INDEX
2004
June 29, 2004
(Vol. 24, No. 16)
NEWS
BUREAU
BRIEFS
SCHOOL OF LAW: Michael H. Schill, professor
of law at New York University and director of the Furman Center
for Real Estate and Urban Policy, has been selected as dean of the
School of Law, effective Aug. 1, subject to approval by the UC Board
of Regents.... UCLA COLLEGE: Emil Reisler, a longtime
academic leader at UCLA and a renowned biochemist whose work explores
the functioning of proteins at the molecular level, has been named
dean of life sciences in the UCLA College.... UCLA LIBRARY:
The UCLA Library will launch its new online catalog system
on July 7.... UCLA STAFF: Save the date of July
29 for the first annual All-Staff Picnic at UCLA, to be held 11:30
a.m.-1:30 p.m. in Dickson Court.
$250M GOAL TO RECRUIT, RETAIN
THE VERY BEST
Building on UCLA’s long-term efforts to maintain its momentum
as a leading research university that powers the economy and provides
direct societal benefits, UCLA’s leaders have launched an
ambitious plan to raise $250 million over the next five years to
help recruit and retain the very best faculty and students.
UCLA
TIGHTENS DATA SECURITY
Campus authorities have intensified efforts to protect and heighten
awareness about personal and sensitive data on computers after a
laptop was stolen from a locked van at a UCLA blood drive last November
and another laptop was pilfered from a UCLA Healthcare financial
office in late May.
$25M
GIFT TO DEEPEN UNDERSTANDING OF THE BRAIN
Terry S. Semel, CEO of Yahoo! Inc., and his
wife, Jane Bovingdon Semel, founder of a nonprofit production company
that addresses public-health issues through entertainment, will
donate $25 million to endow UCLA’s Neuropsychiatric Institute.
NEWS 2
CAMPUS
BRIEFS
FINAL COUNT: The results of the 2004 Academic Senate
elections are in.... RESEARCH LECTURESHIP: The
Academic Senate has selected two Faculty Research Lecturers for
2004-05.... NEW LEADERSHIP: Staff Assembly recently
announced the results of an election for the 2004-05 Executive Board....
AND THE WINNERS ARE ...: The staff of UCLA Today
wants to thank everyone who took the time to complete our readership
survey.
DID YOU KNOW?
UCLA’s cooling requirements last year were equivalent to melting
an ice cube measuring more than 500 feet on each side (larger than
the Pauley Pavilion complex and 50 stories tall). To accomplish
this heat transfer, more than 10 billion gallons of chilled water
had to be pumped through the system.
BUILDING A BIGGER NEST
EGG
By next year, UCLA employees will be able to take advantage
of a new voluntary savings plan that will help them put together
a bigger retirement nest egg in a tax-deferred account.
YESTERDAY,
TODAY & TOMORROW
24-KARAT RESEARCHER:Astronomer Andrea Ghez,
who has done groundbreaking work on the origin and early life of
celestial bodies, has been awarded the 2004 Gold Shield Faculty
Prize for Academic Excellence.... NEW FUSION CENTER:
UCLA and the University of Maryland have been selected by the U.S.
Department of Energy (DOE) to host a new, $6.4-million Fusion Science
Center that will bring together scientists from applied mathematics
and theoretical and computational plasma physics.... STANFORD
PROF TO HEAD LAB: The UC Board of Regents recently named
Steven Chu, professor in the physics and applied physics departments
at Stanford University and a co-winner of the Nobel Prize in physics,
the new director of the UC-managed Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
PEOPLE
NOTHING IS BEYOND
THIS COUNSELOR'S REACH
Al Aubin, it seems, knows everyone. Or maybe it’s more accurate
to say everyone on campus seems to know Al Aubin.
LATE-IN-LIFE BRUIN TAKES THE
LEAD
Early retirement in 2001 from a demanding job as vice president
of research and development for a health-care system has liberated
Eleanor Brewer.
15 SECONDS
PATRICK BURKE: Adaptive
Technology Specialist, Academic Technology Services.
NAMES AND FACES
Cheers: Aimée Dorr ... Calvin C.
Moore ... Susan Cochran ... Don Nakanishi ... Alfred Herrera ...
Rhonda Younger ... Sophia Kozak ... Dave Miller.
Hats Off: Jerry and Joy Monkarsh ... Angela
Mazer ... Sean Patrick Klein ... Brian Hong-An Tang ... Sally Dickerson
... C. Jason Throop ... Charles Hiroshi Garrett ... UCLA Center
for Community Partnerships ... Hope Street Family Center.
In Memoriam: John McDougall Christie.
CAMPUS
'ROUND
AND ABOUT
PARKING FEES GO UP:
Various campus parking fees will go up July 1 to help cover increases
in debt for new structures and increased costs related to operating
and maintaining existing facilities.... NCAA CHAMPIONS:
UCLA is ending this academic year with NCAA team championships
in four sports, more than any other school in the nation: women’s
gymnastics, softball, women’s golf and women’s track
and field.... CURTAIN TO RISE: Amidst mounds of
dirt and earthmovers inside the gutted Geffen Playhouse, Producing
Director Gil Cates broke ground June 10 for a $17-million project
to renovate the interior of the 1929 structure and to build the
125-seat Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater on an adjacent lot.... SUMMER
HIATUS: The BruinGo! Transit Pass Program with the Big
Blue Bus and Culver CityBus is currently taking a summer break and
will resume on Sept. 20.
STUDENTS
LEARN TO RESTORE PEACE IN SCHOOLS
The seven sixth-grade girls at Malibu High School used to be such
inseparable friends that the boys in their class nicknamed them
“the Mafia.”
A
MAGICAL PLACE TO MEET
On a bluff high above the Pacific Ocean, where
the shoreline sweeps inland to form a secluded bay, sits a Cape
Cod-style cottage filled with the treasures and personal mementos
of an extraordinary couple, psychiatrists Philip and Genevieve May.
VOICES
REAGAN: THE MEDIUM WAS THE
MESSAGE
With his gift of grabby gab, Ronald Reagan was master and commander-in-chief
of getting his message out over any medium.
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