﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut</link><language>en-us</language><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:47:35 GMT</pubDate><title>Top Stories</title><description /><copyright>UCLA Today</copyright><generator>iPressroom.com</generator><item><author>Kevin Matthews</author><title>Law students take pulse on issues of global justice at The Hague</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/law-students-take-pulse-on-issues-149210.aspx?link_page_rss=149210</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/law-students-take-pulse-on-issues-149210.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[In Professor David Kaye's law course, students go where the action is in international human rights. For these motivated students, who study the mechanisms of justice for war crimes and crimes against humanity and genocide, that arena is The Hague... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=355459" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:47:35 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Clock ticks down on Open Enrollment</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/clock-ticks-down-on-open-enrollment-149201.aspx?link_page_rss=149201</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/clock-ticks-down-on-open-enrollment-149201.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[In the rush to make plans for Thanksgiving or to start that holiday gift list before Black Friday sales, don't forget that Open Enrollment will close at 5 p.m. tomorrow (Tuesday, Nov. 24). If you wait until the end November to make... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=355447" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:33:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>UCOP</author><title>UC seeking $913 million increase in state funding</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/uc-president-seeking-913-million-149138.aspx?link_page_rss=149138</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/uc-president-seeking-913-million-149138.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Seeking to restore funding cuts that have led to furloughs and fee increases, the University of California will advocate for a $913 million increase in its allocation from the state as part of a budget plan for fiscal year 2010-11 to be presented to... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=355387" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:24:22 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alec Rosenberg</author><title>UC to help reopen South L.A.'s MLK hospital</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/uc-to-help-reopen-south-l-a-s-112842.aspx?link_page_rss=112842</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/uc-to-help-reopen-south-l-a-s-112842.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[

Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas addresses the media after the UC regents approved a UC-county partnership to reopen Martin Luther King Jr. Hospital. Regent William De La Pe&ntilde;a and Chancellor Gene Block appear in... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=355373" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:38:13 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>Block warns of challenges ahead for student diversity</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/gains-in-student-diversity-threatened-112835.aspx?link_page_rss=112835</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/gains-in-student-diversity-threatened-112835.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA has come a long way from 2006 when enrollment of 100 African American freshmen was at a 30-year low, Chancellor Gene Block told the UC regents during a Nov. 18 meeting at Covel Commons. Over the last three years, UCLA has managed to double that... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=355372" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:28:17 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Harry Mok</author><title>UC Commission on the Future hears radical funding ideas</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/uc-commission-on-the-future-hears-112728.aspx?link_page_rss=112728</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/uc-commission-on-the-future-hears-112728.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Charging a fee to companies that hire university graduates and eliminating student fees were among the ideas the UC Commission on the Future heard at its meeting in Oakland on Nov. 12.
 
Launched in September, the commission's goal is to... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=355262" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:39:50 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Harry Mok, UC Office of the President</author><title>UC searches for interned Japanese-American students to receive honorary degrees</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/uc-searches-for-interned-japanese-112214.aspx?link_page_rss=112214</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/uc-searches-for-interned-japanese-112214.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[University of California campuses are still looking for Japanese-American students who had their studies derailed by being interned during World War II. Ceremonies to award honorary degrees to the former students are set for December and spring... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=355095" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:03:46 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>UCLA experts take lead in regional climate plan</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-experts-take-lead-in-regional-112040.aspx?link_page_rss=112040</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-experts-take-lead-in-regional-112040.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[

The LARC (Los Angeles Regional Collaborative for Climate Action and Sustainability) hopes to transform the Los Angeles region.

In a unique effort to address climate change, experts with UCLA's Institute of the Environment (IOE) have been tapped... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=354940" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:56:08 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alex Rosenberg</author><title>H1N1 vaccine scarce at UC campuses, medical centers</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/h1n1-vaccine-scarce-at-uc-campuses-111988.aspx?link_page_rss=111988</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/h1n1-vaccine-scarce-at-uc-campuses-111988.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The national H1N1 flu vaccine shortage is hitting the University of California, where campuses and medical centers have scant supplies.
 
&quot;The H1N1 vaccine is trickling in at best at the medical centers, and it's almost nonexistent at campuses,&quot;... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=354900" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:34:55 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Kevin Matthews</author><title>Obama committed to working with international institutions, official says</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/obama-willing-to-work-out-issues-111970.aspx?link_page_rss=111970</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/obama-willing-to-work-out-issues-111970.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[When President Barack Obama led a session of the United Nations Security Council last September, one that produced a resolution calling for countries to support a world without nuclear weapons, he became the first U.S. president to ever do so.
 
That... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=354891" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:32:47 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>University of California ranks among best in the world</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/university-of-california-ranks-111965.aspx?link_page_rss=111965</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/university-of-california-ranks-111965.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The 2009 rankings from the Institute of Higher Education at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China place seven University of California campuses among the top 50 universities in the world. The rankings, which include both public and private institutions,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=354606" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Robin Heffler</author><title>UCLA center helps L.A. nonprofits weather recession</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-center-helps-l-a-nonprofits-111963.aspx?link_page_rss=111963</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-center-helps-l-a-nonprofits-111963.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Most Los Angeles-area nonprofit organizations have experienced reductions in funding from government and private foundations, while costs and demands for their services have risen. Yet the nonprofits largely have been able to retain their volunteers,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=354601" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:23:53 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>How 40 years of the Internet changed the world</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/how-40-years-of-the-internet-changed-111878.aspx?link_page_rss=111878</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/how-40-years-of-the-internet-changed-111878.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[

The Internet's 40th anniversary conference had something the 30th lacked: a pop-culture panel. Panelists, from left: John Taylor, bassist in the band Duran Duran; John Perry Barlow, Electronic Frontier Foundation; and from World-of-Warcraft producer... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=354540" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:24:16 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Cynthia Lee</author><title>Researcher offers her hope for release from lifelong pain</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/researcher-offers-her-hope-for-111868.aspx?link_page_rss=111868</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/researcher-offers-her-hope-for-111868.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[For as long as she can remember, Summer Harris has been in pain. Sometimes dull, throbbing pain, but often pain so piercing that she feels &quot;like somebody is stabbing me in the back and legs, my head, my knees.&quot; It can last for hours or linger on for... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=354513" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:49:53 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Claudia Luther</author><title>Navigating UCLA gets easier for students with new Bruin Resource Center</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/navigating-ucla-gets-easier-for-111844.aspx?link_page_rss=111844</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/navigating-ucla-gets-easier-for-111844.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA students who grew up in foster homes, served in the military or are trying to balance studies with parenting may not seem to have much in common, but their personal challenges to completing their degrees may be similar.
 
For example, veterans... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=354490" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:52:11 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Mona Gable</author><title>Book chronicles black life in L.A. over 227 years</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/book-profiles-complexities-of-111513.aspx?link_page_rss=111513</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/book-profiles-complexities-of-111513.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[When he arrived at UCLA in 2001, Darnell Hunt had some pressing questions. What research had been done on the history of the black community in Los Angeles? And how did the community evolve into what it is today?
 


Darnell Hunt, director of... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=354295" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:12:19 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Message on the budget from Chancellor Gene Block</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/message-on-the-budget-from-chancellor-111494.aspx?link_page_rss=111494</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/message-on-the-budget-from-chancellor-111494.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[To the Campus Community:
 
Across campus, faculty, staff and students are experiencing the consequences of an unprecedented reduction in state support to the University of California system. The effects include larger class sizes, reduced... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=354242" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:56:15 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Q&amp;amp;A with Steve Olsen on budget issues</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/_prv-q-a-on-budget-issues-111254.aspx?link_page_rss=111254</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/_prv-q-a-on-budget-issues-111254.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Like most public colleges and universities in California, UCLA is experiencing budget challenges of unprecedented proportions. Here, Steve Olsen, vice chancellor for budget, finance and capital programs, provides answers to some frequently asked questions.
 
 
How... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=352894" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:53:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Review your choices before Open Enrollment</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/review-your-choices-before-open-111446.aspx?link_page_rss=111446</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/review-your-choices-before-open-111446.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[With Open Enrollment beginning on Thursday, Oct. 29, this is the time to start looking over your health and welfare benefit choices for you and your family prior to deciding whether you want to make any changes for 2010.
 
Next year,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=349978" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:22:02 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>Campus representatives exchange views on budget crisis</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/campus-representatives-exchange-111418.aspx?link_page_rss=111418</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/campus-representatives-exchange-111418.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Revised Nov. 9, 2009
 
State politics, individual advocacy, academic excellence, diversity and the bottom-line dollars-and-cents of UC’s budget crisis were among the wide-ranging topics discussed at “Defending the Public University,” a colloquium... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=342450" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:18:29 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Donna Hemmila</author><title>Yudof explains his decision on faculty furloughs to Academic Senate</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/yudof-explains-his-decision-on-111405.aspx?link_page_rss=111405</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/yudof-explains-his-decision-on-111405.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[In a two-hour discussion with members of the Assembly of the Academic Senate On Oct. 14, UC President Mark Yudof traded insights with faculty on a range of issues and topics, including faculty furloughs and a controversial proposal for differential... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=341048" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:48:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Wendy Soderburg</author><title>Retirement benefits will be there, UC task force reassures employees</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/retirement-benefits-will-be-there-111373.aspx?link_page_rss=111373</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/retirement-benefits-will-be-there-111373.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Despite the economic wallop that has hurt many pension plans, including UC's, leaders of a UC task force that's looking into the future of post-employment benefits reassured staff and faculty who are active members of the University of California... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=339687" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:30:46 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>Anatomy of a crisis</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/anatomy-of-a-crisis-111367.aspx?link_page_rss=111367</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/anatomy-of-a-crisis-111367.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[With the welcome announcement that the student who was seriously injured on Oct. 8 in a stabbing attack in Young Hall is out of intensive care and in good condition at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, one can almost hear a collective sigh of relief... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=339777" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:13:33 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Wendy Soderburg</author><title>Belmont Village offers housing option for retired staff, faculty</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/belmont-village-offers-housing-111262.aspx?link_page_rss=111262</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/belmont-village-offers-housing-111262.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Walk into the main lobby of the Belmont Village Senior Living facility in Westwood, and you might swear you were in the lobby of a fine hotel. A striking glass birdcage, complete with two live finches, is the first thing that catches your eye as you... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=334203" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:47:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Kevin Matthews</author><title>Washington's mixed signals confuse Venezuelan diplomat</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/venezuelan-ambassador-confused-111261.aspx?link_page_rss=111261</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/venezuelan-ambassador-confused-111261.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Mixed signals from Washington have left Bernardo &Aacute;lvarez Herrera, the ambassador from Venezuela, uncertain about where relations between Latin America and the United States are heading under the Obama administration.
 
But he thinks he'll... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=334137" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:27:59 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Minne Ho</author><title>Public Affairs opens forum on critical issues in nation's capital</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/public-affairs-opens-forum-on-111125.aspx?link_page_rss=111125</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/public-affairs-opens-forum-on-111125.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC &mdash; The School of Public Affairs launched Wednesday, Oct. 7, the first in a series of public discussions on critical national issues with an inaugural forum addressing the record incarceration rates across the U.S. and the boom in... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=321225" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:27:44 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>UC Office of the President</author><title>More union employees to participate in UC furloughs</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/more-union-employees-to-participate-102708.aspx?link_page_rss=102708</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/more-union-employees-to-participate-102708.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[University of California professional librarians represented by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) will begin participating in the university’s furlough-salary reduction program this month, UC officials announced today (Oct. 2).
 
Under... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=306636" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:28:23 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Kevin Matthews</author><title>Former Pakistani PM urges open talks in Afghanistan</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/former-pakistani-pm-urges-open-102706.aspx?link_page_rss=102706</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/former-pakistani-pm-urges-open-102706.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[As the Obama administration decides whether to send thousands of additional U.S. troops into Afghanistan, a former Pakistani prime minister told more than 200 people at the James West Alumni Center that the conflict cannot be ended by a military... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=306595" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:49:50 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>New competition pool a win for athletes, rec swimmers</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/new-competition-pool-a-win-for-102605.aspx?link_page_rss=102605</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/new-competition-pool-a-win-for-102605.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[


A view of the Spieker Aquatics Center pool and diving tower, amidst the pine trees.

UCLA's newest sports facility &ndash; a sparkling Olympic-length, diving-depth competition pool &ndash; opened Saturday, Sept. 26, on the Hill, boasting a sky-scraping... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=301944" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:07:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Lawrence H. Pitts</author><title>UC provost's statement on Sept. 24 activities</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/provost-s-statement-on-sept-24-102488.aspx?link_page_rss=102488</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/provost-s-statement-on-sept-24-102488.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Statement by Lawrence H. Pitts
Interim Provost and Executive Vice President for  Academic Affairs
University of  California, Office of the  President
Thursday, September 24,  2009
 
Our faculty, students and staff have a right to be upset... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=288875" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:14:32 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>Preparing for H1N1 flu</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/preparing-for-swine-flu-102442.aspx?link_page_rss=102442</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/preparing-for-swine-flu-102442.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
From the flu salute and the Obama fist-bump to hand hygiene and &quot;respiratory etiquette,&quot; a cultural change is taking place on campus as preparations to prevent H1N1 influenza go into high gear at UCLA.
 
These are the buzz words of flu season... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=286786" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:14:01 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Cyndy Lee</author><title>Budget plan would bring UC stability, Yudof says</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/budget-plan-would-bring-uc-stability-102418.aspx?link_page_rss=102418</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/budget-plan-would-bring-uc-stability-102418.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The state has been an unreliable partner of the University of California for at least 20 years, said UC President Mark Yudof. It’s time that the system accepts that fact and adopts a realistic two-year budget plan that would rely on student fee increases... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=284077" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:49:53 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Senate leaders address potential faculty walkout</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/academic-senate-leaders-address-102404.aspx?link_page_rss=102404</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/academic-senate-leaders-address-102404.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Leaders of the UCLA Academic Senate sent this letter to faculty on Monday, Sept. 21, about a walkout proposed for Sept. 24, the first day of classes at UCLA.  
 
 
Dear Colleagues,
 
As you may know, a small group... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=283927" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:22:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>Army of Bruin volunteers clean up city</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/army-of-frosh-volunteers-clean-102342.aspx?link_page_rss=102342</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/army-of-frosh-volunteers-clean-102342.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[


UCLA volunteers fill in a &quot;Where the Wild Things Are&quot; mural at Kester Elementary School.

&quot;I haven't gotten up this early all summer,&quot; yawned Monique Ho, a new freshman in the middle of her orientation week at UCLA. On her schedule Sept. 22:... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=282164" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:03:13 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>Parents are Bruins too</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/bruin-parents-families-102085.aspx?link_page_rss=102085</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/bruin-parents-families-102085.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[

 
A family enjoys a special moment during move-in weekend last year.Sending a child off to college doesn’t make a mother or father any less concerned as a parent. They’ll want to know that their son or daughter is eating healthily, getting along... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=268029" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:20:47 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>UC Office of the President</author><title>Regents face hard choices in view of dismal fiscal outlook</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/regents-face-difficult-choices-102081.aspx?link_page_rss=102081</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/regents-face-difficult-choices-102081.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The University of California Board of Regents received a briefing Wednesday, Sept. 16, that outlined the severe financial challenges facing the university through 2010-11, along with options and recommendations to shore up UC's long-term finances.
 
Patrick... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=267657" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:06:47 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Cynthia Lee</author><title>Nearly 6,000 to answer call to service on Volunteer Day</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/nearly-6-000-mobilized-to-serve-102044.aspx?link_page_rss=102044</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/nearly-6-000-mobilized-to-serve-102044.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
 
David Bloome, coordinator of Volunteer Day, greets a group of volunteer task captains who reported for training at Nora Sterry Elementary School in West Los Angeles. 
 
The very first lesson thousands of new UCLA students will learn at the... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=265270" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:53:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Cynthia Lee</author><title>L.A. City Council applauds UCLA's efforts to serve entire city</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/l-a-city-council-applauds-efforts-102043.aspx?link_page_rss=102043</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/l-a-city-council-applauds-efforts-102043.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
 
Los Angeles City Council member Paul Koretz (center)presents a proclamation recognizing the new UCLA Volunteer Center and designating Sept. 22 as UCLA Volunteer Day to Antoinette Mongelli, executive director of the UCLA Volunteer Center, and David... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=265114" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:21:07 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Mona Gable</author><title>His tribute to pioneers of African American film</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/he-brings-to-screen-legacy-of-101925.aspx?link_page_rss=101925</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/he-brings-to-screen-legacy-of-101925.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Oscar MicheauxHe inspired Spike Lee to make his first film. But when Oscar Micheaux died in 1951, the enterprising black filmmaker was virtually unknown. 

“He died a pauper,” said Jan-Christopher Horak, director of the UCLA Film &amp; Television... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=252491" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:36:26 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>Amputee triathlete's Cinderella story</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/amputee-triathlete-101903.aspx?link_page_rss=101903</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/amputee-triathlete-101903.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA student Scout Bassett spent her childhood scrubbing floors in a Chinese orphanage wearing a homemade prosthetic leg kept on with belts and masking tape. &quot;Then a miracle happened,&quot; she says. Now, she's a triathlete. Photos by Alison Hewitt.UCLA junior... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=251988" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:50:58 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Harry Mok</author><title>UC Commission on the Future seeks new vision</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/uc-commissio-on-the-future-seeks-101839.aspx?link_page_rss=101839</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/uc-commissio-on-the-future-seeks-101839.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Regent Chairman Russell Gould at the first meeting of the UC Commission on the Future called on members to do &quot;nothing short of reimagining&quot; the University of California. 
 
UC President Mark Yudof (left) and Regent Chairman Russell Gould are co-chairs... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=247823" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 22:50:50 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>UCLA Community School opens</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/first-day-at-ucla-community-school-101836.aspx?link_page_rss=101836</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/first-day-at-ucla-community-school-101836.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The first day of school today (Sept. 9) at campuses throughout Los Angeles was a very special beginning for the UCLA Community School, which welcomed 360 students and their parents to the school's grand opening. Representatives from UCLA and the L.A.... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=247816" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 22:03:08 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>UC Office of the President</author><title>Furlough program begins across UC</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/furlough-program-begins-across-101174.aspx?link_page_rss=101174</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/furlough-program-begins-across-101174.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The University of California began its systemwide furlough program this week, with most UC employees sharing the pain of pay cuts to help offset the loss of more than a billion dollars in state support. 

The furlough plan, formulated on the basis of... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=238458" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:04:57 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Cynthia Lee</author><title>Opening of new school a milestone for campus outreach</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/opening-of-new-school-a-turning-101103.aspx?link_page_rss=101103</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/opening-of-new-school-a-turning-101103.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[In the room where a lively meet-and-greet is happening on the second floor of the Graduate School of Education &amp; Information Studies (GSE&amp;IS) building, a buzz of excitement and anticipation rises from the mingling crowd. Men and women with broad... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=237019" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:31:55 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>Campus welcomes new police chief</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/campus-welcomes-new-police-chief-101101.aspx?link_page_rss=101101</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/campus-welcomes-new-police-chief-101101.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The symmetry was perfect: James Herren joined the Torrance Police Department as a rookie in 1974 and worked all the way up the ranks to become chief two decades later. In 2006, with strong leaders ready to take the reins and retirement benefits as good... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=236972" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:37:07 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Cynthia Lee</author><title>Mount Wilson complex believed safe from fires</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/mount-wilson-believed-safe-from-101050.aspx?link_page_rss=101050</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/mount-wilson-believed-safe-from-101050.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The Station wildfire that had threatened to reach the Mount Wilson Observatory site where UCLA astronomers maintain a 150-foot solar tower has been turned away by backfires and other fire suppression measures, faculty members said today (Sept. 2). 


... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=235474" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:03:04 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>President Yudof: UC campuses dominate top 10 in Washington Monthly's rankings</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/president-yudof-uc-campuses-dominate-101027.aspx?link_page_rss=101027</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/president-yudof-uc-campuses-dominate-101027.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[An Open Letter From President Mark G. Yudof: 

This is a proud day for the University of California. This morning, UC campuses performed a full sweep, placing first, second and third in Washington Monthly’s annual college rankings. Six of our campuses... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=235467" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:20:53 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>Westwood schools welcome children of UCLA faculty and staff</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/quality-schooling-for-faculty-100637.aspx?link_page_rss=100637</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/quality-schooling-for-faculty-100637.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[For UCLA faculty and staff parents of 109 school-age children, September will be an auspicious month: For the first time, their students will attend schools near Westwood, regardless of where the families actually reside. 


 
A winning team at... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=233935" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:58:41 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Any Evangelista</author><title>UC makes drought crisis one of its top research priority</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/uc-makes-drought-crisis-one-of-100628.aspx?link_page_rss=100628</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/uc-makes-drought-crisis-one-of-100628.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Various research initiatives, including one at UCLA, are zeroing in on California's three-year drought to help the state find ways to change the way we use our scarce water supply.
 
To read more details on how researchers throughout the UC system... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=232407" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:48:13 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Cyndy Lee</author><title>Fire threatens UCLA solar tower at Mt. Wilson</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/fire-threatens-ucla-solar-tower-100573.aspx?link_page_rss=100573</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/fire-threatens-ucla-solar-tower-100573.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA astronomers are on fire watch today (August 31), hoping that firefighters can keep a huge wildfire that has already scorched more than 100,000 acres from destroying a 150-foot solar tower and computer equipment used by the scientists... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=232376" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:56:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>UC reaches agreement with police union</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/uc-reaches-agreement-with-police-100520.aspx?link_page_rss=100520</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/uc-reaches-agreement-with-police-100520.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Following several months of talks, the University of California on Thursday, August 27, announced it has reached an agreement with the Federated University Police Officers Association union on a new employment contract for UC's more than 250... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=228013" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:35:07 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Cynthia Lee</author><title>Faculty get answers on furloughs, other consequences of budget</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/faculty-get-answers-on-furloughs-100496.aspx?link_page_rss=100496</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/faculty-get-answers-on-furloughs-100496.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Faculty with questions about furlough days and broader issues on the budget got some answers at a town hall meeting Wednesday, August 26, from UCLA Academic Senate Chair Michael Goldstein and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Scott Waugh. About 200... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=226641" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:45:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Retired Torrance police chief chosen to head UCLA Police Department</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/retired-torrance-police-chief-100322.aspx?link_page_rss=100322</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/retired-torrance-police-chief-100322.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA Office of the Administrative Vice Chancellor
August 26, 2009



DEANS, DIRECTORS, DEPARTMENT CHAIRS, AND ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS 

Re: New Police Chief


As you may be aware, Chief Karl Ross retired at the end of June 2009. My sincere thanks... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=225182" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:57:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Cynthia Lee</author><title>Stimulus money puts students at forefront of research</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/stimulus-money-puts-students-at-100074.aspx?link_page_rss=100074</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/stimulus-money-puts-students-at-100074.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The beach was where UCLA nursing student Crystal deGuzman thought she was headed this summer until stimulus money intervened. 

She never envisioned that these much-heralded funds from Washington, D.C., would give her the chance to learn the intricacies... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=221863" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:00:16 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Matthew Chin</author><title>Saudi Arabia's science agency to fund UCLA research in nanoelectronics, clean energy</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/saudi-arabia-s-science-agency-100013.aspx?link_page_rss=100013</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/saudi-arabia-s-science-agency-100013.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Prince Turki Ibn Saud Ibn Mohammad Al-Saud (center) and Dean Vijay K. Dhir (right) of UCLA Engineering sign documents as Professor Kang L. Wang looks on.
King Abdulaziz City for Science &amp; Technology (KACST) in Saudi Arabia and UCLA, represented... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=217441" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:50:52 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>Environmental centers work together on climate change</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/environmental-centers-work-together-99876.aspx?link_page_rss=99876</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/environmental-centers-work-together-99876.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[From Engineering to Public Affairs, from the School of Law to Arts and Architecture, schools from across the UCLA campus have sprouted centers that examine climate change from every angle, creating a wealth of specialized, in-depth research. But sometimes,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=215844" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:39:42 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Elizabeth Kivowitz Boatright-Simon</author><title>UCLA places among top 10 greenest campuses</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-places-among-top-10-greenest-99867.aspx?link_page_rss=99867</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-places-among-top-10-greenest-99867.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA has scored ninth in a top-20 ranking of the &quot;coolest&quot; schools in the nation environmentally, according to an article in Sierra Magazine, a publication of the Sierra Club, the nation's oldest and largest grassroots environmental group. And that matters... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=215724" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:09:49 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>Tea-time at the Fowler</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/tea-time-at-the-fowler-99847.aspx?link_page_rss=99847</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/tea-time-at-the-fowler-99847.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Curator Beatrice Hohenegger leads guests on a tour of the tea exhibit, which opens with this mural depicting different steps of the tea-making process.

Tea has been brewing for millennia. But the first teapots
didn't whistle until the 1500s.





Tidbits... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=214287" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:20:15 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>UC Office of the President</author><title>UC reports progress in making compensation process more transparent, accountable</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/uc-reports-progress-in-making-98607.aspx?link_page_rss=98607</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/uc-reports-progress-in-making-98607.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[University of California officials outlined for an independent task force Wednesday, Aug. 13, improvements made in the past three years to bring more transparency and accountability to the process governing how compensation levels for faculty and... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=206462" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:35:45 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>Power misers scour campus for ways to save energy</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/power-misers-scour-campus-for-98589.aspx?link_page_rss=98589</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/power-misers-scour-campus-for-98589.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Powering UCLA costs more than $50 million each year, so it's
no wonder that David Johnson, director of Energy Services and Utilities, is
always looking for ways to save energy.





That's why his energy manager, Robert Striff, is going from
building... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=205008" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:32:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Emilia Barrosse</author><title>Faculty help disabled vets become successful entrepreneurs</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/faculty-help-disabled-vets-become-98576.aspx?link_page_rss=98576</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/faculty-help-disabled-vets-become-98576.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[In the vernacular of the Anderson School of Management, they are vetrepreneurs, determined people like Joshua Evans, a former Marine Corps aviator and air traffic controller who came back from Afghanistan and Iraq with a hearing loss and a need to make... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=204958" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:13:31 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Tim Higgins and Linda Samuels</author><title>Competition asks: Who rules the sewers?</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/competition-asks-who-rules-the-98486.aspx?link_page_rss=98486</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/competition-asks-who-rules-the-98486.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Imagine a parking garage that also happens to be an urban farm, climbing wall and drive-thru lending library. 

Or, how about taking an existing highway or rail system and devising a way to actually distribute the energy generated – and now wasted –... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=203408" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:13:05 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Melanie Bertrand</author><title>Budget cuts affect schools differently, youths find</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/budget-cuts-affect-schools-differently-98423.aspx?link_page_rss=98423</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/budget-cuts-affect-schools-differently-98423.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[California’s education funding has been cut by $17 billion in the last two budget deals, and schools are suffering. But some students are hurting more than others, according to a group of high school student researchers who presented their findings at... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=203406" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:30:15 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin and Claudia Luther</author><title>Entertainment industry grant supports first Volunteer Day</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/volunteer-day-receives-250-000-97840.aspx?link_page_rss=97840</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/volunteer-day-receives-250-000-97840.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA has received a $250,000 grant from the Entertainment Industry Foundation, a leading charitable organization of the entertainment industry, to support UCLA’s inaugural Volunteer Day on Sept. 22. 

On that day, UCLA will dispatch thousands of new... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=195660" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:50:31 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>New program to create clean-tech leaders wins NSF stimulus funding</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/new-program-to-create-clean-tech-97803.aspx?link_page_rss=97803</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/new-program-to-create-clean-tech-97803.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[As the country presses forward in developing green energy and Los Angeles strives to become a hub of clean technology, UCLA Associate Professor Diana Huffaker noticed there was one thing still missing: a program to train the future leaders of environmental... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=193760" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:55:01 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Phil Hampton</author><title>Fundraising closes year strong, focuses on campus priorities</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/fundraising-closes-year-strong-97682.aspx?link_page_rss=97682</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/fundraising-closes-year-strong-97682.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Photo by Stephanie Diani.
While the nation’s severe economic downturn dampened gifts and pledges in the year ending June 30, UCLA officials said donors focused their philanthropy in areas identified as campus priorities. 

Seventeen percent of the... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=192056" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:00:46 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>Bruins in Bardland: blogging abroad</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/bruins-in-bardland-blogging-abroad-97662.aspx?link_page_rss=97662</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/bruins-in-bardland-blogging-abroad-97662.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The sites of London at night: The London Eye Ferris wheel, Parliament, and Big Ben.
It's an English major's dream: travel to England and fulfill class requirements by watching top British stage actors and movie stars perform Shakespeare's plays. 

About... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=190400" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:09:42 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Wendy Soderburg</author><title>Athlete returns for the kids</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/athlete-returns-for-the-kids-97625.aspx?link_page_rss=97625</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/athlete-returns-for-the-kids-97625.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[“Hi! How are you doing?” 
 
The Lakers' Jordan Farmar comes back to campus to bring a little happiness to the lives of sick young people at Mattel Children's Hospital.

When professional basketball player Jordan Farmar dropped into the rooms of pediatric... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=190374" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:00:53 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>College lecturers get one-year advance notice of possible layoffs</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/college-lecturers-get-one-year-97356.aspx?link_page_rss=97356</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/college-lecturers-get-one-year-97356.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[A letter notifying 67 lecturers in the College of Letters and Science that they may be laid off a year from now was sent Wednesday, July 29, by the deans of the divisions of Physical Sciences, the Social Sciences and the Humanities. 

Notices went out... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=180701" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>New dean of Division of Physical Sciences is selected</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/new-dean-of-division-of-physical-97252.aspx?link_page_rss=97252</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/new-dean-of-division-of-physical-97252.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
UCLA Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost



Administrative Officers, Deans, Department Chairs, Directors, Vice Chancellors, and Faculty and Staff in the Division of Physical Sciences


Dear Colleagues:

I am pleased to announce... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=180696" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:09:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>10 questions for James Gibson</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/10-questions-for-james-gibson-97152.aspx?link_page_rss=97152</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/10-questions-for-james-gibson-97152.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
 
James Gibson (left), director of the Office of Environmental Health and Safety, with Colin Dimock, manager of the Research Safety Division. Photo by Rich Schmitt.Following the tragic death of staff research associate Sheharbano (Sheri) Sangji, 23,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=178937" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:52:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Claudia Luther</author><title>Campus casts wider safety net for depressed students</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/campus-casts-wider-safety-net-97124.aspx?link_page_rss=97124</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/campus-casts-wider-safety-net-97124.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[For the past year, UCLA has taken part in a nationwide program at 20 colleges and universities to expand the mission of their student health services centers to include screening students for signs of depression. 

UCLA was the only university in California... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=177231" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:43:02 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Letter from Chancellor Block: budget update and salary reduction/furlough plan</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/letter-from-chancellor-block-budget-97118.aspx?link_page_rss=97118</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/letter-from-chancellor-block-budget-97118.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
UCLA Office of the Chancellor 


To: Faculty and Staff

Dear Colleagues: 

As I write this, the California state budget has finally been passed, but it makes no change in our fiscal situation or our plans to address the shortfall. 

I’m sure many... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=177213" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:54:49 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>Toy stories</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/toy-stories-97020.aspx?link_page_rss=97020</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/toy-stories-97020.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Associate Professor Dan Froot, sitting, with puppeteer Dan Hurlin, in front of one of the toy theater stages. Photo by Rachel Benioff.Serving up hot meals in homeless shelter food lines and &quot;pulling up a curb&quot; to sit and chat with diners, Associate... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=177195" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:18:25 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Kevin Matthews</author><title>Droughts of past yield lessons for a warming world</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/droughts-of-past-yield-lessons-96985.aspx?link_page_rss=96985</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/droughts-of-past-yield-lessons-96985.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Glen MacDonald, the new director of the UCLA Institute of the Environment (IoE), has spent much of the last year conducting research in the subtropical areas of the Northern Hemisphere that are particularly prone to drought, both recently and in the... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=171096" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:40:50 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Cynthia Lee and Claudia Luther</author><title>UCLA notifies 730 individuals about possible contact with student with TB</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-notifies-730-individuals-96385.aspx?link_page_rss=96385</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-notifies-730-individuals-96385.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The university is notifying approximately 730 students, staff and faculty that they need to be tested for tuberculosis because they may have come in contact with a UCLA student who was recently hospitalized with infectious TB. 

Susan Quillan, director... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=166674" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:57:28 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Regents endorse plan for furloughs</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/regents-endorse-plan-for-furloughs-96300.aspx?link_page_rss=96300</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/regents-endorse-plan-for-furloughs-96300.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The UC Board of Regents endorsed a plan July 16 proposed by UC President Mark G. Yudof to enact systemwide furloughs as one of a set of actions to offset an anticipated $813 million reduction in support from the state general fund. The board approved... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=159886" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:17:56 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Yudof letter updates UC on approval of furlough plan</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/yudof-letter-updates-uc-on-approval-96287.aspx?link_page_rss=96287</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/yudof-letter-updates-uc-on-approval-96287.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UC President Mark G. Yudof sent this letter to the UC community on July 16 in the wake of the UC Regents' approval of his furlough plan. 
 
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY 

Dear Colleagues: 

I write to update you on The Regents' actions this... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=159881" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:38:07 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>Pauley financing approved</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/pauley-financing-approved-96274.aspx?link_page_rss=96274</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/pauley-financing-approved-96274.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The UC regents unanimously approved a financing plan and environmental review Thursday, July 16, for the renovation of Pauley Pavilion, after Chancellor Gene Block reassured them that the money for the arena could not legally be used to solve the campus'... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=159887" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:28:17 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Cynthia Lee</author><title>Block describes impact of painful cuts on campus</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/block-describes-impact-of-painful-96270.aspx?link_page_rss=96270</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/block-describes-impact-of-painful-96270.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Photo by Stephanie Diani.With UCLA facing a shortfall of approximately $131 million for 2009-10, students, faculty and staff will unfortunately feel the pain of cutbacks in many ways, Chancellor Gene Block told the UC regents Wednesday, July 15, at... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=159847" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:30:43 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>First UC-wide accountability report is issued</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/first-uc-wide-accountability-report-96168.aspx?link_page_rss=96168</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/first-uc-wide-accountability-report-96168.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UC President Mark G. Yudof has issued the first comprehensive assessment of the UC system's progress in meeting key teaching, research and public service goals. Available online at here, the report is expected to be updated and published annually. 

The... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=158403" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:02:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Sean Brenner</author><title>Supplements or real food: Which works best to fight effects of aging?</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/supplements-or-real-food-which-96088.aspx?link_page_rss=96088</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/supplements-or-real-food-which-96088.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Americans spend billions of dollars each year on nutritional supplements in an effort to stave off the effects of aging. Sally Frautschy, for one, believes we may be wasting our money. 

There’s a better bet for anti-aging nutrition, says the professor... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=158336" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:32:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>UC president proposes plan to address fiscal crisis</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/uc-president-proposes-plan-to-95785.aspx?link_page_rss=95785</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/uc-president-proposes-plan-to-95785.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
University of California President Mark Yudof today (July 10) released details of a proposed plan to offset an anticipated $813 million reduction in support from the state General Fund. It will be presented next Wednesday (July 15) to the Board of... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=156832" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:52:35 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Cynthia Lee</author><title>UCLA researchers bring in record $966 million in contract and grant awards</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-researchers-break-record-95636.aspx?link_page_rss=95636</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-researchers-break-record-95636.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Energized by new funding opportunities that have opened up for basic and applied research, UCLA scientists had a record-breaking year in 2008-09 and reaped a total of $966.3 million in grant and contract awards. That's $50 million more than the previous... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=156831" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:36:20 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>UC scientists warn state leaders of consequences of budget cuts</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/uc-scientists-warn-state-leaders-95589.aspx?link_page_rss=95589</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/uc-scientists-warn-state-leaders-95589.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[More than 300 leading UC scientists — including nearly three dozen from UCLA — sent a letter to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger warning him that proposed budget cuts to UC would impede scientific and technological progress, irreversibly damage the university... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=156779" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:51:56 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Cynthia Lee and Alison Hewitt</author><title>Majority of UCLA faculty, staff prefer furlough option</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/majority-of-ucla-faculty-staff-95383.aspx?link_page_rss=95383</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/majority-of-ucla-faculty-staff-95383.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Of the three proposed options for an 8 percent reduction in compensation, UCLA faculty and staff who sent in their comments to the UCLA Academic Senate and Campus Human Resources showed a strong preference for a furlough over salary cuts or a blend of... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=156750" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:44:59 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>Green tech could save UCLA $2.5 million</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/green-tech-could-save-ucla-2-5-95130.aspx?link_page_rss=95130</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/green-tech-could-save-ucla-2-5-95130.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[As the recession and state budget crisis force UCLA to look high and low to save money, a group of techies think they have found a way for the university to save about $2.5 million by thinking greener when it comes to office technology.

Make that several... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=156733" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:13:44 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Provost Scott Waugh outlines next budget steps for UCLA</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/provost-scott-waugh-outlines-next-95270.aspx?link_page_rss=95270</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/provost-scott-waugh-outlines-next-95270.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Scott Waugh sent this letter addressing the budget crisis on July 2.
 
Dear Colleagues:

As a result of the dramatic fall in state funding for the University of California, we must restructure UCLA’s academic... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=156687" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:50:55 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>Staff leap into action as Jackson creates campus' biggest media surge in memory</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-leap-into-action-as-jackson-95128.aspx?link_page_rss=95128</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/staff-leap-into-action-as-jackson-95128.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[When Michael Jackson's ambulance arrived at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center on Thursday, June 25, the star was soon followed by hordes of paparazzi, TV reporters, fans and more. The crowd only grew from there. 


 
News crews swarmed outside the... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=156410" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:44:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Chancellor Gene Block</author><title>Chancellor Block addresses scope of budget crisis, plans and priorities</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/budget-block-letter-95129.aspx?link_page_rss=95129</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/budget-block-letter-95129.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA Chancellor Gene Block sent this letter to the campus community on June 30.
 
Dear Colleagues,
I know that all of you have been following the increasingly complex and worsening financial situation facing California and its impact on present... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=155833" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:10:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Meg Sullivan</author><title>Egyptologist pulls together threads woven through ancient civilizations</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/egyptologist-pulls-together-threads-95084.aspx?link_page_rss=95084</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/egyptologist-pulls-together-threads-95084.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[In 2560 BC, the ancient Egyptians built the Giza Pyramid. Nearly 2,700 years later and some 7,700 miles away, the Aztecs erected a similarly imposing pyramid. 

A coincidence? Or the result of secret contact between two disparate cultures? Evidence,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=155492" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:35:49 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>UCLA leaders to ask Yudof to consider changes to pay-cut options</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/campus-leaders-to-ask-yudof-to-94874.aspx?link_page_rss=94874</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/campus-leaders-to-ask-yudof-to-94874.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[An estimated 2,500 UCLA employees gathered in Pauley Pavilion on June 24 for a Q&amp;A about a proposed UC-wide pay cut/furlough plan, where Chancellor Gene Block and other campus officials said they are asking UC's Office of the President (UCOP) to... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=155310" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:29:25 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Budget Town Hall transcript</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/read-a-transcript-of-the-budget-94900.aspx?link_page_rss=94900</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/read-a-transcript-of-the-budget-94900.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Staff Assembly sponsored a Budget Town Hall on June 24 at Pauley Pavilion. Making remarks and responding to questions were Chancellor Gene Block, Vice Chancellor Steve Olsen, and Associate Vice Chancellor Lubbe Levin. Following is a transcript.... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=155342" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:17:16 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>UCLA's biggest summer session gives departments a cash boost</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/uclas-biggest-summer-session-94899.aspx?link_page_rss=94899</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/uclas-biggest-summer-session-94899.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
 
Studying keeps happening during the summer at UCLA. Photo by Stephanie Diani.While recession woes force some California colleges to cut back on summer classes — Cal Poly Pomona even canceled summer session altogether — UCLA is looking ahead to its... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=155356" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:12:08 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>Teaching literacy in the city benefits learners, tutors</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/teaching-literacy-in-the-city-94676.aspx?link_page_rss=94676</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/teaching-literacy-in-the-city-94676.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The mostly immigrant adults attending Centro Latino for Literacy in downtown Los Angeles usually speak only Spanish. They come to learn to read and write their language, motivated by a panoply of hard-luck tales that they share with the UCLA interns... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=155252" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:54:52 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alison Hewitt</author><title>Building's green makeover wins high score UC-wide</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/building-s-green-makeover-wins-94602.aspx?link_page_rss=94602</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/building-s-green-makeover-wins-94602.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Behind-the-scenes changes are making a big difference in UCLA's Public Affairs Building. By finding out when everyone leaves the building for the day, Facilities Management has calculated down to the minute when they can turn off air-conditioning or... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=155214" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:03:13 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Options for systemwide salary reductions, furloughs</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/options-for-systemwide-salary-94588.aspx?link_page_rss=94588</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/options-for-systemwide-salary-94588.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[To deal with unprecedented budget cuts, UC President Mark G. Yudof outlines three optional plans for salary reductions and/or furloughs that are under study.
 
The Office of the President (OP) wants employees' feedback on these plans. To do that,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=155194" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:31:42 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Emilia Barrosse</author><title>Two make priceless gift to strangers, setting off two kidney transplant chains</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/two-make-priceless-gift-of-organ-94355.aspx?link_page_rss=94355</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/two-make-priceless-gift-of-organ-94355.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[ 
How much can the power of love accomplish? Just ask Harry Damon or Nicole Lanstrum. 
Damon is a Michigan firefighter who lost his 24-year-old son in a tragic snowmobile accident, and Lanstrum is an Air Force technical sergeant from Iowa who specializes... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=155089" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:20:46 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Cynthia Lee</author><title>Worsening state budget crisis prompts campus leaders' call to action</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/worsening-state-budget-crisis-94283.aspx?link_page_rss=94283</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/worsening-state-budget-crisis-94283.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Although the State Legislature is still at odds over how to slash the state budget to deal with a $24 billion deficit, it is very likely that the governor's proposed $619 million cut to UC's budget for 2009-10 will stand, UCLA's budget chief told the... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=155002" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:04:20 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Graduation celebrations</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/graduation-celebrations-94265.aspx?link_page_rss=94265</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/graduation-celebrations-94265.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
 
Chancellor Gene Block spoke to graduates of the College of Letters and Science. Photo by Don Liebig.
 
Celebrations were in full swing this past weekend for more than 10,000 graduates receiving bachelor's, master's, doctoral and professional... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=154979" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:34:10 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>