INDEX 2003
sEPTEMBER 23, 2003 (Vol. 24, No. 2)
NEWS
BUREAU BRIEFS
RESEARCH: The National Science Foundation reported
last month that research and development spending at universities and
colleges grew in 2001-02, increasing 9% over the previous year. …
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING: Deborah Estrin, professor of computer
science, has been named to Popular Science magazine’s annual “Brilliant
10,” young scientists doing extraordinary work. … TECHNOLOGY:
A National Science Foundation grant will help UCLA build a 256-node, 512-processor
computer cluster to advance research and education in plasma science.
... UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: The UC Board of Regents
selected UCLA doctoral student Jodi Lynette Anderson as the student regent
for 2004-05. Anderson is a graduate student researcher at the Higher Education
Research Institute and a teaching assistant in the education department.
DON'T LOSE SIGHT OF ISSUES
When it comes to California’s unprecedented gubernatorial recall
election, the only thing that’s certain — as the old cliché
goes — is that nothing’s certain.
REGENTS MULL ALL OPTIONS FOR DEEPER
CUTS
In an “everything on the table” discussion, University
of California leaders laid out more than two dozen options — ranging
from cutting employee salaries and raising student fees to scaling back
enrollment — for dealing with possible shortfalls in state funding
for 2004-05 during the Board of Regents meeting Sept. 17 in San Francisco.
CAMPUS BUGLERS HEED THE CALL TO
PLAY 'TAPS'
Whenever Jens Lindemann hears “Taps,” its haunting melody,
crystallized in only 24 notes, has the power to move him.
NEWS 2
CAMPUS BRIEFS
A NEW POST: Michael Karpf, UCLA’s associate vice
chancellor of hospital systems and chief executive officer of the medical
center, has accepted the post of executive vice president for health affairs
at the University of Kentucky Medical Center. ... TURNED AWAY:
Because of deep budget cuts, the University of California was unable to
consider the applications of 1,500 community college transfer students
and 100 freshmen seeking winter admission to UC Riverside, Irvine, Santa
Cruz and Santa Barbara. … PATH TO GRAD SCHOOL: UCLA’s
Academic Advancement Program has won a $1.4-million TRIO grant from the
U.S. Department of Education to establish the UCLA McNair Research Scholars
Program to identify, mentor and prepare students from populations severely
underrepresented in graduate programs and the professoriate for graduate
study and academic careers.
DID YOU KNOW?
Watch where you park. Last year, 83,483 citations were issued on and around
the campus, the vast majority for illegal parking, according to a campus
crime report. While the UCPD wrote 1,674 parking tickets, Parking Services
employees handed drivers 80,224 tickets for parking violations.
CLOSING IN ON GOAL
Marking the fifth consecutive year in which UCLA’s gift total has
topped $250 million, Campaign UCLA received $278.1 million in private
gifts and grants during 2002-03.
UCLA 4 U: MARS MANIA BRINGS OUT
PLANET GAZERS
Nearly 300 people eager to take advantage of Mars’ unusually
close proximity to Earth stood patiently in long lines atop the 8th-floor
roof of the Math Sciences Building on Sept. 3 to peer through five telescopes
at the Red Planet and other celestial objects.
YESTERDAY, TODAY & TOMORROW
ONE PILOT'S PLEA: It was a harrowing end to a vacation
in Italy for Rosemary Chiaverini, who works in Development for the International
Institute. ... FACULTY GIVE IT AN 'A': Virtually every
measure of academic excellence has grown stronger under the comprehensive
review policy, according to a faculty report presented to the Board of
Regents on Sept. 18. ... PATENT INFRINGED: Microsoft
Corp. improperly put patented Web browser technology into its Internet
Explorer, helping the computer giant to win critical market share from
rival Netscape Navigator, a federal jury in Chicago decided Aug. 11 in
a landmark verdict.
PEOPLE
NEW CHAIR ADVOCATES SHARED INFORMATION
With a recall election approaching, a new leader at the helm of the University
of California and faculty returning to campus to face the harsh realities
of a tight budget year, Clifford Brunk is, in his words, in for “an
interesting year” as chair of the Academic Senate.
SHE PATROLS THE UCLA BEAT
No one was more surprised than Debbie Mills to hear that she had been
named the UCLA Police Department’s Officer of the Year for 2002.
15 SECONDS
GAT MACDONALD
Executive Director, UCLA Early Care and Education
NAMES AND FACES
Congrats: Samuel Kaplan ... Hillel Laks ...
Leonard Apt ... William D. Warren.
Kudos: David Sklansky... Eric W. Fonkalsrud...
Herbert Kawahara.
Take Note: Sherin Devaskar ... Edward McCabe
... Pinchas Cohen ... Yvonne Bryson ... Christopher Denny ... Martin Martin
... Isidro Salusky.
CAMPUS
'ROUND AND ABOUT
VIRUS HUNTERS: UCLA AIDS Institute scientists have devised
a new technique to drive hibernating HIV from its hiding places in the
body. ... GARDEN OF KNOWLEDGE: The Mildred E. Mathias
Botanical Garden is seeking volunteer docents for its public education
program for schoolchildren and community groups. ... BE OUR GUEST:
Anyone on campus who plans events, meetings or conferences off
campus is invited to attend the Event Planners Trade Show Oct. 15 from
11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the second-floor lounge at Ackerman Union.
... EIGHT-CLAPPERS: Mark your calendar for Faculty and
Staff Appreciation Day at the UCLA vs. California football game on Oct.
18 at the Rose Bowl. ... SPREAD THE JOY: Make a difference
in the lives of young patients by purchasing holiday cards that will benefit
the Mattel Children’s Hospital at UCLA.
DISEASE DETECTION WITH A SINGLE
MOLECULE
Physicists at UCLA have created a first-of-its-kind nanoscale sensor that
uses a single molecule less than 20 nanometers long — more than
1,000 times smaller than the thickness of a human hair — as its
primary detector.
'TREES OF LIFE' SPROUTS GRASSROOTS
ARTWORK
A current exhibition at the Fowler Museum, “Ceramic Trees of Life:
Popular Art from Mexico,” has developed strong roots in several
Los Angeles communities and borne fruit in the form of neighborhood art
projects.
VOICES
PROP. 54 SUPPORTS IGNORANCE,
NOT PRIVACY
Few call Proposition 54 on the Oct. 7 recall ballot by its official
name: “Classification by Race, Ethnicity and National Origin.”
Proponents call it the Racial Privacy Initiative; opponents, the Information
Ban.
THE PRICE OF FREETRADE IS
DEAD WOMEN
The North American Free Trade Agreement has created an epidemic
of murdered women on the U.S.-Mexico border. Since May 1993, around
the time that NAFTA was being signed and implemented, the first six
bodies of what would become a heinous crime wave of kidnapped, tortured,
raped, mutilated and murdered women were found on the outskirts of Ciudad
Juárez, just across the border from my hometown, El Paso, Texas.
WHAT'S ON MY MIND:
HIS LOVE OF BRUIN FOOTBALL: IT'S
MORE THAN JUST A GAME
Karl Dorrell and I go way back. As a student in the early ’80s,
he was on the field at the Rose Bowl, catching passes for UCLA. As a
student in the early ’80s, I was in the stands at the Rose Bowl,
watching him catch passes.
OUR WORLD by CAROLE CABLE
CLOSE UP
COLLABORATORS FOR A
BETTER LOS ANGELES
The Center for Community Partnerships (CCP), the operational arm
of the UCLA in LA initiative, has announced the inaugural recipients
of its Community Partnership Grants for faculty, staff and graduate
students.
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