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Experience the energy that UCLA Recreation offers by signing up or renewing your membership now. There’s no initiation fee. A wide range of facilities and activities are available, conveniently located for campus employees. Stay connected, energized and fit with any one of UCLA Recreation’s family memberships, customized memberships or classic packages intended to promote health, balance and community. UCLA Recreation memberships can be purchased at Membership and Information Services, located on the second floor of the John Wooden Center. Payroll deduction is available for most employees. To explore what UCLA Recreation has to offer, visit www.recreation.ucla.edu.

SCHOOL SUCCESS

High school graduates from immigrant families succeed in college at similar rates as American-born peers with similar economic and ethnic backgrounds, a study by researchers from the Neuropsychiatric Institute has shown. Students from immigrant families also are more likely to support their families while in school. In addition, high school graduates from immigrant families with higher incomes and higher levels of parent education achieved the highest success in college. This finding, which was in an article in the Journal of Research on Adolescence, helps explain why Latin American children have lower levels of success than East Asian children. “Our overall findings are encouraging,” said Andrew J. Fuligni, the paper’s co-author and senior research scientist at NPI’s Center for Culture and Health. “But there are signs that certain segments of the immigrant population, particularly those from Latin America, need more assistance to participate fully in educational and related economic opportunities available in the United States.”

DOUBLE YOUR PLEASURE

Plan now to secure your seats for future touchdowns and slam dunks. Current UCLA faculty and staff members qualify for an exclusive package deal that includes season tickets to 2004 UCLA football and 2004-05 UCLA men’s basketball for $499. This represents a savings of 20% compared to buying season tickets separately. In addition, the first 100 faculty and staff members to take advantage of this offer will be given a free UCLA Recreation membership for one quarter. The package deal is available only through July 1. Call the UCLA Central Ticket Office at (310) UCLA-WIN to order your tickets.

NEW STROKE THERAPIES

The UCLA Stroke Center recently launched a new program funded by a five-year, $5-million National Institutes of Health grant to integrate research and education to develop innovative therapies for acute ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke. The project, called the Specialized Program of Translational Research in Acute Stroke, will promote rapid diagnosis and effective new treatments for stroke. “The mission ... is treating stroke faster and better,” said Jeffrey L. Saver, neurology director of the stroke center. UCLA is among four centers nationwide participating in the NIH grant. The program will focus on three major stroke research projects, including one involving a multidisciplinary alliance of investigators from a number of specialties.