| INDEX 2001
January 23, 2002 (Vol. 22, No. 9)
NEWS
AROUND CAMPUS
California Nanosystems Institute – Research by two professors of chemistry and biochemistry, James Heath, director of the California NanoSystems Institute, and Fraser Stoddart, UCLA Winstein Chair, was designated the "Breakthrough of the Year" by Science magazine… The College – NASA recently gave the go-ahead to the Dawn Mission, a UCLA-led project that will develop a spacecraft to orbit and study Ceres and Vesta, the two largest asteroids in the Earth's solar system… School of Dentistry – No-Hee Park, dean of the School of Dentistry, has been selected to receive the Korean Broadcasting System Distinguished Scholar award, given annually in each of five different fields to Korean-born individuals residing outside of Korea… UCLA Medical Center – Surgeons performed the first abdominal surgery in Southern California using robot Jan. 7 at the UCLA Medical Center…
HUME TO RETURN DOWN UNDER
UCLA Executive Vice Chancellor Wyatt R. Hume has accepted a position as the chief executive officer of the University of New South Wales (UNSW); his new position will begin in July on this year.
GOV. PROPOSES MILLIONS IN CUTS TO UC
For the second consecutive year, Gov. Gray Davis' budget proposal has fallen short of his Partnership Agreement with the University of California. His plan includes millions of dollars of cuts in targeted areas such as outreach, Internet2 and cost-of-living increases for staff and faculty for 2002-03.
SERIES SPOTLIGHT L.A. EXPERTS ON WORLD AFFAIRS
UCLA International Studies and a cable television company have teamed up to create a four-part television series that brings a West Coast voice to key issues in global affairs that have emerged since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks...
NEWS 2
CAMPUS NEWS BRIEFS
In Jeopardy – To serve the state's needs by 2010, the University of California must boost system wide graduate student enrollment by 50%, adding at least 11,000 students, and increase support for them, a university commission has concluded… Fast Track – Seven UC constructions projects needed to accommodate expanding student enrollment should be accelerated to help stimulate the state's economy, Gov. Gray Davis proposed recently… Honor Roll – The California Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement (MESA) program, administered by the UC, has been named one of the five most innovative public programs in the country…
DID YOU KNOW?
To date, Gold Shield, Alumnae of UCLA has distributed more merit-based scholarship money than any of UCLA's more than 100 alumni support organizations. Hundreds of students have been selected as Gold Shield Scholars on the basis of exceptional academic promise. Since 1939, the group has provided more than $1 million for merit-based scholarships.
FACULTY TO ASSESS CAMPUS CLIMATE
A key committee of faculty and administrators is distributing a survey -- perhaps the first of its kind and scope at UCLA -- to all faculty members to assess the academic climate and qualitative aspects of faculty life within the departments, academic units and the UCLA campus...
UC SUES ENRON OVER INVESTMENT LOSSES
The University of California joined a federal class-action lawsuit last month against 29 senior executives of the Enron Corporation and the national accounting firm of Arthur Andersen, LLP. The suit is pending in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas in Houston...
YESTERDAY, TODAY & TOMORROW – The Spirit of Giving... – Across campus, but especially in Murphy Hall, employees reached out last month to brighten the holidays of those less fortunate… ... and Receiving – The hallways and nursing stations of the oncology patient and outpatient units at the UCLA Medical Center and Plaza were aglow with dozens of glittery cutouts of angels, wreaths, Christmas tress and other holiday items – painstakingly made by children from Sunset Elementary Scholl in Hermiston, Oregon… Not got Milk? – UCLA and Finished researchers have identified a genetic mutation for lactose intolerance, a painful digestive condition that afflicts some 30-50 million North Americans, 75% of African Americans and 90% of Asian Americans…
PEOPLE
ADMISSIONS CHIEF FACES TOUGH TASK
To many prospective students and their parents, the admissions director of a major university is the single most influential person on campus. And for the first time in 23 years, the difficult task of selecting which students will be admitted to UCLA's coveted freshman and transfer classes will be led by a new face on campus...
HOLLYWOOD'S MASTER OF MOVEMENT
In a tiny dance studio in East Melnitz Hall, 13 students sat in a circle, eyes closed, caressing different objects: a candle, a piece of ribbon, a cracker, a Slinky. Jean-Louis Rodrigue, visiting assistant professor of acting, observed them closely. "Explore the shape, the weight, the texture," he encouraged. "What does that do to the relationship between you and the object?"
NAMES AND FACES
Kudos: Judea Pearl, Gary Blasi, Jeannie Oakes and John Rogers.
In Memoriam: Margaret Holden Jones, Robert M. Williams and Ralph Richardson
15 SECONDS
Patti Schifter Caravello, Reference Librarian and Instructional Services Coordinator, Young Research Library.
BRUIN WALK AND BEYOND
Learning from Step. 11 – The College of Letters and Science is offering 37 one-unit undergraduate seminars this quarter in the second series of classes that explore issues emerging from the terrorist attacks… In Memorian – The 74-year-old patient who received the world's fourth artificial heart at UCLA Medical Center died Dec. 12 due to persistent multiple-organ-system failure, 56 days after he received the device… Town Hall – UCLA Staff Assembly is inviting the campus community to a brown-bag Town Hall with Chancellor Albert Carnesale Jan. 30, from 11:50 a.m.-1 p.m., in the James West Alumni Center… Report Card – Former Secretary of State Warren M. Christopher will deliver the 22nd Bernard Brodie Distinguished Lecture on the Conditions of Peace today at 4.pm. at Korn Convocation Hall… Honoring Martin Luther King Jr. – To honor the legacy of Marin Luther King Jr., the Center for African American Studies and The Anderson School hosted on Jan. 17 a screening of "Roots – Celebrating 25 Years," a documentary special tat marks the 25th anniversary of the popular miniseries, followed by a panel discussion…
CAMPUS:
STUDENTS LEND HAND AT GROUND ZERO
When Jorja Prover, associate adjunct professor in the Department of Social Welfare and an expert in crisis intervention, traveled to New York shortly after Sept. 11 to train Red Cross personnel to counsel victims and families, she found that the counselors became so distraught they needed counseling themselves.
REGENTS ADOPT TUITION EXEMPTION POLICY
A University of California education will become more affordable to certain nonresident students as a result of a vote by the UC Board of Regents Jan. 17 at UCLA.
UCLA IN L.A.
COMMUNITY BULLETINS – Get Smart – Get your nomination in for the next Business Officer Institute for business officers with significant oversight of personnel, finance, facilities, academic programs and information technology… UCLA in LA – The Office of Government and Community Relations invites representatives of all campus programs with a community focus, run by faculty, staff and students, to join Executive Vice Chancellor Wyatt R. Hume "UCLA in LA: IT for Partnership Building." … Campus Event Planners – Campus conference, retreat and convention planners are invited to meet Jan. 30, 9-10a.m., at the Faculty Center with Matt Hourihan of the Los Angeles Convention and Visitors Bureau to learn about a new free service… Carter Chair Lecture – Dianna Chapman Walsh, president of Wellsley College, will deliver the 2002 Allen Murray Carter Chair Lecture on "College and the Search for Meaning in a Contentious World" at 4 p.m. Feb. 14 at the Faculty Center…
WEB WATCH:
The reference librarians at Charles E. Young Research Library have assembled a super-resource: an easy-to-use online collection of reference materials that's available only to the campus community. One click will get you to online dictionaries, encyclopedias, library catalogues, government information and handy research aids from reliable sources on 18 subjects and disciplines.
http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/yrl/reference/rco/refonline.htm
L.A.'S IMMIGRANT CHILDREN HEADED TOWARD POVERTY
As the nation's largest destination for immigrants in general and Mexican nationals in particular, Los Angeles needs to prepare quickly to pay the piper for the economic benefits of low-income labor, two UCLA sociologists are warning in a recently published book, Strangers at the Gates: New Immigrants in Urban America...
VOICES
SEMINARS ENRICH UNDERGRAD LEARNING
After the Sept. 11 catastrophe, UCLA faculty responded by teaching special classes to help our youngest undergraduate students make sense of the tragic events...
PAKISTAN'S CHIEF WALKS ON RAZOR'S EDGE
Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf has perhaps the toughest job of any leader in Asia today. On one side, he must deal with the perils of cracking down on terrorism and Islamic militancy within his own borders. On the other is the threat of confrontation and war lurking across those same borders...
WHAT'S ON MY MIND:THE SEVEN SIRENS: HONORING THEIR PROTECTORS
"I've always thought of firemen, policemen and other protectors as heroes, but never more so than that morning." Ginny King Supple discusses the magic of dining and chatting with firefighters and paramedics in their kitchen...
OUR WORLD By MATT HALL
CLOSEUP:
ARCHIVE OFFERS AERIAL VIEW OF HISTORY
Serendipity, fortified by a great deal of foresight, brought UCLA a priceless gift that fell from the skies one day in 1965. Had it not been for an alert UCLA geography graduate student who was working at the time for Aero Service Corporation, an invaluable visual record of the growth of America, a black-and-white history documented by aerial photographers who crisscrossed the country from 1921 to 1965 would have vanished altogether... |
