<?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>Tue, 08 May 2012 22:11:46 GMT</pubDate><title>People</title><description /><copyright>UCLA Today</copyright><generator>iPressroom.com</generator><item><author>Rebecca Kendall, UCLA International Institute</author><title>George Dutton Vietnam expert</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/george-dutton-vietnam-expert-233693.aspx?link_page_rss=233693</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/george-dutton-vietnam-expert-233693.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[George Dutton, an associate professor of Southeast Asian studies, credits his lifelong interest in that region of the world to his parents — antiwar activists in the Vietnam War era. 
 

&quot;My earliest memories as a child were protesting the... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692597" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 22:11:46 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>Psychologist’s studies make sense of bullying</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/bullying-jaana-juvonen-233108.aspx?link_page_rss=233108</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/bullying-jaana-juvonen-233108.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
 
Jaana Juvonen is a sought-after authority on bullying.Everyone knows that school bullies torment their peers to compensate for low self-esteem, and that they are scorned as much as they are feared. 
 

But &quot;everyone&quot; got it wrong,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692329" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 17:27:34 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin and Matt Boatright-Simon</author><title>10 Questions: Darnell Hunt on L.A’s 1992 civil uprisings</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/10-questions-darnell-hunt-on-the-232498.aspx?link_page_rss=232498</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/10-questions-darnell-hunt-on-the-232498.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Professor of Sociology Darnell Hunt, director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, was a UCLA graduate student 20 years ago when the verdicts that exonerated four Los Angeles police officers in the Rodney King beating case... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=690976" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:03:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Wendy Soderburg</author><title>Acclaimed historian goes the distance from Cuba to the classroom</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/historian-will-deliver-112th-faculty-232267.aspx?link_page_rss=232267</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/historian-will-deliver-112th-faculty-232267.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[

Teofilo Ruiz

At 3:30 p.m. one recent Tuesday, cavernous Moore Hall 100 was completely packed for the first day of Professor Teofilo Ruiz&rsquo;s History 2C course. Students buzzed about the strange scene that developed before them: Four lit... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=690860" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:10:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Margaret MacDonald</author><title>Shakespeare scholar named holder of first UCLA chair for undergraduate teaching</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/shakespeare-scholar-named-holder-232170.aspx?link_page_rss=232170</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/shakespeare-scholar-named-holder-232170.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Professor of English Robert Watson has had a lifelong interest in subjects relating to history, from Shakespeare to environmentalism in Renaissance times to the politically charged climate of America in the 1960s — and he is constantly imparting... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=690801" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 23:10:41 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Rebecca Kendall/International Institute</author><title>Scholar examines 'Sesame Street’s' role in managing political conflict</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/scholar-examines-sesame-street-232028.aspx?link_page_rss=232028</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/scholar-examines-sesame-street-232028.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Can something as simple as a PlayStation play a role in promoting peace in Western Sahara? Can “Sesame Street” be used to mediate conflict between Palestinians and Israelis? Very tentatively and with a lot of tinkering and attention, perhaps they can, says UCLA visiting researcher Yael Warshel. <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=690718" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:13:01 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>Conservation consternation: Prof studies Amazon's forest people</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/conservation-consternation-prof-232009.aspx?link_page_rss=232009</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/conservation-consternation-prof-232009.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[To the untrained eye, the Amazon rainforest looks pristine and untouched by humans. But that picture is a myth. In Brazil, more than half of the Amazon’s conservation areas are actually inhabited. <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=690700" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 22:45:38 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Wendy Soderburg</author><title>Al Scates: 50 years of Bruin volleyball</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/al-scates-50-years-of-bruin-volleyball-231812.aspx?link_page_rss=231812</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/al-scates-50-years-of-bruin-volleyball-231812.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[No athletic program at UCLA has won more victories or titles in the past half-century than Al Scates' Bruin men's volleyball teams. With the legendary coach set to retire in June, players, assistants and even Scates' rivals are paying homage to one... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=690602" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 22:48:53 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Wendy Soderburg</author><title>Staff News — April 4, 2012</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-news-april-4-2012-231645.aspx?link_page_rss=231645</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-news-april-4-2012-231645.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Billie P. Weiss hailed as &lsquo;local hero&rsquo;
Billie P. Weiss, associate director of the Southern California Injury Prevention Research Program at the UCLA School of Public Health and founder of the Violence Prevention Coalition of Greater Los... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=690524" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 02:05:05 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Meg Sullivan</author><title>For this acclaimed writer, Southern California is the perfect hideaway</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/for-this-literary-celebrity-southern-231628.aspx?link_page_rss=231628</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/for-this-literary-celebrity-southern-231628.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[A French news crew followed Alain Mabanckou on his first day of teaching at UCLA in 2006.
 
Later that year the Congolese author, a UCLA professor of French and Francophone studies, won the French equivalent of the National Book... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=690518" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 20:25:22 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Cynthia Lee</author><title>In Memoriam: Computer science pioneer Gerald Estrin</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/in-memoriam-computer-science-pioneer-231610.aspx?link_page_rss=231610</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/in-memoriam-computer-science-pioneer-231610.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Gerald (Jerry) Estrin, a professor emeritus at UCLA who worked as a research engineer on one of the earliest computers, died March 29 at his home in Santa Monica at age 90. Many of the pioneers of the Internet were among his students and... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=690508" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:24:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Political scientist looks at candidates' messages on the economy</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/expert-on-political-messaging-231558.aspx?link_page_rss=231558</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/expert-on-political-messaging-231558.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA political scientist Lynn Vavreck is one of two UC faculty members recently featured on UCTV's latest &quot;Prime: Vote&quot; in a discussion about the politics of the economy in the presidential race.
 

Vavreck, an associate professor of... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=690473" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 18:41:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>‘Odd-couple’ pairings energize research, win grants</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/odd-couple-pairings-energize-231457.aspx?link_page_rss=231457</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/odd-couple-pairings-energize-231457.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Professors from opposite ends of UCLA’s campus are teaming up to imagine video games that both the blind and sighted could play together, web-scanning algorithms to analyze how vaccination rumors can affect behavior, and bus stops with lights that grow brighter as the bus approaches. <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=690423" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 20:02:31 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Wileen Wong Kromhout</author><title>Judea Pearl's work on artificial intelligence impacts modern world</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/judea-pearl-s-impact-on-artificial-231213.aspx?link_page_rss=231213</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/judea-pearl-s-impact-on-artificial-231213.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Although there&rsquo;s evidence that the idea of artificial intelligence (AI) goes back centuries to antiquity, with myths of artificial beings bestowed with intelligence or consciousness, the actual research field of AI began at a conference on the... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=690336" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:38:16 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Kathy Wyer/Graduate School of Education &amp; Information Sciences</author><title>10 Questions: Leah Lievrouw on the loss of online privacy</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/10-questions-231158.aspx?link_page_rss=231158</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/10-questions-231158.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
As online companies such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter routinely gather personal information about users, consumers have begun to ask questions about how such business practices affect their privacy. The range of personal information gathered by... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=690288" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:01:04 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Bettye Miller, UC Riverside</author><title>UCLA alum Juan Felipe Herrera is named California Poet Laureate</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-alum-juan-felipe-herrera-231041.aspx?link_page_rss=231041</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-alum-juan-felipe-herrera-231041.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Juan Felipe Herrera, a UCLA alumnus and professor of creative writing at UC Riverside, has been named California Poet Laureate by Gov. Jerry Brown. Known for chronicling the bittersweet lives, travails and contributions of Mexican Americans,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=690225" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:53:37 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Katherine Tam/UC Office of the President</author><title>He balances hospital security job with military service</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/he-s-waiting-for-the-call-231033.aspx?link_page_rss=231033</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/he-s-waiting-for-the-call-231033.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Edward Galvan doesn't know when the call will come.
 
It could be next month or next week. It could be tomorrow. But when it comes, Galvan must be ready to report for duty within 24 hours, regardless of where it is.
 

Galvan, a security... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=690221" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:12:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Wendy Soderburg</author><title>After Hours: The amateur stargazer</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/after-hours-the-amateur-astronomer-231012.aspx?link_page_rss=231012</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/after-hours-the-amateur-astronomer-231012.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[

Francis Longstaff, professor of finance and amateur astronomer, displays one of his favorite images, the Elephant's Trunk Nebula.

In this latest installment of &quot;After Hours&quot; &mdash; a series about faculty and staff who balance their work lives... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=690212" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 22:20:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>UCTV Prime</author><title>Ask an expert about political messaging</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ask-an-expert-about-political-230714.aspx?link_page_rss=230714</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ask-an-expert-about-political-230714.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Are you already fed up with the barrage of political messages hitting you from all directions during this heated political season? Here&rsquo;s your chance to find out what&rsquo;s behind it all from a UCLA political scientist with expertise on... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=690071" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:46:16 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Jessica Nazar</author><title>After Hours: the Irish pub musician</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/after-hours-the-irish-pub-musician-230439.aspx?link_page_rss=230439</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/after-hours-the-irish-pub-musician-230439.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[With St. Patrick's Day coming up, &ldquo;After Hours,&rdquo; a series showcasing faculty and staff who are passionate about their activities beyond the work-a-day world, explores the fun of playing traditional Irish tunes in a pub. Meet Tim... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=689836" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:38:29 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>Professor gets schooled by gangs of L.A.</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/jorja-leap-jumped-in-book-230195.aspx?link_page_rss=230195</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/jorja-leap-jumped-in-book-230195.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Jorja Leap could write a book on her work as a gang expert extraordinaire, citing statistics about probation, parole and recidivism from her longitudinal studies of Homeboy Industries and other gang-intervention programs aimed at giving the... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=689726" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 01:40:42 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>After Hours: a photo a day for 1,462 days</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/after-hours-a-photo-a-day-for-230169.aspx?link_page_rss=230169</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/after-hours-a-photo-a-day-for-230169.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA staffer Jonathan Wilson is a dedicated amateur photographer who challenged himself to an extreme task on “leap day,” Feb. 29, 2008: to take one inspired photo every day for four years until the next leap day in 2012. He completed his 1,462-day odyssey last week on Feb. 29. <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=689689" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 22:37:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Two Bruins take home Oscar gold</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/two-bruins-take-home-oscar-gold-229750.aspx?link_page_rss=229750</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/two-bruins-take-home-oscar-gold-229750.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[

Alexander Payne wins his second Oscar. Photo credit: Michael Yada / &copy; A.M.P.A.S.

Two UCLA alumni walked away from the the Hollywood and Highland Center Sunday night weighed down by gold &mdash; Oscar gold. Gore Verbinski, a 1987 graduate,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=689170" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 22:54:53 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Rebecca Kendall, UCLA International Institute</author><title>Lab School diversity shaped his worldview, says Councilmember Eric Garcetti</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/l-a-city-councilmember-eric-garcetti-229438.aspx?link_page_rss=229438</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/l-a-city-councilmember-eric-garcetti-229438.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Los Angeles City Councilmember Eric Garcetti experienced a homecoming of sorts on Feb. 16 while speaking at the UCLA Lab School,where he attended elementary school. 
 

Hosted by the UCLA Latin American Institute and the UCLA César E. Chávez... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=688668" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:17:55 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>10 questions: Rakesh Sarin on money and happiness</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/10-questions-rakesh-sarin-229248.aspx?link_page_rss=229248</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/10-questions-rakesh-sarin-229248.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[If only you had gobs of money &mdash;a cool car, big house, non-stop vacation &mdash; you&rsquo;d definitely be happy, right? Don&rsquo;t be so sure, says Professor Rakesh Sarin, Paine Chair in Management at UCLA&rsquo;s Anderson School of... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=688598" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:41:38 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Susan Suleiman/UC Office of the President</author><title>10 questions: Conservation prof on a fascinating extinction</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/waterdogs-vs-tiger-salamanders-229156.aspx?link_page_rss=229156</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/waterdogs-vs-tiger-salamanders-229156.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Conservation professor Brad Shaffer studies how invasive waterdogs are breeding with California tiger salamanders, and how the hybrids are out-competing the natives, much like human-Neanderthal hybrids may once have done. <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=688491" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:29:49 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Bekah Wright</author><title>Bruin alumni in love</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/bruins-in-love-228999.aspx?link_page_rss=228999</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/bruins-in-love-228999.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA love connections are nothing new. Here are six Bruin love stories, from 1944 to 2004. <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=688428" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:41:50 GMT</pubDate></item><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></channel></rss>
