<?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>Tue, 21 May 2013 16:25:12 GMT</pubDate><title>Voices</title><description /><copyright>UCLA Today</copyright><generator>iPressroom.com</generator><item><author>Joanna C. Schwartz</author><title>How health care is learning from lawsuits</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/how-health-care-is-learning-from-246231.aspx?link_page_rss=246231</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/how-health-care-is-learning-from-246231.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Joanna Schwartz is an assistant professor at the UCLA School of Law, who has a forthcoming article in the New York University Law Review that shows how medical malpractice claims help play a role in improving patient safety. This op-ed was... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=706322" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 16:25:12 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alvaro Huerto</author><title>Say 'No' to Gang of Eight's immigration reform bill</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/say-no-to-gang-of-eight-s-immigration-246159.aspx?link_page_rss=246159</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/say-no-to-gang-of-eight-s-immigration-246159.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Alvaro Huerta, a UCLA visiting scholar at the Chicano Studies Research Center, is the author of the forthcoming book, &quot;Reframing the Latino Immigration Debate: Towards a Humanistic Paradigm,&quot; by San Diego State University Press. This op-ed was... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=706236" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 18:42:05 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Dr. Susan Partovi</author><title>For a dying patient, a prescription of silence</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/for-a-dying-patient-a-prescription-246124.aspx?link_page_rss=246124</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/for-a-dying-patient-a-prescription-246124.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Dr. Susan Partovi is a family medicine physician and a volunteer instructor at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine and the medical director for Homeless Health Care Los Angeles. This op-ed was originally published in the Los Angeles Times on May... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=706191" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 19:23:07 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Mark Wise</author><title>Wounded soldiers race to South Pole</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/wounded-soldiers-race-to-the-south-246123.aspx?link_page_rss=246123</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/wounded-soldiers-race-to-the-south-246123.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Mark Wise, trained at the United States Air Force Academy as an Army infantry officer, was deployed to Afghanistan in 2009 as a platoon leader, where he suffered severe injuries when an explosive device detonated just inches away from him. He... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=706192" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 19:13:02 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Sylvia Duzaryan</author><title>Verbatim — tracking our thoughts, families online and hidden viruses</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-246105.aspx?link_page_rss=246105</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-246105.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;We're always counting on science to tell us where we came from.&quot;

David Paige, professor in the UCLA Department of... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=706189" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 23:50:55 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Peter Nonacs</author><title>'Flipping' the test gives true assessment of student learning</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/prof-finds-a-way-to-flip-the-test-245597.aspx?link_page_rss=245597</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/prof-finds-a-way-to-flip-the-test-245597.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Peter Nonacs is a professor in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department at UCLA. He studies the evolution of social behavior across species, ranging from viruses, to insects, to mammals and even occasionally humans. His commentary appeared... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=705664" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 23:08:42 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>John Villasenor</author><title>Google Glass and the demise of ownership</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/google-glass-and-the-demise-of-245527.aspx?link_page_rss=245527</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/google-glass-and-the-demise-of-245527.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
John Villasenor is professor of electrical engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. This op-ed was posted on Slate on April 23,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=705577" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 22:17:25 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>John Ullmen and Mark Goulston</author><title>How to really understand someone else's point of view</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/how-to-really-understand-someone-245521.aspx?link_page_rss=245521</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/how-to-really-understand-someone-245521.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[

John Ullmen

John Ullmen is a lecturer on leadership at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and overseas MotivationRules.com. Dr.Mark Goulston, is a business psychiatrist, executive consultant, keynote speaker and co-founder of Heartfelt... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=705573" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:14:05 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco and Carola Suárez-Orozco</author><title>Immigrant youth require 'scaffold of support'</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/immigrant-youth-require-scaffold-245482.aspx?link_page_rss=245482</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/immigrant-youth-require-scaffold-245482.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Marcelo Su&aacute;rez-Orozco is a distinguished professor and dean of the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. Carola Su&aacute;rez-Orozco is professor of education and co-director of the UCLA Institute for... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=705523" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 19:22:33 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Jeffrey D. Simon</author><title>What makes lone-wolf terrorists so dangerous?</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/what-makes-lone-wolfe-terrorists-245316.aspx?link_page_rss=245316</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/what-makes-lone-wolfe-terrorists-245316.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[

Jeffrey Simon is a visiting lecturer of political science at UCLA, an expert on terrorism and political violence, and author of a newly released book, &ldquo;Lone Wolf Terrorism: Understanding the Growing Threat&rdquo; (Prometheus, 2013). This... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=705386" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:02:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Kent Wong</author><title>Stopping wage theft should be high on L.A. mayor's priority list</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/kent-wong-245256.aspx?link_page_rss=245256</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/kent-wong-245256.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Kent Wong is director of the UCLA Labor Center, where he teaches courses in labor studies and Asian American studies. He wrote this commentary at the invitation of the Los Angeles Times, which asked Angelenos what the next L.A.... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=705294" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:26:33 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Marjorie Faulstich Orellana</author><title>Organized acts of kindness</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/organized-acts-of-kindness-245246.aspx?link_page_rss=245246</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/organized-acts-of-kindness-245246.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Marjorie Faulstich Orellana is a professor of education at UCLA. Her essay appeared in the Huffington Post on April 15, 2012.
 
I chose to celebrate my fifth post-cancer birthday by inviting people to do acts of kindness, because during a... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=705295" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 23:43:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Peter Reiher</author><title>Insecurity in cyberspace</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/insecurity-in-cyberspace-245197.aspx?link_page_rss=245197</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/insecurity-in-cyberspace-245197.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Peter Reiher, an adjunct professor of computer science at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has done extensive research on denial-of-service attacks and other Internet security issues. This op-ed originally appeared... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=705216" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:43:35 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Sylvia Duzaryan</author><title>Verbatim — gang survival, unmarried women and homosexual health</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-4-10-245177.aspx?link_page_rss=245177</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-4-10-245177.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.
 
Thatcher and Reagan were “kind of like a tag team, dynamic duo; bringing [their economic] policies to... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=705181" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 23:01:04 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Teri Schwartz</author><title>Story, social responsibility and the case for a new model for entertainment, education</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/story-social-responsibility-and-245116.aspx?link_page_rss=245116</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/story-social-responsibility-and-245116.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Teri Schwartz is dean of the School of Theater, Film and Television at UCLA. This piece was published in Forbes Magazine on April 7, 2013. 

 
 
 
Story.
 
It is the timeless, universal language that ties... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=705095" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 21:23:37 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Matthew Kahn</author><title>High-speed rail might boost housing prices, if Calif. can afford to invest in it</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/high-speed-rail-could-boost-housing-245014.aspx?link_page_rss=245014</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/high-speed-rail-could-boost-housing-245014.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[When high-speed rail links smaller cities to mega-cities, both cities benefit, says Prof Matthew Kahn. In China, housing prices in smaller cities grew 4.2 percent, and if austerity doesn't derail investment, California's high-speed plans could fuel similar booms, Kahn says. <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=705038" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 18:07:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Devon Carbado and Mitu Gulati</author><title>Discrimination a matter of racial character as well as color</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/racial-character-not-just-skin-244972.aspx?link_page_rss=244972</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/racial-character-not-just-skin-244972.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Devon Carbado, a professor at the UCLA School of Law, is a nationally recognized figure in the field of critical race theory and is actively involved in shaping a nationwide discourse on race, identity and the law. Mitu Gulati is a professor at... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=704966" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 22:14:19 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Razmig Sarkissian</author><title>Verbatim — TV writer non-diversity, the bionic eye and the bull$%#t of performance reviews</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-244606.aspx?link_page_rss=244606</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-244606.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.
 

“Much more work must be done on the television diversity front before the corps of writers... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=704854" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 18:04:12 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Daniel Blumstein</author><title>A teachable moment in the debate about plastic bag ban</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/a-teachable-moment-in-the-debate-244423.aspx?link_page_rss=244423</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/a-teachable-moment-in-the-debate-244423.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Daniel Blumstein is a professor in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, chair of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and co-author of &quot;The Failure of Environmental Education (and How We Can Fix It).&quot; His op-ed... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=704586" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 15:58:49 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alvaro Huerta</author><title>We need real immigration reform</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/we-need-real-immigration-reform-244268.aspx?link_page_rss=244268</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/we-need-real-immigration-reform-244268.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Alvaro Huerta, a UCLA visiting scholar at the Chicano Studies Research Center, is the author of a forthcoming book, &quot;How the Other Half Gets Scapegoated: Immigrants and the Working Poor in the U.S.&quot;  This op-ed appeared originally in the... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=704426" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:41:37 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Chancellor Gene Block</author><title>College is more than a 'return on investment'</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/college-is-more-than-a-return-244241.aspx?link_page_rss=244241</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/college-is-more-than-a-return-244241.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Chancellor Gene Block serves on the board of directors of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities and is a member of the executive committee of the Association of American Universities. This op-ed appeared March 14, 2013, in... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=704347" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:20:16 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Kevin Dirksen and Neil Wenger</author><title>When CPR isn't the right medicine</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/when-cpr-isn-t-the-right-medicine-244179.aspx?link_page_rss=244179</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/when-cpr-isn-t-the-right-medicine-244179.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[

Kevin M. Dirksen (right) is an ethics fellow at the UCLA Health System Ethics Center. Neil S. Wenger is the center's director.

 
 
The 911 call last month that led to an emergency dispatcher begging workers at a Bakersfield senior... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=704287" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 21:40:42 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Chon A. Noriega</author><title>The academy's conundrum: Lupe Ontiveros</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/the-academy-s-conundrum-lupe-ontiveros-243939.aspx?link_page_rss=243939</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/the-academy-s-conundrum-lupe-ontiveros-243939.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Chon A. Noriega is a professor in the Department of Film, Television and Digital Media at UCLA and the director of the Chicano Studies Research Center. This op-ed appeared March 1, 2013, in... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=704030" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:07:35 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Danny Oppenheimer and Mike Edwards</author><title>Italy's democratic triumph</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/italy-s-recent-election-is-further-243898.aspx?link_page_rss=243898</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/italy-s-recent-election-is-further-243898.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Danny Oppenheimer (left) is an associate professor at UCLA Anderson School of Management. Mike Edwards, the founding contributor of Leftfielder.org, a blog on politics and media, and Oppenheimer have written a book, ... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=704012" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 00:07:53 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Razmig Sarkissian</author><title>Verbatim ─ preserving a dying language, shady art dealers and throwaway kids</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-the-dangers-of-sitting-243843.aspx?link_page_rss=243843</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-the-dangers-of-sitting-243843.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;Not only do they get chronic wounds more than the rest of us, but they take longer to heal in that... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=703880" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 02:23:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Richard Walter</author><title>Movie audiences seek emotion, not data</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/movie-audiences-eek-emotion-not-243726.aspx?link_page_rss=243726</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/movie-audiences-eek-emotion-not-243726.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Richard Walter is the chairman of UCLA's graduate program in screenwriting and author of &quot;Essentials of Screenwriting.&quot; His op-ed appeared Feb. 21 in USA Today.
 
 
 
When I'm hungry and crave a tuna sandwich, I don't go to a... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=703757" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 17:38:14 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Kal Raustiala</author><title>Could U.S. launch drones into U.S. cities?</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/could-u-s-launch-drones-into-u-243644.aspx?link_page_rss=243644</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/could-u-s-launch-drones-into-u-243644.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[

Kal Raustiala is a professor of law and a professor at the UCLA International Institute, where he teaches in the Program on Global Studies. Since 2007 he has served as the director of the UCLA Ronald W. Burkle Center for International... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=703661" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 18:02:47 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Adam Winkler</author><title>Who gets a gun?</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/who-gets-a-gun-243605.aspx?link_page_rss=243605</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/who-gets-a-gun-243605.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Adam Winkler is a professor at UCLA School of Law and the author of &quot;Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America.&quot; This op-ed was originally published today (Feb. 15) in the Los Angeles... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=703614" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 20:15:14 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>John Villasenor</author><title>Who owns your personal history?</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/who-owns-your-personal-history-243484.aspx?link_page_rss=243484</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/who-owns-your-personal-history-243484.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[John Villasenor is a professor of electrical engineering and a nonresident senior fellow at The Brookings Institution. This piece was originally posted Feb. 1, 2012, on the website, Fast Company.
 
One day in December 1955, former... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=703480" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 23:39:31 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Marjorie Faulstich Orellana</author><title>Our debt to Guatemalans: a chance for atonement</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/our-debt-to-guatemalans-a-chance-243093.aspx?link_page_rss=243093</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/our-debt-to-guatemalans-a-chance-243093.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[

Marjorie Faulstich Orellana is an associate professor of education at UCLA. Her op-ed appeared Jan. 30, 2013, in the Huffington Post. 
 
A past president of Guatemala is being called to justice in Guatemala, for atrocities committed by... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=703119" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 21:37:58 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Abigail Saguy</author><title>Size profiling discriminates against overweight patients</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/size-profiling-discriminates-against-243037.aspx?link_page_rss=243037</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/size-profiling-discriminates-against-243037.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Abigail Saguy, an associate professor and vice chair of sociology at UCLA, is the author of &ldquo;What&rsquo;s Wrong With Fat?&rdquo; Her op-ed appeared Jan. 25, 2013, in the Washington Post.
 
Obesity is widely regarded as one of the greatest... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=703032" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:48:37 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Daniel Blumstein</author><title>How to really green the Super Bowl</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/how-to-really-green-the-super-242958.aspx?link_page_rss=242958</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/how-to-really-green-the-super-242958.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Prof Daniel Blumstein calls out the Super Bowl for going superficially green, and suggests improving your viewing party by consciously ignoring the "orgy of advertising" and focusing on friendships instead of unsustainable consumption. <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=702928" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 18:29:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Gary Orfield</author><title>MLK's vision was missing from President Obama's inaugural speech</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/president-obama-s-speech-and-mlk-242874.aspx?link_page_rss=242874</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/president-obama-s-speech-and-mlk-242874.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Gary Orfield is a professor of education, law, political science and urban planning at UCLA and the co-director of the Civil Rights Project based at UCLA. He is the co-author of &quot;The Resegregation of Suburban Schools: A Hidden Crisis in American... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=702812" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 16:01:44 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Imelda Nava-Laderos and Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco</author><title>A golden APLE for California's teachers</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/aple-for-teachers-242865.aspx?link_page_rss=242865</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/aple-for-teachers-242865.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Imelda Nava-Landeros is a lecturer in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies and faculty adviser in the Teacher Education Program. Marcelo M. Su&aacute;rez-Orozco is dean of the school. This op-ed appeared Jan. 8 in the... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=702791" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 23:07:47 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Beverly Macy</author><title>GirlPower in politics: There's now an app for that</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/everybody-s-excited-about-how-242717.aspx?link_page_rss=242717</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/everybody-s-excited-about-how-242717.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Beverly Macy, CEO of Gravity Summit, Inc., and co-author of &quot;The Power of Real-Time Social Media Marketing&quot; (McGraw-Hill, 2011), teaches executive global marketing and branding and social media marketing for UCLA Extension. This op-ed originally... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=702592" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:06:13 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Steve Olsen</author><title>Claims against approval process for Luskin Conference and Guest Center lack merit</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/claims-against-approval-process-242540.aspx?link_page_rss=242540</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/claims-against-approval-process-242540.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
On Jan. 7, critics of the Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference and Guest Center published a guest opinion column in the Daily Bruin, elaborating on their lawsuit challenging the project. UCLA Chief Financial Officer and Vice Chancellor Steve Olsen... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=702415" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:57:58 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>A. Janet Tomiyama, Britt Ahlstrom and Traci Mann</author><title>Is dieting worth the trouble?</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/is-dieting-worth-the-trouble-242524.aspx?link_page_rss=242524</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/is-dieting-worth-the-trouble-242524.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[

A. Janet Tomiyama is a UCLA assistant professor of psychology and director of the Dieting, Stress, and Health Laboratory. The op-ed, which she co-authored, appeared recently in the Huffington Post. It was co-authored by Britt Ahlstrom,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=702372" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 22:53:16 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Daniel Blumstein</author><title>Amend the constitution: Add the right to a clean environment</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/amend-the-constitution-add-the-242520.aspx?link_page_rss=242520</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/amend-the-constitution-add-the-242520.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Prof Daniel Blumstein argues for an new amendment to the constitution to protect people's right to clean air, pure water and the preservation of the environment. <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=702369" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 21:29:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Razmig Sarkissian</author><title>Verbatim ─ Weight-loss resolutions, filibusters gone wild and allergies ... there’s an app for that</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-242415.aspx?link_page_rss=242415</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-242415.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;They ate together. They cried together. They said how sad it was to lose the dead boy&hellip;And they reached... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=702261" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 21:29:56 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Joyce Appleby</author><title>Down with the filibuster</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/down-with-the-filibuster-242363.aspx?link_page_rss=242363</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/down-with-the-filibuster-242363.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Joyce Appleby is an emeritus professor of history at UCLA and author of &quot;The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism.&quot; Her op-ed appeared originally today in the Los Angeles Times.
 


On Jan. 3, there's a chance that the U.S. Senate... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=702174" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2013 23:26:29 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Douglas Kellner</author><title>The Sandy Hook slaughter: turning point for gun control?</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/f-242358.aspx?link_page_rss=242358</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/f-242358.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Douglas Kellner is the George F. Kneller Professor of the Philosophy of Education at UCLA's Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. This op-ed was originally posted Dec. 20 in the Huffington Post.
 
Will the brutal... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=702178" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2013 20:51:28 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Marcelo Suarez-Orozco</author><title>What the Sandy Hook shooting robbed us of</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/suarez-orozco-dean-of-ucla-s-graduate-242357.aspx?link_page_rss=242357</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/suarez-orozco-dean-of-ucla-s-graduate-242357.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, dean of UCLA's Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, is a former adviser on Education, Peace, and Justice to the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in the Hague, and is co-author of Cultures... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=702172" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2013 20:43:47 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Matthew Lieberman</author><title>How to get bipartisan filibuster reform passed now</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/how-to-get-bipartisan-filibuster-242056.aspx?link_page_rss=242056</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/how-to-get-bipartisan-filibuster-242056.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Matthew Lieberman is a sociology professor at UCLA. He is also editor-in-chief of Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience and author of an upcoming book, &ldquo;Social: Why Our Brains are Wired to Connect.&quot; His column was posted on Dec. 17 in... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=701993" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 00:45:37 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Samuel Culbert</author><title>10 reasons to get rid of performance reviews</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/10-reasons-to-get-rid-of-performance-242055.aspx?link_page_rss=242055</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/10-reasons-to-get-rid-of-performance-242055.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Samuel Culbert is a researcher and professor at UCLA Anderson School of Management. Among his numerous books is &quot;Get Rid of the Performance Review! How Companies Can Stop Intimidating, Start Managing &mdash; and Focus on What Really... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=701949" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 00:08:47 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Edward Prescott and Lee Ohanian</author><title>Taxes are much higher than you think</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/taxes-are-much-higher-than-you-241741.aspx?link_page_rss=241741</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/taxes-are-much-higher-than-you-241741.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Edward Prescott (right), co-winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Economics, is director of the Center for the Advanced Study in Economic Efficiency at Arizona State University. Lee Ohanian (left), the associate director of the center, is a... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=701682" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 21:39:46 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Courtney H. Lyder</author><title>Nurse practitioners offer the best cure for America's physician shortage</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/remove-outdated-barriers-so-nurse-241595.aspx?link_page_rss=241595</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/remove-outdated-barriers-so-nurse-241595.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Courtney H. Lyder is the dean of the UCLA School of Nursing, a professor of medicine and public health, executive director of the UCLA Health System Patient Safety Institute and assistant director of the UCLA Health... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=701581" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:22:10 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Dr. Karen Miotto</author><title>Protect yourself from holiday excesses of food, drink</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/protect-yourself-from-holiday-241531.aspx?link_page_rss=241531</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/protect-yourself-from-holiday-241531.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Dr, Karen Miotto is a professor of clinical psychiatry and director of the Alcoholism and Addiction Medicine Service in the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior.
 
How do people decide how much food to eat, alcohol to... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=701561" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 19:21:07 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Razmig Sarkissian</author><title>Verbatim ─ the dangers of sitting, fracking and scamming the elderly</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-the-dangers-of-sitting-241478.aspx?link_page_rss=241478</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-the-dangers-of-sitting-241478.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;The science is still evolving, but we believe that sitting is harmful in... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=701456" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 01:00:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Cara Horowitz</author><title>Challenging L.A. candidates to get specific on environmental sustainability</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/challenging-l-a-candidates-to-241441.aspx?link_page_rss=241441</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/challenging-l-a-candidates-to-241441.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA researchers call on L.A.'s mayoral and city council candidates to focus on the environment -- and the researchers wrote L.A.'s first comprehensive environmental sustainability plan to guide the politicians through the next two terms. <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=701385" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2012 23:28:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Daniel J. B. Mitchell</author><title>Lessons for Obama, Congress from world of collective bargaining</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/lessons-for-obama-congress-from-241363.aspx?link_page_rss=241363</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/lessons-for-obama-congress-from-241363.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[

Negotiations between President Obama and Congress are soon to take place over the &quot;fiscal cliff&quot; and lifting the debt ceiling. What lessons are there for these political negotiations from the world of collective bargaining? Quite a... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=701310" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 20:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>C. Cindy Fan</author><title>Don’t expect big changes from new leadership in China</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/don-t-expect-big-changes-from-241131.aspx?link_page_rss=241131</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/don-t-expect-big-changes-from-241131.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[China has new leadership in Xi Jinping. Prof Cindy Fan says to expect an emphasis on the party, the people and problem-solving, but not political reform. <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=701014" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2012 17:27:46 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Mark Kleiman</author><title>Use the states as laboratories for marijuana policy</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/use-the-states-as-laboratories-241025.aspx?link_page_rss=241025</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/use-the-states-as-laboratories-241025.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Mark Kleiman is a professor of public policy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. He is the editor of the journal Drug Policy Analysis and co-author of the book &quot;Marijuana Legalization: What Everyone Needs to Know&quot; (Oxford University Press,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=700857" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 17:48:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Peter Taylor</author><title>UC debt 'swaps' avoid risk, save money</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/uc-debt-swaps-avoid-risk-save-240876.aspx?link_page_rss=240876</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/uc-debt-swaps-avoid-risk-save-240876.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Peter Taylor is the chief financial officer in the UC Office of the President. This op-ed was posted originally in the San Francisco Chronicle on Wednesday.
 


The University of California has come under criticism for its finance decisions... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=700693" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 17:33:55 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Dan Blumstein</author><title>Science, not 'gut feeling,' predicts elections — and climate change</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/science-not-gut-feeling-predicts-240704.aspx?link_page_rss=240704</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/science-not-gut-feeling-predicts-240704.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Prof Dan Blumstein on the major disconnect between data and punditry in recent election, both in predicting the winners and the discussion of climate change. <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=700417" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2012 17:52:46 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Lynn Vavreck</author><title>In defense of the undecided</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/in-defense-of-the-undecided-240481.aspx?link_page_rss=240481</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/in-defense-of-the-undecided-240481.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Lynn Vavreck is a UCLA associate professor of political science and communication studies and co-author, with John Sides, of &ldquo;The Gamble: Choice and Chance in the 2012 Presidential Election.&rdquo; She's also co-principal... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=700047" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 18:14:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Lynn Vavreck and William Mapother</author><title>Dissecting the political race, Hollywood-style</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/dissecting-the-political-race-240480.aspx?link_page_rss=240480</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/dissecting-the-political-race-240480.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Lynn Vavreck is an associate professor of political science and communication studies at UCLA. She is a co-author, with John Sides, of &ldquo;The Gamble: Choice and Chance in the 2012 Presidential Election,&rdquo; the author of &ldquo;The Message... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=700044" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 17:50:37 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Kip Hagopian and Lee Ohanian</author><title>Payroll taxes are 'regressive'? Time to rethink that idea</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/op-ed-240456.aspx?link_page_rss=240456</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/op-ed-240456.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[


Lee Ohanian

Kip Hagopian is the chairman of Maxim Integrated Products Inc., a semiconductor company, and was a founding general partner of Brentwood Associates, a venture capital and private-equity firm. Lee Ohanian is professor of economics at... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=700001" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2012 22:55:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco</author><title>Nation's largest workforce provider under siege</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/nation-s-largest-workforce-provider-240243.aspx?link_page_rss=240243</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/nation-s-largest-workforce-provider-240243.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Marcelo M. Su&aacute;rez-Orozco is dean and a distinguished professor of education at UCLA's Graduate School of Education &amp; Information Studies. He was the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Education and Culture at Harvard and the Courtney Sale... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=699894" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:09:37 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Mark Kleiman</author><title>Saving the University of California</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/saving-the-university-of-california-240170.aspx?link_page_rss=240170</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/saving-the-university-of-california-240170.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Mark Kleiman is a professor of public policy at UCLA. This op-ed was posted originally in Washington Monthly and The Reality-based Community on Oct. 26.

 
The University of California system is one of the great miracles of... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=699809" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 15:18:38 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Cynthia Lee</author><title>Get a sneak peek at Pauley</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/get-a-sneak-peak-at-pauley-240060.aspx?link_page_rss=240060</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/get-a-sneak-peak-at-pauley-240060.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Students, staff and faculty will get their chance to see for themselves how architects and crafts people have skillfully reimagined and updated one of UCLA's most iconic buildings, Pauley Pavilion. With its state-of-the-art amenities and... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=699735" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:08:32 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Carlos Alberto Torres</author><title>The Republican Party's perfect storm</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/the-republican-party-s-perfect-240044.aspx?link_page_rss=240044</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/the-republican-party-s-perfect-240044.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Carlos Alberto Torres is a professor of education at UCLA and author and co-founder of the Paulo Freire Institute. His op-ed appeared originally in the HuffPost on Oct. 23, 2012.
 
Hegemony is a concept derived from the Greek word... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=699698" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 22:40:50 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Donald Shoup</author><title>Cut disabled parking abuse to ease parking crunch</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/parking-239924.aspx?link_page_rss=239924</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/parking-239924.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Donald Shoup is professor of urban planning at UCLA's Luskin School of Public Affairs. This op-ed originally appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Oct. 22, 2012.

 
 
Cities should set the right prices for curb parking because the wrong... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=699556" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 16:55:47 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Erica Frankenberg and Gary Orfield</author><title>Why suburbs need integration plans</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/gary-orfield-239922.aspx?link_page_rss=239922</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/gary-orfield-239922.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[


Erica Frankenberg is an assistant professor of education policy studies at Pennsylvania State University. Gary Orfield is a professor of education, law, political science and urban planning at UCLA and the co-director of the Civil Rights Project... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=699552" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 16:14:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Gene Block</author><title>Keep public universities public</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/chancellor-block-239847.aspx?link_page_rss=239847</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/chancellor-block-239847.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Chancellor Gene Block was one of eight experts asked by Time magazine to share their ideas for improving higher education in the magazine's Oct. 29 issue. He is chairman of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities. His piece... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=699481" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 18:40:04 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Lynn Vavreck</author><title>For undecided voters, party identification matters</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/lynn-vavreck-239812.aspx?link_page_rss=239812</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/lynn-vavreck-239812.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Lynn Vavreck is an associate professor of political science and communication studies. To read more about her research, go here. This op-ed was posted originally on Oct. 16 in the New York Times.
  

We are down to the last three weeks... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=699468" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 15:17:13 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Mark Gold</author><title>Refreshing the Clean Water Act</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/refreshing-the-clean-water-act-239768.aspx?link_page_rss=239768</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/refreshing-the-clean-water-act-239768.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Mark Gold writes that the Clean Water Act has saved Santa Monica Bay, reducing sewage by 90 percent and eliminating the Bay's dead zone, among other successes, but there's more to do. The law, 40 years old tomorrow, needs updating to meet the act's ambitious goals. <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=699418" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 15:48:28 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Danny Oppenheimer and Mike Edwards</author><title>Those managing voter rolls in elections are biased</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/throwing-a-yellow-flag-239756.aspx?link_page_rss=239756</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/throwing-a-yellow-flag-239756.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
 
Danny Oppenheimer (left) is an associate professor at UCLA's Anderson School of Management. Mike Edwards is the founding contributor of Leftfielder.org, a blog on politics and media. Both are co-authors of &quot;Democracy Despite Itself: Why... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=699395" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 22:48:12 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Abigal Saguy</author><title>Weight-based stigma and bullying</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/abigail-saguy-239644.aspx?link_page_rss=239644</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/abigail-saguy-239644.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Abigail Saguy is associate professor and vice chair of sociology and associate professor of gender studies at UCLA. She is the author of &quot;What's Wrong with Fat?&quot; (2013, Oxford University Press). Her op-ed appeared on Oct. 12, 2012, in the... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=699257" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2012 14:54:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Matthew Lieberman</author><title>Thank you for not unfriending me this election season</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/thank-you-for-not-unfriending-239631.aspx?link_page_rss=239631</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/thank-you-for-not-unfriending-239631.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Matthew Lieberman is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology. He teaches social psychology and social cognitive neuroscience. This op-ed originally appeared on Oct. 8 in Psychology Today. 
 




Did you ever want to... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=699223" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2012 21:40:25 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Mike Rose</author><title>Students least likely to get college degree have most to gain</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/mike-rose-op-ed-239581.aspx?link_page_rss=239581</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/mike-rose-op-ed-239581.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Mike Rose is a professor in the Graduate School of Education &amp; Information Studies. He is the author of &quot;Back to School: Why Everyone Deserves a Second Chance at Education&quot; (New Press). This op-ed appeared originally in the Chronicle of... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=699162" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 15:35:43 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Samuel Culbert</author><title>Performance evals won't make teachers better</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/chicago-teachers-miss-the-point-239553.aspx?link_page_rss=239553</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/chicago-teachers-miss-the-point-239553.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Samuel Culbert is a professor at UCLA Anderson School of Management. He is the author of &quot;Get Rid of the Performance Review! How Companies Can Stop Intimidating, Start Managing &mdash; and Focus on What Really Matters.&quot; His... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=699119" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2012 22:44:43 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Razmig Sarkissian</author><title>Verbatim ─ Investing in higher ed, talking face-to-face, and going viral on zits</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-investing-in-higher-ed-239324.aspx?link_page_rss=239324</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-investing-in-higher-ed-239324.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.

 “Higher education must be viewed as a vital investment in our future, not just another drain on state... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=698955" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2012 17:18:42 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Glen MacDonald</author><title>A warming world: The data, not the deniers, are overwhelming</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/a-warming-world-the-data-not-the-239318.aspx?link_page_rss=239318</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/a-warming-world-the-data-not-the-239318.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Climate change expert Glen MacDonald notes this was the 329th consecutive month in which global temperatures have been above the 20th century average. <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=698931" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:25:34 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Daniel Oppenheimer</author><title>Eliminate the electoral college</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/eliminate-the-electoral-college-239280.aspx?link_page_rss=239280</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/eliminate-the-electoral-college-239280.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Associate Professor Daniel Oppenheimer of the UCLA Anderson School of Management co-authored this op-ed with Mike Edwards of the political blog Leftfielder.org. They authored the book Democracy Despite Itself: Why a System That Shouldn't... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=698887" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2012 18:26:28 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Chon Noriega</author><title>Romney's October surprise</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/chon-noriega-239267.aspx?link_page_rss=239267</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/chon-noriega-239267.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Chon Noriega is a professor in the Department of Film, Television and Digital Media at UCLA and the director of the Chicano Studies Research Center. This op-ed appeared Oct. 1, 2012, in the blog HuffPost Politics.
 

 
As the... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=698845" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2012 00:05:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alex Boekelheide/Luskin School of Public Affairs</author><title>Q&amp;A: Aging and the 2012 election</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/q-a-on-the-presidential-election-239263.aspx?link_page_rss=239263</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/q-a-on-the-presidential-election-239263.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[

Fernando Torres-Gil

With President Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney preparing to come out swinging in presidential debates that start Wednesday, one topic they will very likely spar over is the future of Medicare and Social... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=698843" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 23:23:35 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Dalia Dassa Kaye</author><title>How to tackle Iran</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/iran-239100.aspx?link_page_rss=239100</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/iran-239100.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Dalia Dassa Kaye is a senior political scientist at the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation and a 2011-2012 visiting fellow at the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations. This op-ed was posted on CNN World on Sept. 6.
 
As war talk... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=698622" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2012 23:25:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Razmig Sarkissian</author><title>Verbatim ─ green productivity, knockoff creativity and cold feet</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-green-productivity-knockoff-238949.aspx?link_page_rss=238949</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-green-productivity-knockoff-238949.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;It&rsquo;s easy to recognize when you&rsquo;ve been copied and feel like you&rsquo;ve... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=698428" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2012 20:30:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Jack Rothman</author><title>The election: agonizing choices</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/the-election-agonizing-choices-238893.aspx?link_page_rss=238893</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/the-election-agonizing-choices-238893.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Jack Rothman is professor emeritus at the UCLA School of Public Affairs. This op-ed was originally published in the Huffington Post on Sept. 13.  
 
 
 


 

 

 
It's taken time for me to... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=698321" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012 18:51:57 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Mike Rose</author><title>Heal the academic/vocational schism</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/heal-the-academic-vocational-schism-238434.aspx?link_page_rss=238434</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/heal-the-academic-vocational-schism-238434.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Mike Rose is a professor in the Graduate School of Education &amp; Information Studies and the author of, most recently, &quot;Back to School: Why Everyone Deserves a Second Chance at Education&quot; (The New Press, 2012). This op-ed was originally... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=697914" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:46:25 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Kal Raustiala and Christopher Sprigman</author><title>Apple vs. Samsung: Is copying theft or innovation?</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/apple-vs-samsung-is-copying-theft-238134.aspx?link_page_rss=238134</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/apple-vs-samsung-is-copying-theft-238134.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Kal Raustiala holds faculty appointments in the UCLA School of Law and the International Institute, where he is director of the Ronald W. Burkle Center for International Relations. He co-authored this op-ed, which was originally published Sept. 4... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=697532" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2012 16:49:43 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Chris Tilly and Julia Tomassetti</author><title>It's anti-American to be anti-union</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/it-s-anti-american-to-be-anti-238106.aspx?link_page_rss=238106</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/it-s-anti-american-to-be-anti-238106.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Chris Tilly is director of the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, which will publish State of the Unions 2012 on Labor Day. Julia Tomassetti is a doctoral student in sociology at UCLA. This op-ed was originally posted Aug. 30,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=697468" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2012 21:43:43 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Kelsey Sharpe</author><title>Verbatim ─ clot-removing device, vanishing bobcats and tech giants at war</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-clot-removing-devices-238058.aspx?link_page_rss=238058</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-clot-removing-devices-238058.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 are going from our first generation of clot-removing procedures, which were only moderately good in... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=697453" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2012 22:52:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Razmig Sarkissian</author><title>Verbatim ─ walnuts for virility, costly cramming and gay marriage</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-237823.aspx?link_page_rss=237823</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-237823.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 would say that it's time that we pay more attention to what the male eats around the time of... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=697193" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2012 23:56:10 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>David Shulman</author><title>Neither political party has solution to debt crisis</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/neither-political-party-has-solution-237822.aspx?link_page_rss=237822</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/neither-political-party-has-solution-237822.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[David Shulman, a retired Wall Street executive, is now a senior economist at the UCLA Anderson Forecast. This op-ed appeared Aug. 22 in US News and World Report.
 
&quot;Seek truth from facts,&quot; a then-40-year-old Mao Zedong slogan... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=697161" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2012 23:27:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Pamela Hieronymi</author><title>Don't confuse technology with college teaching</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/don-t-confuse-technology-with-237531.aspx?link_page_rss=237531</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/don-t-confuse-technology-with-237531.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Pamela Hieronymi is a UCLA professor of philosophy who, this year, is a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Her op-ed appeared Aug. 13 in the Chronicle of Higher... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=696824" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2012 23:41:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Brian Taylor and Martin Wachs</author><title>Lessons from first Carmageddon by the numbers</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/lessons-from-1st-carmageddon-by-237253.aspx?link_page_rss=237253</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/lessons-from-1st-carmageddon-by-237253.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA prof finds that during Carmageddon I, traffic didn't detour: in virtually every location examined, traffic levels were way down. Rather than threatening that Carmageddon II will be a mess, messages that Los Angeles can pull together again to make the closure go smoothly are more likely to resonate. <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=696536" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 16:38:11 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Jared Diamond</author><title>Romney hasn't done his homework</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/romney-hasn-t-done-his-homework-237204.aspx?link_page_rss=237204</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/romney-hasn-t-done-his-homework-237204.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Jared Diamond, a professor of geography at UCLA, is the author of the forthcoming book &quot;The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn From Traditional Societies?&quot; He is also the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning &quot;Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=696462" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2012 21:21:10 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Kelsey Sharpe</author><title>Verbatim ─ cataract surgery, boot camp for kids and more</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-cataract-surgery-boot-237193.aspx?link_page_rss=237193</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-cataract-surgery-boot-237193.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;This is elective surgery, and sometimes people think, &lsquo;I&rsquo;m too sick to have my cataracts... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=696451" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2012 19:01:29 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Chris Tilly</author><title>Can L.A. manage its budget without cutting public services?</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/can-l-a-manage-its-budget-without-237105.aspx?link_page_rss=237105</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/can-l-a-manage-its-budget-without-237105.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[

Chris Tilly is director of the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment and a professor of urban planning at the Luskin School of Public Affairs. This viewpoint piece appeared originally on July 25, 2012, in Los Angeles Magazine.... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=696302" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2012 18:26:42 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Adam Winkler</author><title>Nation's founders balanced gun rights with public safety</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/country-s-founders-balanced-gun-237079.aspx?link_page_rss=237079</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/country-s-founders-balanced-gun-237079.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 book, &quot;Gun Fight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America&quot; (W.W. Norton,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=696292" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:58:56 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Kelsey Sharpe</author><title>Verbatim ─ Sally Ride, spiral galaxies and the Colorado shootings</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-sally-ride-spiral-galaxies-237008.aspx?link_page_rss=237008</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-sally-ride-spiral-galaxies-237008.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'm in sympathy with her and understand her reluctance, but if you think about it, what she really did for... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=696198" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2012 21:12:50 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>