| INDEX 2002
April 23, 2002 (Vol. 22, No. 14)
NEWS
AROUND CAMPUS
GSE&IS– The Center for the Study of Evaluation and its National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing recently won several major awards, totaling nearly $15 million… Anderson School – For 50 years the UCLA Anderson Forecast has been among the most widely followed economic forecasts in California… Technology – A live broadcast carried March 9 by UC San Diego-based UCTV and webcast by UCLA's Office of Instructional Development (OID) helped to link an international group of faculty medical experts at UCLA with hundreds of other physicians meeting simultaneously in 13 cities nationwide…
HOUSING FOR NEXT DECADE
With on-campus student housing currently operating at 125% capacity and many more students expected to enroll by 2010, university-owned housing is quickly filling up.
CAMPUS TAKES BIG LEAP TOWARD SMALL SEMINARS
Beginning this fall, faculty in the College of Letters and Science and the professional schools will be teaching a broad range of small undergraduate seminars, primarily for freshmen.
UNION WORKERS GET TRAINING IN LEADERSHIP
It was an opportunity that home-care worker Eleanor Martinez couldn't pass up, a chance to study U.S. labor history, learn about health and safety issues and improve her public speaking skills on the UCLA campus.
NEWS 2
DATELINE UC SYSTEMWIDE
SAT Scrutinized – The UC Board of Regents discussed the pros and cons of dropping the SAT I while meeting March 12-14 in San Francisco… Applications Boost – California's high school students are participating in encouraging numbers in the UC's 2-year-old Eligibility in the Local Context (ELC) program, according to a new report… Babies and Tenure – Faculty women who have children early in their careers are less likely to achieve tenure than their male counterparts, according to a new UC Berkeley study of the national scene…
DID YOU KNOW?
UCLA has academic linkages that span the globe. The university has more than 170 formal international agreements with nearly 160 institutions in 44 countries. These agreements allow faculty and students to conduct international studies research and participate in exchanges, among other benefits.
REVITALIZING L.A.'S FILM INDUSTRY
Headlining a UCLA Anderson Forecast conference that was focused on the entertainment industry, Los Angeles Mayor Jim Hahn reassured industry leaders and business representatives attending the March 27 event that he will do whatever he can to help lure movie and television production back to Los Angeles.
STAFF AIDS STRANDED CLASS
When 102 sixth graders and 19 parents and teachers left their homes in Scottsdale, Ariz., before dawn on March 13 bound for L.A., little did they realize their class trip was about to turn disastrous. Fortunately, Mike Deluca, Director of UCLA's Cultural and Recreational Affairs, was able to mobilize his staff and strategize with Housing administration to save the day.
YESTERDAY, TODAY & TOMORROW – Map of the Molecule – UCLA paleobiologist J. William Schopf and colleagues have substantiated the biological origin of the earliest known cellular fossils, which are 3.5 billion years old… Seeking Autism Cure – Daniel Geschwind, assistant professor of neurology and director of UCLA?s Neurogenetics Program, has received a five-year, $6-million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to expand scientific and community groups' efforts to identify the genes that cause autism… New Head of Human Resources – Lubbe Levin will join UCLA as the new assistant vice chancellor for Campus Human Resouces, effective April 15…
PEOPLE
TUNING INTO MUSIC'S CULTURAL MILIEU
As a child, Susan McClary actually looked forward to her weekly piano lessons, so much so that she assumed she would become a concert pianist. That is, until she landed a job as an accompanist to fellow music majors at Southern Illinois University.
ART HISTORIAN ADDS ROLE AS ACTOR
It's not unusual for an academic to claim to be a Renaissance man. But UCLA art historian David Kunzle is actively pretending to be a trio of characters from that era.
NAMES AND FACES
Congratulations: Barbara Levey; Jason Cong
Applause: Alessandro Duranti; David H. Solomon; Eli Yablonovitch
Elected: Edward R.B. McCabe; Clifford A. Ramirez
In Memoriam: Leslie P. Dornfeld
15 SECONDS
Mariko Bird, Assistant Director, Center for Japanese Studies
BRUIN WALK AND BEYOND
Sharing his spirit – Dolores Huerta, the nation's most prominent Chicana labor leader and co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America (UFW), will receive UCLA's César E. Chávez Spirit Award, named in honor of the late labor leader and civil rights activist… Response to challenge – The Principal Leadership Institute, part of UCLA's Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, has received a $100,000 grant from the William Randolph Hearst Foundation… 10 years later – Noted civil rights expert Lani Guinier will deliver the 13th annual Thurgood Marshall Lecture on Law and Human Rights on April 8… Nobel Laureate – José Saramago, the 1998 Nobel Laureate in literature, will open a series of free public events with a Regents' Lecture April 22 on "This World of Globalized Injustice" at 4 p.m. in the International Room in Bradley International Hall…
CAMPUS:
FACULTY DEPICT RACIAL INJUSTICE ON FILM
With two provocative tales of race and injustice in California shot from behind different perspectives, one from behind barbed wire and another from a migrant workers' camp, two professors in the Department of Film, Television and Digital Media are making waves with hard-hitting documentaries that were recently screened at the Sundance Film Festival.
COMMUNITY BULLETINS
Service credit for faculty – Last year, the University of California regents approved a program to provide service credit to certain eligible UCRP members in recognition of past time worked in temporary positions… ... and for Staff – The last group of staff eligible to receive an automatic allocation also were notified last month. Check the staff booklet on the One-time UCRP Service Credit Allocation Program at www.ucop.edu/bencom if you believe you are eligible… Undergrads Honored – Two UCLA undergraduate researchers, one who is analyzing the Marshall Plan and another who is studying an element of nerve regeneration, were among the UC students honored March 19 at the annual UC Day in Sacramento…
UCLA RESOURCE CENTER BUILDS NEW LINKS TO VALLEY
For Pacoima residents, seeing youth transform graffiti-laden walls into historical murals is a welcome change in a city plagued by crime and socioeconomic struggles. For youth, creating murals is a way to improve their community, build self-esteem and promote cultural awareness.
VOICES
JURY SHOULD HAVE FOUND YATES INSANE
Andrea Yates drowned her young children in the family bathtub. Her terrible acts demanded an explanation and her trial provided one. She suffered from a well-documented case of sever postpartum depression. So why did the Texas jury find her sane?
ARGENTINA: A NATION ON FIRE
The Argentine uprising that toppled the democratically elected government of Fernando de la Rua on Dec. 19 had the whole world witnessing a rapid-fire transition of five presidents within days, highlighting Argentina's political and economic instability.
WHAT'S ON MY MIND: TAKE A TOUR AMONG THE STARS AND DISCOVER UCLA'S PLANETARIUM
OUR WORLD By MATT HALL
CLOSEUP:
TRAINING TOMORROW'S CAMPUS LEADERS
UCLA middle managers have found a way to fulfill their aspirations through the Professional Development Program, a rigorous, yearlong training initiative offered by Campus Human Resources. |
