Aaron — an attorney, arbitrator and former president of the Los Angeles... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=674199" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 19:45:05 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Cynthia Lee</author><title>Carnesale to receive the Harvard Medal</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/carnesale-to-receive-the-harvard-202368.aspx?link_page_rss=202368</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/carnesale-to-receive-the-harvard-202368.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Harvard University will award UCLA Chancellor Emeritus Albert Carnesale the Harvard Medal in recognition of his extraordinary service to that university during his 23-year tenure there, from 1974 to 1997, the year he left Harvard as provost to... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=674097" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 19:04:59 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>UCLA pediatrician becomes a voice for children in Japan</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/kozue-shimabukuro-becomes-a-voice-202338.aspx?link_page_rss=202338</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/kozue-shimabukuro-becomes-a-voice-202338.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA pediatric critical care doctor Kozue Shimabukuro flew to Japan and joined a roving government medical team in the first weeks after the quake and tsunami. This week, she spoke to give a voice to the tsunami orphans still in need of help. <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=674088" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:07:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>Staff News – April 25, 2011</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-news-april-25-2011-202205.aspx?link_page_rss=202205</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-news-april-25-2011-202205.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Charles J. Alexander honored as Champion of Health Professions Diversity
Charles J. Alexander, director of the Academic Advancement Program (AAP) at UCLA, has been named one of three 2011 Champions of Health Professions Diversity by the California... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=673921" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 23:38:43 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Cynthia Lee</author><title>Campus fills two key leadership positions</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/campus-fills-two-key-leadership-202204.aspx?link_page_rss=202204</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/campus-fills-two-key-leadership-202204.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Scott Waugh recently made two appointments to key leadership positions. Professor Carole E. Goldberg will become the new vice chancellor of academic personnel while Professor Robin L. Garrell will head the... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=673920" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 23:30:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>UCLA News|Week: Chancellor Emeritus Albert Carnesale on the lessons of Fukushima</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-news-week-chancellor-emeritus-202137.aspx?link_page_rss=202137</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-news-week-chancellor-emeritus-202137.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[This week's video show presents top UCLA experts discussing the future of nuclear power and Americans' reluctance to prepare for the worst. Go here.
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UCLA's new head women's basketball Coach Cori Close

Cori Close, who has coached in 15 consecutive NCAA basketball tournaments, was named head women&rsquo;s basketball coach, UCLA Athletics announced Thursday.
 
This is the first... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=673825" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 06:54:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>UCLA alumna Kay Ryan wins Pulitzer for poetry</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-alumna-kay-ryan-wins-pulitzer-201714.aspx?link_page_rss=201714</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-alumna-kay-ryan-wins-pulitzer-201714.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA alumna and former poet laureate Kay Ryan won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. The Pulitzer announcement describes Ryan's poems as "witty, rebellious and yet tender, a treasure trove of an iconoclastic and joyful mind." Ryan received her bachelor's and master's in English from UCLA in 1967 and '68. <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=673586" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:38:41 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Wendy Soderburg</author><title>Popular Armenian studies professor is chosen to deliver ‘My Last Lecture’</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/popular-armenian-studies-professor-201570.aspx?link_page_rss=201570</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/popular-armenian-studies-professor-201570.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Richard Hovannisian, professor of Armenian and Near Eastern history, admitted that he was a bit dumbfounded when he first learned that he had been chosen by the UCLA student body to deliver a talk called &quot;My Last Lecture.&quot;
 
&quot;When the... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=673474" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 19:27:23 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin, Cynthia Lee</author><title>Staff News — April 13, 2011</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-news-april-13-2011-201503.aspx?link_page_rss=201503</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-news-april-13-2011-201503.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Provost James Davis joins Manufacturing Leadership Council Board
James Davis, UCLA provost of information technology, has been appointed to the Manufacturing Leadership Council Board, made up of manufacturing executives, academics, researchers and... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=673381" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 00:15:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Kevin Matthews</author><title>Q&amp;A with Russia expert Daniel Treisman</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/10-questions-for-russian-expert-200347.aspx?link_page_rss=200347</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/10-questions-for-russian-expert-200347.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Professor of Political Science Daniel Treisman first traveled to Russia in 1988, just before the beginning of sweeping change in Eastern Europe and the dismantling of the Soviet Union in 1991. Treisman has written &quot;The Return: Russia's Journey... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=673194" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 22:43:46 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Meg Sullivan</author><title>10 Questions for UCLA's Nobel Prize-winning economist Elinor Ostrom</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/10-questions-for-nobel-prize-winning-200205.aspx?link_page_rss=200205</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/10-questions-for-nobel-prize-winning-200205.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Political economist Elinor Ostrom is the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in economics and the only UCLA alumna and former staff member ever to capture the vaunted award. But she began breaking through barriers long before she started her... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=673091" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 16:01:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>Art historian, critic brings to light work of artists in shadows</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/art-historian-critic-brings-to-199866.aspx?link_page_rss=199866</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/art-historian-critic-brings-to-199866.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA art historian and Professor George Baker spent his 20s in art galleries in New York and Paris, and often examines the work of marginalized artists. This year, the art critic's essays are featured parts of four different museum exhibits. <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=672935" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 15:55:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Wendy Soderburg</author><title>Scion from famous folk-singing clan puts his own spin on music</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/scion-from-famous-folk-singing-199871.aspx?link_page_rss=199871</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/scion-from-famous-folk-singing-199871.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
When Anthony Seeger was a boy, one of his most powerful childhood memories, appropriately enough, revolved around a song.
 
&quot;I remember playing a 78 rpm record of a union song &mdash; I think it was &lsquo;Union Maid&rsquo; &mdash; in my room... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=672809" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 21:45:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>10 Questions for Brad Sears on toppling myths about the LGBT world</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/brad-sears-williams-institute-199469.aspx?link_page_rss=199469</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/brad-sears-williams-institute-199469.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Brad Sears is the executive director of the Williams Institute at UCLA&rsquo;s School of Law and an adjunct professor who teaches courses on sexual orientation law, disability law and U.S. legal and judicial systems. The Williams Institute,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=672514" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:38:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>UC suspends travel to Japan; UCLA experts with Japanese roots aid in disaster</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/uc-suspends-travel-in-japan-bruin-199411.aspx?link_page_rss=199411</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/uc-suspends-travel-in-japan-bruin-199411.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UC will only approve travel for staff, faculty or students who obtain permission from the U.S. or Japanese governments. Meanwhile, three UCLA experts with family ties to Japan are providing aid to the country. <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=672419" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:22:17 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
