<?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/voices-rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut</link><language>en-us</language><pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 23:23:10 GMT</pubDate><title>Voices</title><description /><copyright>UCLA Today</copyright><generator>iPressroom.com</generator><item><author>Kelsey Sharpe</author><title>Verbatim — Charles Dickens, Cinco de Mayo and the L.A. riots</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-charles-dickens-cinco-233880.aspx?link_page_rss=233880</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-charles-dickens-cinco-233880.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA staff and faculty members are quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent selection.
 
&quot;Why would you want to change someone's sexual orientation? The only answer is that you view it with... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692784" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 23:23:10 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Kelsey Sharpe</author><title>Verbatim — gangs, feeding-tube brides and big brother</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-gangs-big-brother-and-232786.aspx?link_page_rss=232786</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-gangs-big-brother-and-232786.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA staff and faculty members are quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent selection.
  
&quot;I never showed up completely alone … You can't just show up and say, 'Hey, I'm here to study... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692057" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 23:36:49 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Marjorie Faulstich Orellana</author><title>A lesson in adult education</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/a-lesson-in-adult-education-232635.aspx?link_page_rss=232635</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/a-lesson-in-adult-education-232635.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Marjorie Faulstich Orellana is a professor of education in the Urban Schooling Division of UCLA's Graduate School of Education &amp; Information Studies. This op-ed originally appeared on April 24 in the Huffington... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=691824" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:31:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Douglas Kellner</author><title>School shootings and crises of masculinity</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/school-shootings-and-crises-of-232632.aspx?link_page_rss=232632</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/school-shootings-and-crises-of-232632.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Douglas Kellner is a media and cultural critic who holds the George F. Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Education at UCLA's Graduate School of Education &amp; Information Studies. He's the author of numerous books,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=691822" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:21:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Mark Kleiman, Jonathan Caulkins and Angela Hawken</author><title>Rethinking the war on drugs</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/rethinking-the-war-on-drugs-232476.aspx?link_page_rss=232476</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/rethinking-the-war-on-drugs-232476.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Mark Kleiman is professor of public policy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. Jonathan Caulkins is the Stever Professor of Operations Research and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. And Angela Hawken is associate professor of... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=690957" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:04:14 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Ethan Elkind</author><title>Could self-driving cars help the environment?</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/could-self-driving-cars-help-the-232469.aspx?link_page_rss=232469</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/could-self-driving-cars-help-the-232469.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA Prof Ethan Elkind considers how the cars of the future could reduce greenhouse gases by driving more efficiently, but also how they have the potential to do the opposite. <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=690955" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:09:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Donald Shoup</author><title>Less parking a win-win scenario for a downtown L.A. stadium</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/less-parking-a-win-win-scenario-232451.aspx?link_page_rss=232451</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/less-parking-a-win-win-scenario-232451.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA Prof Donald Shoup argues that stadium developer AEG should provide ticket holders incentives to use public transit by building less parking and using the savings to subsidize transit. <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=690942" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:04:26 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Laura Abrams and Viet Nguyen</author><title>Are counties prepared to handle the most serious youth offenders?</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/are-counties-prepared-to-handle-232265.aspx?link_page_rss=232265</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/are-counties-prepared-to-handle-232265.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Laura Abrams is an associate professor in the Department of Social Welfare in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and the principal investigator and research director for the UCLA Juvenile Justice Reentry Project. Viet Nguyen is an... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=690840" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:35:49 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Razmig Sarkissian</author><title>Verbatim — life in the big city, marijuana medicine and more</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-life-in-the-big-city-232258.aspx?link_page_rss=232258</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-life-in-the-big-city-232258.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[


UCLA staff and faculty members are quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent selection.
 
&quot;Increasingly, Angelenos are rediscovering the lost vitality of their fabled streets — not to... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=690859" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:01:37 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Chancellor Gene Block</author><title>Public higher education: Too big — and far too important — to fail</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/public-higher-education-too-big-232168.aspx?link_page_rss=232168</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/public-higher-education-too-big-232168.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[This op-ed by UCLA Chancellor Gene Block appeared originally in the Huffington Post on April 17, 2012.
 
President Obama recently called on the nation's governors to invest more in education, including public higher education. &quot;Countries that... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=690781" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:43:26 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Julie Flapan</author><title>Redshirting: Is this a path to success in kindergarten?</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/reshirting-is-this-a-way-of-succeeding-232104.aspx?link_page_rss=232104</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/reshirting-is-this-a-way-of-succeeding-232104.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Julie Flapan is a researcher and director of civic engagement for UCLA's Institute for Democracy, Education and Access. She expects to enroll her son in kindergarten this fall. This op-ed ran originally in the April 15, 2012, edition of the... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=690745" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:59:25 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>David Shulman</author><title>What Obama's, Ryan's tax plans are really about</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/what-obama-s-ryan-s-tax-plans-232098.aspx?link_page_rss=232098</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/what-obama-s-ryan-s-tax-plans-232098.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[David Shulman is senior economist with the UCLA Anderson Forecast at the Anderson School of Management, and a retired Wall Street executive. This op-ed originally appeared on April 12 in U.S. News &amp; World Report.
 

In order to... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=690744" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:08:05 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Aslı Ü. Bâli and Aziz F. Rana</author><title>To stop the killing, deal with Assad</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/to-stop-the-killing-deal-with-231971.aspx?link_page_rss=231971</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/to-stop-the-killing-deal-with-231971.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Asli &Uuml;. B&acirc;li (left) is an acting professor of law at UCLA. Aziz F. Rana is an assistant professor of law at Cornell. Their op-ed was originally posted April 10 in The New York Times.

 
 
In the wake of the recent... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=690679" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 23:48:22 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Kelsey Sharpe</author><title>Verbatim — Hollywood costumes, Mexican politics and PTSD</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-hollywood-costumes-mexican-231706.aspx?link_page_rss=231706</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-hollywood-costumes-mexican-231706.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA staff and faculty members are quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent selection.
 
&ldquo;We suspect that the gene variants produce less serotonin, predisposing these family members to... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=690577" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 23:19:04 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Dr. Alan Kaplan</author><title>Sleep-deprived surgical intern learns valuable lesson</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/sleep-deprived-surgical-resident-231575.aspx?link_page_rss=231575</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/sleep-deprived-surgical-resident-231575.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Dr. Alan L. Kaplan is a urology resident at UCLA. This op-ed ran originally in the Chicago Tribune on April 1, 2012.
 

 
 
The orthopedic resident told me to put a &quot;thumb spica cast&quot; on the guy's hand and have him follow up in the... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=690510" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 23:37:25 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>John Villasenor</author><title>What privacy? Eye-tracking computers will read your thoughts</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/what-privacy-eye-tracking-computers-231173.aspx?link_page_rss=231173</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/what-privacy-eye-tracking-computers-231173.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Software that can pinpoint precisely where on a screen you're looking is coming. When it does, the privacy debate will become even more important, as computers glean information conveying not only what we read online, but also how we read it. <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=690296" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:30:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>Verbatim — newfound frogs, battleground brain injuries and the stay-at-home generation</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-catching-frogs-brain-231017.aspx?link_page_rss=231017</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-catching-frogs-brain-231017.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA faculty members are quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent selection.


&quot;Here is a brand-new species, and it’s not a species of bacteria or a barely visible insect. … It’s a big amphibian,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=690223" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:19:35 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Peter Baldwin</author><title>Tracing Europe's long road to economic catastrophe</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/tracing-europe-s-long-road-to-230446.aspx?link_page_rss=230446</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/tracing-europe-s-long-road-to-230446.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Peter Baldwin is a professor of history at UCLA. This op-ed was posted originally in The New Republic on March 9.


The economic crisis in Europe reached its latest crescendo last night, as Greece managed, through furious last-minute negotiations,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=689833" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:27:37 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Wesley K. Clark</author><title>U.S. shouldn't rush into war with Syria</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/wesley-clark-230385.aspx?link_page_rss=230385</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/wesley-clark-230385.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Wesley K. Clark, a retired Army general and NATO's former supreme allied commander in Europe, is a senior fellow at the Burkle Center for International Relations at UCLA. Clark consults and advises companies in the satellite communications,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=689823" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:36:17 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judith L. Smith</author><title>UCLA’s commitment to community college transfer students remains strong</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-s-commitment-to-community-230207.aspx?link_page_rss=230207</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ucla-s-commitment-to-community-230207.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Judith L. Smith is UCLA’s dean and vice provost for undergraduate education. 
 
As a public institution committed to providing excellence and access to all qualified California students, UCLA has a proud history of admitting, enrolling and... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=689724" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 17:50:22 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Christopher M. Kelty</author><title>The disappearing virtual library</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/the-disappearing-virtual-library-229923.aspx?link_page_rss=229923</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/the-disappearing-virtual-library-229923.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Christopher M Kelty is an associate professor of information studies and anthropology at UCLA. He is the author of &quot;Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software.&quot; This op-ed appeared in Al Jazeera on March 1.
 
Last week a website... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=689354" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 00:15:31 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alea Bell and Laura Abrams</author><title>Second chance for youth offenders serving life sentence</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/second-chance-for-youth-offenders-229826.aspx?link_page_rss=229826</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/second-chance-for-youth-offenders-229826.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[In a policy brief issued by the UCLA Juvenile Justice and Reentry Project, graduate student Alea Bell and Associate Professor Laura Abrams, both in the Department of Social Welfare in the Luskin School of Public Affairs, outline arguments for and... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=689265" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 21:25:34 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Kelsey Sharpe</author><title>Verbatim — cancer cells, throat surgery and smoking's effect on the brain</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-cancer-cells-throat-surgery-229316.aspx?link_page_rss=229316</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-cancer-cells-throat-surgery-229316.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA faculty members are quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent selection.&quot;If we can uncover the mechanism driving this transformation, we may be able to stop it and make the therapy even more... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=688604" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:23:46 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Wesley K. Clark</author><title>Make solar energy a military mission</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/make-solar-energy-a-military-mission-229128.aspx?link_page_rss=229128</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/make-solar-energy-a-military-mission-229128.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Wesley K. Clark, retired Army general and former NATO supreme allied commander, is a senior fellow at the Burkle Center for International Relations at UCLA. This column appeared in Forbes on Feb. 14.
 
 
In his State of the Union... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=688467" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:39:55 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Eli J. Finkel and Benjamin R. Karney</author><title>Math formulas that match up couples online don't add up</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/math-formulas-that-match-up-couples-229003.aspx?link_page_rss=229003</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/math-formulas-that-match-up-couples-229003.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Eli J. Finkel (left) is an associate professor of social psychology at Northwestern University. Benjamin R. Karney is a professor of social psychology at UCLA. Their op-ed appeared Feb. 11 in The New York Times.

 
 
HOW scientific... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=688433" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:21:52 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Gary Gates</author><title>Virginia bill could deny homes to children</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/virginia-bill-could-deny-homes-228799.aspx?link_page_rss=228799</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/virginia-bill-could-deny-homes-228799.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Gary Gates serves as the Williams Distinguished Scholar at the Charles R. Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy at the UCLA School of Law. Gates co-authored The Gay and Lesbian Atlas and is a recognized national expert on... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=688301" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:56:53 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Adam Winkler</author><title>Bloomberg’s gun-control push is the wrong move for Obama</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/bloomberg-s-gun-control-ad-is-228700.aspx?link_page_rss=228700</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/bloomberg-s-gun-control-ad-is-228700.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Law Professor Adam Winkler is a specialist in American constitutional law whose work has been cited and quoted in landmark Supreme Court cases. His wide-ranging scholarship has addressed the right to bear arms, corporate political speech rights,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=688238" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:39:25 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Gene Block</author><title>Sale of Hannah Carter Japanese Garden is in UCLA's best interests</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/sale-of-hannah-carter-japanese-228686.aspx?link_page_rss=228686</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/sale-of-hannah-carter-japanese-228686.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Gene Block is chancellor of UCLA. This op-ed was posted originally in the Daily Bruin online on Feb. 8.
 
 
UCLA&rsquo;s planned sale of the Hannah Carter Japanese Garden has generated an unusual volume of commentary from our neighbors in... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=688231" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:18:34 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Mark Gold</author><title>New beach water rules: Enough to make you sick</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/new-beach-water-rules-enough-to-228599.aspx?link_page_rss=228599</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/new-beach-water-rules-enough-to-228599.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Mark Gold, associate director of the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, writes that the Beach Act of 2000 gave the EPA a chance to vastly improve protection of the nation's swimmers and surfers from pathogen-caused illnesses — an opportunity that seems about to be wasted. <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=688168" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:13:44 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>M.V. Lee Badgett</author><title>Obama should sign executive order banning job discrimination</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/obama-should-sign-executive-order-228589.aspx?link_page_rss=228589</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/obama-should-sign-executive-order-228589.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
M. V. Lee Badgett is the research director of the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law and Public Policy at UCLA. He is also the director of the Center for Public Policy and Administration at the University of... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=688163" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:23:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Daniel Treisman</author><title>Why Russia supports Syria's Assad</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/russia-s-support-for-assad-regime-228392.aspx?link_page_rss=228392</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/russia-s-support-for-assad-regime-228392.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Professor Daniel Treisman of the Department of Political Science focuses on the politics and political economy of Russia and on comparative political economy. His most recent book is &quot;The Return: Russia's Journey from Gorbachev to... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=688021" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:08:19 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Kelsey Sharpe</author><title>Verbatim — Romney’s money, negative relationships and gambling in the new year</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-romney-s-taxes-the-effects-227904.aspx?link_page_rss=227904</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-romney-s-taxes-the-effects-227904.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA faculty members are quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent selection.&ldquo;It doesn't bother me in theory, but it suggests something about his view of the tax code or his... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=687697" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:38:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Lynn Vavreck</author><title>Politics is a high-stakes game</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/politics-is-a-high-stakes-game-225741.aspx?link_page_rss=225741</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/politics-is-a-high-stakes-game-225741.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Lynn Vavreck, an associate professor of political science at UCLA, is the author of &quot;The Message Matters: The Economy and Presidential Campaigns.&quot; Her op-ed appeared originally on Jan. 22 in the New York Times.
 
&ldquo;All warfare is... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=687568" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:25:04 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Jessica Nazar</author><title>Verbatim — ‘senior moments,’ getting out of gangs and chained to your desk</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-senior-moments-getting-222799.aspx?link_page_rss=222799</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-senior-moments-getting-222799.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
UCLA faculty members are quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent selection.

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


&mdash; Dr. Gary Small, UCLA's... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=687279" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:34:04 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Kal Raustiala</author><title>Guantanomo's tainted legacy threatens to continue</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/guantanomo-tainted-legacy-threatens-221973.aspx?link_page_rss=221973</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/guantanomo-tainted-legacy-threatens-221973.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Kal Raustiala is professor of law and director of the Burkle Center for International Relations. This op-ed appeared originally in the Jan. 18 edition of the Los Angeles Times. 

 
Of all the hangovers from the George W. Bush years, the... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=687201" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:47:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alvaro Huerta</author><title>Romney's immigration stance will hurt him</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/romney-s-immigration-stance-will-221782.aspx?link_page_rss=221782</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/romney-s-immigration-stance-will-221782.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA visiting scholar Alvaro Huerta says Mitt Romney may well be on his way to the Republican nomination, but he’ll have a hard time getting further than that because of his position on immigration. <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=687015" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:35:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Dr. Gary Small</author><title>Keep walking to stay mentally sharp</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/want-to-stay-mentally-sharp-keep-221408.aspx?link_page_rss=221408</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/want-to-stay-mentally-sharp-keep-221408.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Dr. Gary Small is Parlow&ndash;Solomon Professor on Aging, director of the UCLA Longevity Center and co-author of the new book, &quot;The Alzheimer's Prevention Program: Keep Your Brain Healthy for the Rest of Your Life&quot; (Workman... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=686598" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:07:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Cynthia Lee</author><title>Verbatim — marriage, a surprise in space and a dictator's death</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-marriage-a-surprise-in-221031.aspx?link_page_rss=221031</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-marriage-a-surprise-in-221031.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA faculty members are quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent selection.
 
 
 
&quot;The vast majority of Americans continue to say they would prefer to become married... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=686082" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:43:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Jack Rothman</author><title>We're the 1 percent</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/we-re-the-1-percent-220446.aspx?link_page_rss=220446</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/we-re-the-1-percent-220446.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Jack Rothman is an emeritus professor with the Luskin School of Public Affairs. This poem appeared originally in the Huffington Post on Dec. 6, 2011.
 
 
 
 
 
 
We're the 1% of Wall Street fameWe run the shady finance... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=685618" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:57:22 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>Cathy Sandeen</author><title>View From the top: College presidents talk shop</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/view-from-the-top-hard-times-for-220310.aspx?link_page_rss=220310</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/view-from-the-top-hard-times-for-220310.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[


Cathy Sandeen is dean of continuing education and UCLA Extension. This commentary appeared originally on Dec. 4 in the Chronicle of Higher Education.


 

&quot;The university president in the United States is expected to be a friend of the... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=685551" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:29:23 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Kelsey Sharpe</author><title>Verbatim — holiday shopping, bullying and a 'smart bomb' mouthwash</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-holiday-shopping-bullying-219992.aspx?link_page_rss=219992</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-holiday-shopping-bullying-219992.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The UCLA faculty are quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent selection.&ldquo;It comes from our ancestral past. When we are faced with something really exciting and immediate we go for it. It's... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=685105" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:29:22 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw and Catharine A. MacKinnon</author><title>Why Herman Cain is unfit to lead</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/why-herman-cain-is-unfit-to-lead-219425.aspx?link_page_rss=219425</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/why-herman-cain-is-unfit-to-lead-219425.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Kimberl&eacute; Williams Crenshaw is a professor at the UCLA School of Law as well as Columbia University. Catharine A. MacKinnon is a professor of law at the University of Michigan and a visiting professor at Harvard University. This op-ed was... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=684276" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 00:00:45 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judy Lin</author><title>Verbatim — childhood obesity, why students quit science, fear and unemployment</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-childhood-obesity-why-219412.aspx?link_page_rss=219412</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-childhood-obesity-why-219412.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The UCLA faculty are quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent selection:  
 


&quot;Families having a hard time making ends meet may opt for cheaper calorie-packed foods. Or maybe people... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=684267" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 20:10:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>John Villasenor</author><title>Protect your next bright idea's patent potential</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/villasenor-america-invents-act-218637.aspx?link_page_rss=218637</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/villasenor-america-invents-act-218637.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[John Villasenor is a professor of electrical engineering in the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. This op-ed originally appeared on Nov. 6 in the Chronicle of... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=683956" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 18:15:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Joyce Appleby</author><title>The American economic pyramid: a reality check</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/the-american-economic-pyramid-218632.aspx?link_page_rss=218632</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/the-american-economic-pyramid-218632.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Joyce Appleby is an emeritus professor of history and author of &quot;The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism.&quot; This op-ed appeared originally in the Los Angeles Times on Nov. 7.
 
We hear a great deal these days about the top... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=683951" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:44:22 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Jack Rothman</author><title>The 'Occupy' movement: Will it ignite or drive change?</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/the-occupy-movement-will-it-ignite-218476.aspx?link_page_rss=218476</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/the-occupy-movement-will-it-ignite-218476.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Jack Rothman is a professor emeritus at the Luskin School of Public Affairs. This op-ed appeared originally in the Huffington Post on Nov. 3.
 
The Tea Party movement was a spark plug for the political right, leading to an election victory for... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=683749" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:00:50 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>C. Cindy Fan</author><title>China's aging population can't afford health care</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/china-healthcare-crisis-218377.aspx?link_page_rss=218377</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/china-healthcare-crisis-218377.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[C. Cindy Fan is associate dean of the Social Sciences Division, a professor in the departments of Geography and Asian American Studies, and the author of &quot;China on the Move: Migration, the State, and the Household&quot; (Routledge Studies in Human... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=683570" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 22:37:58 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Jessica Nazar</author><title>Verbatim — social media, organ trafficking and the state's falling birth rate</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-218067.aspx?link_page_rss=218067</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-218067.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The UCLA faculty are quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent selection:
 
 
&quot;It isn't a question if you have a Facebook account, it's whether you have anything to say and whether it... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=683224" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:32:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Frank Gilliam</author><title>'Occupy' protests must go beyond flash-mob politics</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/occupy-flash-mob-politics-or-social-217300.aspx?link_page_rss=217300</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/occupy-flash-mob-politics-or-social-217300.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The "Occupy Wall Street" protests have more in common with flash mobs than a social movement, but they'll have to evolve if they want to effect real change, says Public Affairs Dean Frank Gilliam. <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=682641" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:24:52 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Kelsey Sharpe</author><title>Verbatim — Steve Jobs, argumentative teens and prison hunger strikes</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-steve-jobs-opposite-sex-217282.aspx?link_page_rss=217282</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-steve-jobs-opposite-sex-217282.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The UCLA faculty are quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent selection.
 
 
 
&quot;The more you saw him as having mystique, the more it went hand in hand as him being a... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=682626" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:49:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Jack Rothman</author><title>L.A. protests against Wall Street a good start</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/occupy-wall-street-los-angeles-216874.aspx?link_page_rss=216874</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/occupy-wall-street-los-angeles-216874.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Jack Rothman is emeritus professor of social welfare at the UCLA School of Public Affairs. This op-ed originally appeared on Oct. 5 in the Huffington Post.
 
I spent Sunday afternoon at the Occupy Los Angeles encampment (its second day) on... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=682423" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:10:58 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Lynn A. Stout</author><title>Global banking rules are pro-American, anti-banker</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/global-banking-rules-are-pro-american-216558.aspx?link_page_rss=216558</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/global-banking-rules-are-pro-american-216558.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Law Prof Lynn Stout calls a banking exec’s criticism of international banking laws another case of Wall Street bigwigs' inability to distinguish between “what's good for me” and “what's good for the country.” <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=682319" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 16:27:37 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Wesley K. Clark</author><title>US advancing against al-Qaida with new kind of war</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/us-advancing-against-al-qaida-216533.aspx?link_page_rss=216533</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/us-advancing-against-al-qaida-216533.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Wesley K. Clark, a retired Army general and NATO's former supreme allied commander in Europe, is a senior fellow at the Burkle Center for International Relations. This op-ed was posted in the Guardian on Sept. 30. 
 
With the takedown... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=682273" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 21:16:15 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Ramesh Srinivasan</author><title>Five myths about social media</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/five-myths-about-social-media-216477.aspx?link_page_rss=216477</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/five-myths-about-social-media-216477.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Ramesh Srinivasan is an assistant professor of information studies and design/media arts at UCLA. This column appeared Sept. 30 in the Washington Post.
 
1. Social media gives power to the people.
More than 5 billion people are connected... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=682238" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:46:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>John Villasenor</author><title>Online classes no substitute for live teacher-student engagement</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/online-classes-no-substitute-for-216326.aspx?link_page_rss=216326</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/online-classes-no-substitute-for-216326.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[John Villasenor is a professor of electrical engineering at UCLA and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. This op-ed appeared Sept. 28 in the Los Angeles Times.
 
To the long list of threats to the quality of an American... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=681982" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:58:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judea Pearl</author><title>Moral dimension of Palestinian statehood</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/moral-dimension-of-palestinian-216321.aspx?link_page_rss=216321</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/moral-dimension-of-palestinian-216321.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Judea Pearl is a professor in computer science at UCLA and president of the Daniel Pearl Foundation (danielpearl.org), named after his son. He is a co-editor of &ldquo;I Am Jewish: Personal Reflections Inspired by the Last Words of Daniel... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=681979" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:28:33 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Harold Cole and Lee Ohanian</author><title>Stimulus and the Depression: the untold story</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/stimulus-and-the-depression-the-216283.aspx?link_page_rss=216283</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/stimulus-and-the-depression-the-216283.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Harold Cole is professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania. Lee Ohanian is professor of economics at UCLA and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. They are authors of &quot;New Deal Policies and the Persistence of the Great... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=681893" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 20:30:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Saree Makdisi</author><title>Palestinians' U.N. gamble could backfire</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/palestinians-u-n-gamble-could-215973.aspx?link_page_rss=215973</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/palestinians-u-n-gamble-could-215973.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Saree Makdisi is a professor of English and comparative literature. He is the author of &quot;Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation&quot; (W.W. Norton &amp; Company, Inc., 2008). This op-ed appeared originally in the Los Angeles Times on... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=681790" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:07:50 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Bruce Chernof and Steven P. Wallace</author><title>One option to pay for long-term care</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/one-option-to-pay-for-long-term-215544.aspx?link_page_rss=215544</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/one-option-to-pay-for-long-term-215544.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Steven P. Wallace (from the left) is the associate director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and a professor in the School of Public Health. Bruce Chernof is the president and CEO of the SCAN Foundation. This op-ed appeared... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=681449" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 22:09:26 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Mike Rose</author><title>What college can mean to the other America</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/what-college-can-mean-to-the-other-215380.aspx?link_page_rss=215380</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/what-college-can-mean-to-the-other-215380.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Mike Rose is a professor at the Graduate School of Education &amp; Information Studies and the author of &quot;Why School? Reclaiming Education for All of Us&quot; (The New Press, 2009).
 
It has been nearly 50 years since Michael Harrington wrote... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=681242" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:16:53 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Robert Buswell</author><title>Doubt — not certitude — is at core of authentic religious practice</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/buddhism-215282.aspx?link_page_rss=215282</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/buddhism-215282.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Robert Buswell is Distinguished Professor of Buddhist Studies and director of the Center for Buddhist Studies.This op-ed appeared Sept. 9 in the Huffington Post.
 
The 9/11 terrorist attacks were fostered in no small measure by the... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=681195" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 23:40:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Andrew Apter</author><title>The Tea Party's prison</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/the-tea-party-s-prison-214942.aspx?link_page_rss=214942</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/the-tea-party-s-prison-214942.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Prof. Andrew Apter confesses a "begrudging respect for the Tea Party zealots'" huge impact, but castigates their "lamentable myopia." <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=680917" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 23:25:38 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>David Kaye</author><title>A national trial for Gadhafi?</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/a-national-trial-for-qaddafi-214796.aspx?link_page_rss=214796</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/a-national-trial-for-qaddafi-214796.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[David Kaye is the executive director of the International Human Rights Law Program. This op-ed ran in the New York Times on August 31.
 
Libya's rebel leaders say they want to try Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, if and when he is captured, in Libyan... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=680711" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 23:20:23 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Jessica Nazar</author><title>Verbatim — LGBT issues, hair vs. exercise, and Hollywood goes Osama bin Laden</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-lgbt-issues-hair-and-214764.aspx?link_page_rss=214764</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-lgbt-issues-hair-and-214764.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA faculty are quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent selection: 
 

 
&quot;Legislators can no longer argue that LGBT issues are not relevant in their populations.&quot;... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=680694" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:37:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Courtney Lyder</author><title>Hospitals, patients reap rewards from nurse-led research</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/hospitals-patients-reap-rewards-214296.aspx?link_page_rss=214296</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/hospitals-patients-reap-rewards-214296.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Courtney Lyder is professor and dean of the UCLA School of Nursing and assistant director of the UCLA Health System. His op-ed appeared originally on August 23, 2011 in Hospital Impact. 

 
The last decade has seen an increased... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=680408" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 23:11:35 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Gary Orfield</author><title>State cuts to higher ed amount to heavy tax on college students</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/state-cuts-to-higher-ed-amount-214286.aspx?link_page_rss=214286</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/state-cuts-to-higher-ed-amount-214286.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Gary Orfield is professor of education, law, political science and urban planning and co-director of the Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA. His op-ed appeared originally on August 24, 2011, in the Huffington... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=680402" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 21:01:12 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Jennifer L. Mnookin</author><title>Cognitive biases can send innocent to jail</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/west-memphis-213952.aspx?link_page_rss=213952</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/west-memphis-213952.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Jennifer L. Mnookin is a professor at UCLA Law School. Her op-ed appeared originally in the August 23, 2011, issue of the Los Angeles Times. 
 
Last week, the &quot;West Memphis Three&quot; were released from prison, having spent half their... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=680293" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 23:12:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Frederick J. Zimmerman and &lt;br&gt;Beth Warshawsky Ricanati</author><title>Schools should dump sugary chocolate milk</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/schools-should-dump-sugary-chocolate-213865.aspx?link_page_rss=213865</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/schools-should-dump-sugary-chocolate-213865.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Public Health prof Frederick Zimmerman notes that a half-pint of chocolate milk has 8 grams more sugar than skim milk. With sugar's known link to obesity, he urges school districts to pour the culprit down the drain. <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=680198" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 23:31:22 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Ramesh Srinivasan</author><title>Seeking out the true role of social media in revolt</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/twitter-213475.aspx?link_page_rss=213475</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/twitter-213475.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Ramesh Srinivasan is an assistant professor in the departments of information studies and design|media arts. His findings on new media have been published in the Huffington Post and The New Yorker. His op-ed appeared originally in the... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=679807" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 16:16:40 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Vickie Mays</author><title>Fighting HIV among young, gay black men</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/fighting-hiv-among-young-gay-black-213459.aspx?link_page_rss=213459</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/fighting-hiv-among-young-gay-black-213459.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[How can public health officials fight the spread of HIV among young gay black men? Let's start with sex-ed, says UCLA Professor Vickie Mays.
 <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=679781" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 23:22:58 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Mike Rose</author><title>Obama needs to become the nation's teacher-in-chief</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/pleas-for-president-obama-to-teach-213324.aspx?link_page_rss=213324</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/pleas-for-president-obama-to-teach-213324.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Mike Rose is a professor of education in the Graduate School of Education &amp; Information Studies and the author of &ldquo;Why School?: Reclaiming Education for All of Us&rdquo; (The New Press, 2009) and &ldquo;Possible Lives: The... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=679685" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 21:52:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Matthew Kahn</author><title>Japanese respond to national call to save energy</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/japanese-respond-to-national-call-211470.aspx?link_page_rss=211470</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/japanese-respond-to-national-call-211470.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Matthew Kahn, a professor with the Institute of the Environment &amp; Sustainability and the departments of Public Policy and Economics, has written three books: &quot;Green Cities&quot; (Brookings Institution Press); &quot;Heroes and Cowards&quot;... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=678685" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 17:43:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Eric Jager</author><title>Author finds he's been 'pirated'</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/author-finds-he-s-been-pirated-211399.aspx?link_page_rss=211399</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/author-finds-he-s-been-pirated-211399.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Eric Jager, professor of English, teaches medieval literature at UCLA. He's the author of &quot;The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France&quot; (Broadway, 2004), adapted for BBC radio and TV, and now... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=678680" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 15:42:01 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Daniel J.B. Mitchell</author><title>Good and bad news about Washington's wrangling over debt ceiling</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/good-and-bad-news-about-wrangling-211349.aspx?link_page_rss=211349</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/good-and-bad-news-about-wrangling-211349.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Daniel J.B. Mitchell is professor emeritus with a dual appointment to the UCLA Anderson School of Management and the School of Public Affairs. This op-ed originally appeared July 30 in EPRN, the website for the Employment Policy Research Network,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=678620" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 15:54:34 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Abigail C. Saguy</author><title>Why a French sex scandal could only start in the U.S.</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/why-a-french-sex-scandal-could-211181.aspx?link_page_rss=211181</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/why-a-french-sex-scandal-could-211181.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA Prof Abigail Saguy, an expert in French and American sexual harassment laws, explains why it took an American maid's accusation against French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn to launch a scandal, despite old rumors against him in France. <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=678323" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:25:07 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>George Bartzokis</author><title>Budget cuts could lead to Alzheimer's boom</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/budget-cuts-could-lead-to-alzheimer-211154.aspx?link_page_rss=211154</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/budget-cuts-could-lead-to-alzheimer-211154.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Balancing the budget by cutting medical research will lead to huge costs down the road, especially as Baby Boomers reach Alzheimer's age. Promising treatment possibilities are going uninvestigated, says UCLA Prof George Bartzokis. <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=678306" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:47:20 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Russell Jacoby</author><title>The terror from within</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/the-terror-from-within-211085.aspx?link_page_rss=211085</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/the-terror-from-within-211085.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[We prefer to imagine threats come from foreigners, but from the terror in Oslo to the Oklahoma City bombings, most threats and violence emerge from within a society, not outside. <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=678277" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:54:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Emilio Hernandez</author><title>Verbatim — Karmageddon, brain aid and memory storage</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-karmageddon-brain-aid-210820.aspx?link_page_rss=210820</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-karmageddon-brain-aid-210820.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The UCLA faculty is quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent selection.
 

&quot;Being in the car and having a little bit of alone time is not a bad option if you have someone you can really talk... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=677945" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 15:52:08 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Jack Rothman</author><title>Debunking the family budget analogy</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/debunking-the-family-budget-analogy-210539.aspx?link_page_rss=210539</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/debunking-the-family-budget-analogy-210539.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Jack Rothman is a professor emeritus at the Luskin School of Public Affairs. His op-ed appeared originally in the Huffinton Post on July 11, 2011.
 
Republican pundits are aghast over the staggering deficit and scold us to deal with the budget... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=677584" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 19:54:59 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Robert Jensen and Nolan Miller</author><title>A taste test for hunger</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/a-taste-test-for-hunger-210499.aspx?link_page_rss=210499</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/a-taste-test-for-hunger-210499.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Robert Jensen is an associate professor of public policy at UCLA's Luskin School of Public Affairs. Nolan Miller is a professor of finance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Their op-ed appeared originally in the New York Times... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=677525" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 21:40:10 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Joyce Appleby</author><title>Founding Fathers foresaw presidential ambition to wage war</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/joyce-appleby-210049.aspx?link_page_rss=210049</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/joyce-appleby-210049.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Joyce Appleby is a professor of history emerita and the author of &quot;The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism.&quot; This op-ed appeared originally in the July 3, 2011, issue of the Los Angeles Times.
 
James Madison would have smiled... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=677363" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:22:50 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>V. Claire Jadulang</author><title>Verbatim — Carmageddon, animal testing and Jon Stewart</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/carmaggedon-animal-testing-and-209728.aspx?link_page_rss=209728</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/carmaggedon-animal-testing-and-209728.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA faculty members are quoted every day in the media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here&rsquo;s what some of them said recently:
 
&quot;If someone isn't there to take care of them who is appropriately competent to do that, that patient is... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=677143" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 19:00:13 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Abigail C. Saguy</author><title>France should follow America's lead on sexual harassment</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/france-should-follow-america-s-209707.aspx?link_page_rss=209707</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/france-should-follow-america-s-209707.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Abigail C. Saguy is an associate professor of sociology at UCLA and the author of &quot;What is Sexual Harassment?: From Capitol Hill to the Sorbonne&quot; (University of California Press, 2003). She is currently in Paris as part of an exchange program with... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=677123" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 21:00:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>V. Claire Jadulang</author><title>Verbatim — New Zealand neurosis, solar energy surge and ugly husbands</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-208626.aspx?link_page_rss=208626</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-208626.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[

UCLA faculty members are quoted every day in the media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here&rsquo;s what some of them said recently:

 

&quot;This opens a door to truly personalize medicine based on one's physical characteristics, rather... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=676842" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 22:05:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Jessica Nazar</author><title>Verbatim — Spanish-TV Emmy, cyber cheating, HIV prevention and more</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-208375.aspx?link_page_rss=208375</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-208375.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA faculty members are quoted every day in the media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here&rsquo;s what some of them said recently:
 
&quot;It would be a big step in recognizing Spanish programming in the context of American television and... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=676640" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 23:35:43 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Mark A.R. Kleiman</author><title>Legal pot is best of bad options</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/legal-pot-is-best-of-bad-options-208367.aspx?link_page_rss=208367</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/legal-pot-is-best-of-bad-options-208367.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Mark Kleiman is professor of public policy at the Luskin School of Public Affairs and the editor of the Journal of Drug Policy Analysis. This op-ed appeared June 14, 2011, in Bloomberg News.
 
 
Californians are ready to make another... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=676636" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:57:45 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Jessica Nazar</author><title>Verbatim — Cell phone clinics, paralysis in DC, and discovering AIDS</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-cell-phone-clinics-paralysis-207989.aspx?link_page_rss=207989</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-cell-phone-clinics-paralysis-207989.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA faculty members are quoted every day in the media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here&rsquo;s what some of them said last week:

 
&quot;It&rsquo;s a very exciting time for all the researchers who are aiming to provide new solutions for... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=676170" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:00:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Ann Carlson</author><title>Germany's nuclear energy phase-out endangers climate</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/germany-s-nuclear-energy-phase-207771.aspx?link_page_rss=207771</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/germany-s-nuclear-energy-phase-207771.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Germany’s plan to phase out nuclear energy after the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan, means Germany trades nuclear safety for more emissions, or an expensive and possible unfeasibly large expansion of renewable energy. <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=675945" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 18:28:58 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Kelsey Sharpe</author><title>Verbatim — Cell phones and cancer, synthetic human blood, and ancient Egyptian agriculture</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-cell-phones-and-cancer-207684.aspx?link_page_rss=207684</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-cell-phones-and-cancer-207684.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
UCLA faculty members are quoted every day in the media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here&rsquo;s what some of them said this week:
 

&quot;It's not new news. They've been cautioning people for a long time.&quot;


 
&mdash; Sally... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=675833" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 22:08:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Teresa Valenzuela</author><title>Scholarships help staff members achieve personal goals</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/scholarships-help-staff-members-204367.aspx?link_page_rss=204367</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/scholarships-help-staff-members-204367.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Teresa Valenzuela works in alumni outreach, but with the help of a Staff Assembly scholarship, she earned a UCLA Extension certificate in her dream field: journalism.
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