UCLA Today: archive 000111

BUREAU BRIEFS
Dashew International Center– Winston C. Doby, who was appointed vice president of educational outreach for the University of California last year, will receive the 2002 Jacoby International Award May 8… Jonsson Cancer Center – An experimental vaccine for brain cancer has shown promising results in preliminary investigations at the Jonsson Cancer Center… Archaeology – An archaeological team led by a UCLA graduate student has found thousands of mummies, most from the Inca culture some 500 years ago, in an ancient cemetery under a shantytown outside Lima, Peru…

TOP TEACHERS HAILED BY THEIR PEERS, STUDENTS
Law, mathematics, English, medicine and biochemistry -- the recipients of the 2001-'02 Distinguished Teaching Awards run the gamut in terms of expertise. What these winners share, however, is the admiration and respect of students, colleagues, department chairs and alumni.

HAS LOS ANGELES HEALED?
Over the last decade, dozens of UCLA social scientists, urban planners, demographers, epidemiologists, ethnic studies researchers and other scholars have combed through the rubble of the 1992 Los Angeles civil disturbance for clues as to what fueled the explosion that rocked a city and a nation to its core. But 10 years later, experts diverge as to whether significant improvements have occurred.

UNITED WAY HELPS SECONDARY VICTIMS OF TERROR
The repercussions of Sept. 11 continue to shatter the lives of Los Angeles-area individuals and families who have become secondary victims of terrorism after they were laid off or when the safety-net charities they depend on saw donors' contributions plummet.

DATELINE UC SYSTEMWIDE
UC Riverside Chancellor – The UC Board of Regents discussed the pros and cons of dropping the SAT I while meeting March 12-14 in San Francisco… Israel Pullout – 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… Weed Killer Suspect – 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 led the nation, tied with Columbia and Wisconsin, in faculty recipients of Guggenheim Fellowships for 2002. The three universities each had five faculty winners of the renowned awards.

SLIGHT DIP IN FROSH ADMITS
UCLA has admitted approximately 10,366 prospective freshmen for fall 2002, a slight decrease from the total number admitted last year. However, this year's enrollment target of 4,200 undergraduates remains unchanged from fall 2001, admissions officials said.

LEGAL SCHOLAR: RETHINK ISSUES OF RACE AND POWER
Lani Guinier, delivered the 13th annual Thurgood Marshall Lecture at a dinner hosted by UCLA's Center for African American Studies April 8 at Covel Commons and called for a new way to approach race and power that cannot be found in the courts.

YESTERDAY, TODAY & TOMORROW – Improving 911 – Electrical Engineering Professor Ali H. Sayed and his research group are creating technology that will enable medical personnel to use the nation?s wireless phone network to pinpoint the location of someone in distress… Managing Parkland – An international symposium held at UCLA April 2-4 brought together resource managers and conservation biologists from Southern California and South Africa to discuss issues and challenges of managing parklands at the urban/wildland interface adjacent to the large metropolitan areas of Los Angeles and Cape Town… Back to School – UCLA will host a fellowship program April 29 to May 1 for 15 journalists selected to participate in its far-reaching study of the social impact of the Internet…

ACTIVE RETIREE KEEPS TABS ON HIS PEERS
Moses A. Greenfield -- professor emeritus of radiological sciences, founder of the medical physics Ph.D. program at UCLA and winner of the prestigious William D. Coolidge Award -- is not one to retire quietly.

RESEARCHER FINDS HEALING IN GREEN TEA
From a "barefoot doctor" to a professor in the School of Public Health and a member of the Jonsson Cancer Center, Zuo-Feng Zhang is still preventing disease as a cancer molecular epidemiologist.

NAMES AND FACES
Appointments: Chon Noriega; Daniel Hollander.
Applause: Linda Rosenstock; The Anderson School
Kudos: Margaret Cunningham; Cindy Burt; Ellen Wilson; Bruce Gerratt
In Memoriam: Nobuyuki Kawata; Nobu McCarthy; Victor D. Newcomer; Gerald H. Shure.

15 SECONDS
Alison Moore, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine

CAMPUS AUTHORS ENLIGHTEN WITH WRITTEN WORD
Ray Bradbury, A. Scott Berg, Maya Angelou, Mary Higgins Clark, David Halberstam, Oliver Stone, Gore Vidal and UCLA?s own Jared Diamond and Joyce Appleby are some of the literati who are expected to lure hundreds of thousands to campus April 27-28 for the seventh annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Over the last year, faculty and staff authors have been both prolific and wide-ranging in the subjects they?ve chosen to illuminate.

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.

HOW WELL HAVE WE DONE 10 YEARS AFTER?
The 10th anniversary of the 1992 civil unrest in Los Angeles should be cause for the examination of many issues: the endemic corruption and abuses of the LAPD, the continued devastation of our inner cities by economic globalization and capital flight, the Draconian public policies that have failed to address societal poverty and inequality, and the competition for scarce resources that often manifests itself as racial and ethnic conflict...Where are we 10 years later? What has the UCLA community done to address the issues that led to the unrest?...

PRIME TIME FOR LATINS?
Despite well-documented growth of the Latino community as a political and market force within the United States, Latinos enter the 21st century with a lower level of media access and representation than during the civil-rights era. Portrayals of Latinos in continuing roles on prime-time television have fallen from 3% to 2% since 2000, and Latinos account for less than 2% of the executive positions in major studios and networks.

WHAT'S ON MY MIND: AN INNOCENT LIFE LOST AMIDST THE ANGRY RHETORIC OF WAR
Last week, I lost my favorite aunt. But she was far more than that. She was a beloved wife, sister, mother, grandmother, friend and guardian -- some, including myself, would go as far as to call her an angel... I plead to all world leaders to take a stand and force an end to the religious wars, before the life of another innocent, beloved father, mother, sister, brother, aunt, uncle, grandmother or grandfather is lost.

CLOSEUP:
STUDENTS GET ON INSIDE TRACK IN D.C.
For some students, Sept. 11 changed everything. Then there are others who refused to let it. Among them are 30 Bruin undergrads who are participating in UCLA's Quarter in Washington Program this spring, despite what they saw on TV newscasts when the Pentagon was attacked or when the anthrax scare was at its height..