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| INDEX 2001
May 22, 2001 (Vol. 21, No. 18) NEWS BUREAU – THE COLLEGE – Andrea Rich, president and director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and a former UCLA teacher, administrator and executive vice chancellor for 20-plus years, received the 2001 Honorary Fellow Award of the College of Letters & Science at its annual awards dinner May 7. She will receive the UCLA Medal, the university's highest honor, at a commencement ceremony next month. – NEUROPSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE – A 33-year study of heroin addicts by UCLA researchers details the dire personal and social consequences of drug dependence and the heavy odds against permanent abstinence by long-term addicts. With lifelong abstinence difficult to achieve, the researchers are now stressing the setting of incremental treatment goals for heroin addicts. The study, published recently in the Archives of General Psychiatry, is the third follow-up of a group of 581 male heroin addicts. – ACROSS THE CAMPUS – Two faculty members, a choreographer from the Department of World Arts and Cultures and an economist, are among the 183 artists, scholars and scientists chosen as John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellows for 2001. The winners were selected from more than 2,700 applicants to share awards totaling $6.6 million. UCLA LEADERS HAIL VOTE TO RESCIND BANS NEW VISION FOR THE HAMMER STUDENTS RACE TO SIGN UP FOR SUMMER CLASSES NEWS 2 DATELINE UC SYSTEMWIDE – NEW TREASURER – The UC Board of Regents recently appointed David H. Russ, public markets managing director for the University of Texas Investment Management Company, its new treasurer and vice president for investments. – THE SENIOR BOOM – California must prepare now for the rapidly approaching point when the state's huge baby boom generation will begin surpassing age 65, according to a report by two leading gerontologists, UCLA's Fernando Torres-Gil of social welfare and UC Berkeley's Andrew Scharlach, along with a colleague at the University of Iowa. The report, "Strategic Planning Framework for an Aging Population," is part of a larger project that will examine existing state resources for aging and develop a plan to address future needs. – ON PAPER, ON SCREEN – The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded UC a $670,000 grant, following a smaller planning grant last June, for a two-year study to explore how scholars and libraries can best integrate and preserve collections of scholarly journals that are published in both print and digital formats. The project, which began in January, will systematically evaluate the factors that affect students' and faculty's reliance on and use of print and digital resources. 40 YEARS AGO GOV.'S REVISIONS ALTER UC FUNDING PICTURE CARNESALE TALKS ON KEY ISSUES WITH STAFF GORE SEEKS STUDENT INPUT ON NEW INITIATIVE ETHNIC GROUPS CLAMOR FOR REPARATIONS CITYLAB SPARKS PASSION FOR SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY PEOPLE STUDYING CULTURAL NUANCES OF ELDER ABUSE 15 SECONDS TAKING ACHES, KINKS OUT OF WORK NAMES AND FACES THE COLLEGE BRUIN WALK AND BEYOND – HEARTS AFLUTTER – With its apt name and reputation as the city's hottest dining spot to celebrate Feb. 14, Valentino seemed an ideal venue for Henry A. Kelly's first public celebration of what he maintains is the real Valentine's Day - May 3. Still, the English Department scholar who has traced the holiday's origins to a 1381 poem about birds choosing their mates on May 3 was shocked when restaurant owner Piero Selvaggio proposed serving quail pate. "We're here to celebrate birds - not eat them," Kelly protested. The celebrity chef promptly switched menus and came up with foods enjoyed by feathered friends. – HURRICANE AFTERMATH – The staggering death toll and massive destruction caused by Hurricane Mitch in 1998 left tens of thousands of Nicaragua's adolescents with chronic and severe post-traumatic stress disorder and depression, and few options for care, according to a new UCLA study. The Trauma Psychiatry Program study, published in this month's edition of the American Journal of Psychiatry, also found that the severity of these problems correlated directly with the severity of destruction, injury and death in the three Nicaraguan cities studied. – JACOBY APPOINTED TO CHAIR – Professor Sanford M. Jacoby has been appointed to the Howard Noble Chair in Management. A professor of human resources and organizational behavior, Jacoby has been with The Anderson School for more than 20 years and holds joint appointments with the School of Public Policy and Social Research and the History Department in the College of Letters & Science. – AN 'A' FOR PUBLIC SERVICE – Emile Sharifi led a fund-raising campaign to keep a South-Central Los Angeles medical clinic from closing. Abigail Valencia set up a computer lab and taught classes to homeless women. Sherry Yafai organized a mobile clinic to treat ailing homeless people in West Hollywood. The good works and giving spirits of these UCLA students were honored May 8 when they received the 2001 Charles E. Young Humanitarian Award for outstanding contributions and commitment to public service. GORE SEEKS STUDENT INPUT ON NEW INITIATIVE ETHNIC GROUPS CLAMOR FOR REPARATIONS CITYLAB SPARKS PASSION FOR SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY CLOSEUP: LIBRARY'S LITERARY RICHES INSPIRE SCHOLARS VOICES CAMPUS/INDUSTRY TIES POSE RISKS FREE TRADE PACT A BOON TO DRUG DEALERS WHAT'S ON MY MIND: |
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