INDEX
2004
February 10,
2004 (Vol. 24, No. 9)
NEWS
BUREAU
BRIEFS
UCLA COLLEGE: Patricia O’Brien, an award-winning
historian and accomplished administrator, has been named executive
dean of the UCLA College — the largest academic unit in the
University of California system.… ADMISSIONS: While
a record number of California transfer students have applied to
UC for fall 2004, the number of high school students applying for
seats in the next freshman class dropped for the first time since
fall 1993.... GSE&IS: After a long period of
decline, interest in politics is on the rise among the nation’s
students entering the ranks of freshmen, according to the results
of an annual survey.
CHANCELLOR URGES STAFF
TO BECOME ADVOCATES FOR UCLA
Hoping to stave off the deepest of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s
proposed cuts to the University of California, Chancellor Albert
Carnesale is urging UCLA staff to advocate on behalf of the university
in discussions with friends, neighbors and business and political
leaders.
GRAD STUDENT VILLAGE
TO HELP UCLA COMPETE
A village within Westwood Village rising on the southwest
edge of the campus will soon bring together a vibrant community
of graduate students drawn from the entire campus and the world.
NEWS 2
CAMPUS
BRIEFS
CELL 'TALK': Engineers at UCLA have discovered
a way to alter cell metabolism so that cells can artificially communicate
with each other.... LAB MANAGEMENT: The University
of California recently signed a one-year contract extension to continue
managing the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on behalf of
the U.S. Department of Energy.... CANCER ON THE NANOSCALE:
UCLA researchers have received a $1.5-million grant from
the W. M. Keck Foundation for a new interdisciplinary program that
will use nanotechnology to understand the origins of the majority
of solid tumor cancers.
DID
YOU KNOW?
Study abroad continues to attract a growing number of UCLA students.
Since Sept. 11, 2001, more Bruins — not fewer — have
traveled to more than 30 countries with UC’s Education Abroad
Program. In 2002-03, 582 UCLA students studied at centers around
the globe, compared to 502 in 2001-02, a 16% increase.
STATE TREASURER VISITS
State Treasurer Phil Angelides recently visited UCLA’s Center
for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) at the Henry Samueli School
of Engineering and Applied Science to hear firsthand of potential
effects of proposed reductions in state funding for 2004-05.
INAUGURAL INSTITUTES TO
ATTRACT LEGAL EXPERTS
Some of the world’s most experienced mergers and acquisitions
lawyers, judges, government officials and investment bankers will
gather Feb. 27-March 2 for the UCLA School of Law’s inaugural
institutes on mergers and acquisitions.
YESTERDAY,
TODAY & TOMORROW
EXHAUSTED BUT SILL STANDING: The hardiest
of 400-plus UCLA students were expected to stay on their feet for
26 hours this past weekend in support of children who are infected
with HIV or have AIDS.... HEEDING DISASTERS :
The UCLA Center for Public Health and Disasters is providing Head
Start programs with free disaster preparedness workbooks. Nearly
1 million children are enrolled nationwide in the Head Start programs....
NEW CENTER LAUNCHED: More than 200 campus
community members gathered Jan. 29 to celebrate the launch of the
Center for Community Learning — the UCLA College unit that
evolved out of the university’s long-standing programs to
create opportunities for undergraduates to learn through civic engagement.
PEOPLE
LINGUIST HAD WORDY ROLE
IN CLASSIC FILM
Rex Harrison almost made an enemy when he extinguished his cigarette
in Peter Ladefoged’s mouth.
PROBING THE FRUSTRATED MIND
To understand Edwin Shneidman, professor emeritus of thanatology,
the study of the phenomena of death, it’s important to know
two things.
15 SECONDS
PEGGY TESSIER: Manager,
Regulatory Affairs, Compliance, Education and Safety for the Department
of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.
NAMES AND FACES
Felicitations: M. Frederick Hawthorne
... Cardiothoracic Surgery ... Pediatric Cardiology ... A.W. Tu
... X.R. Chen ... A.L. Yuille ... S.C. Zhu ... Teofilo Ruiz.
Ovations: Donald Jenden ... Borun Center
for Gerontological Research ... Robert Bellanti ... Judith W. Boyette.
In Memoriam: Orville L. Chapman ... Richard
A. Goodman ... Samuel Kaplan ... Norma Stoddart.
CAMPUS
'ROUND
AND ABOUT
HOMAGE TO BLACK HISTORY:
The UCLA Bunche Center for African American Studies is hosting a
series of events during Black History Month.... HEAR THE
CANDIDATES: UCLA Government and Community Relations will
host an Assembly District 47 Candidates Forum Feb.... SUMMER
CAMP FOR SCHOLARS: Students who excel in math and science
can spend four weeks at UC Davis, Irvine or Santa Cruz this summer
in small classes studying astronomy, marine mammal biology, robotics
and more. ... SEEKING COMMUNITY PARTNERS: In
an effort to assist community-based organizations applying for funding,
the UCLA Center for Community Partnerships is sponsoring a free
proposal workshop 3-5 p.m. on Feb. 12 in the Mark Taper Auditorium
of the Central Public Library in downtown Los Angeles.
EXTENSION
COVERS WOW DESIGN WORLD
Fifteen years ago, InJu Sturgeon, UCLA Extension’s
creative director, approached the man who was then one of the most
revered names in graphic design with a request that even she considered
laughable for its audacity.
BULLIES
AND THEIR VICTIMS
You can spot them on any playground or school lunchroom. They revel
in pushing other kids around, assaulting their hapless victims with
a few well-chosen expletives, preferably in front of a crowd.
REGENTS
ON TOUR HEAR FROM EMPLOYEE, FACULTY
When nine members of the UC Board of Regents came to UCLA Feb. 4-5,
they touched base with a variety of campus constituencies to learn
about different activities that make the campus a bustling hub of
research and learning.
VOICES
UC NEEDS A NEW DEAL
WITH STATE
Based upon our perspective as chairs, we are united in our belief
that the newly proposed budgetary cuts and uncompensated differential
increases to graduate fees will gravely impact the UCLA College.
BUDGET HITS WORKERS HARD
In his 2004-05 budget proposal for California, Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger has singled out for elimination two programs within
the University of California: the Institute for Labor and Employment
(ILE) and outreach programs to increase minority admissions.
WHAT'S ON MY MIND:
WHAT'S THE ISSUE? FIND OUT
AND VOTE
In a systemwide election that begins Feb. 11 and ends March
3, some 3,000 UCLA employees will decide whether or not to be
exclusively represented by a union — the University Professional
and Technical Employees (UPTE), affiliated with the Communication
Workers of America (CWA).
OUR WORLD by
CAROLE CABLE
CLOSE UP
A PASSPORT TO A
BETTER FUTURE WORLD
Since coming to UCLA in 2001 to lead what was then the
Office of International Studies and Overseas Programs, Geoffrey
Garrett has worked to further UCLA’s long-standing eminence
in international and area studies.
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