UCLA in LA partnerships in the spotlight
BY LETISIA MÁRQUEZ
UCLA Today
Four faculty members and their community partners who have worked
together to enhance the quality of life for many in Southern California
are winners of the 2004-05 Ann C. Rosenfield Distinguished Community
Partnership Prize, awarded by the UCLA Center for Community Partnerships.
So far, the center has given out more than $1.6 million to fund
65 partnership projects that benefit the community in many different
ways, from assisting struggling businessowners in the Vernon-Central
district to helping young people break out of the cycle of gang
violence.
“The Rosenfield Prize represents the full range of possibilities
that can occur when members of the UCLA family actively engage the
broader Los Angeles community to address issues of concern to our
region’s residents,” said Associate Vice Chancellor
of Community Partnerships Franklin D. Gilliam Jr. “The 2004-05
recipients represent the ideal of merging campus knowledge with
community knowledge, once again establishing UCLA as a public resource.”
In a ceremony Jan. 27 at the J.D. Morgan Athletics Center, Chancellor
Albert Carnesale congratulated the awardees:
• Kenneth Chuang, assistant clinical professor of psychiatry
and biobehavioral sciences, and the Venice Family Clinic. Working
with the clinic, Chuang started the Refugee Trauma Clinic, a comprehensive
medical service for torture survivors.
• Robert Nakamura, professor of Asian American studies and
film and televisionion, and Visual Communications. In 1970, as a
UCLA graduate student, Nakamura formed Visual Communications (VC),
the first Asian/Pacific-American media group in the country, to
combat racial stereotyping in film and television.
• Chon Noriega, director of the Chicano Studies Research Center
and professor of theater, film and television, and Self-Help Graphics.
They are working together to research, collect and preserve Chicano/Latino
arts. Extending beyond this project, Noriega has led a broad array
of initiatives to establish and nurture a partnership between UCLA
and community-based groups in the arts.
• Paul Ong, professor of urban planning, and Leadership Education
for Asian Pacifics (LEAP). Ong has worked with LEAP to increase
public awareness of the socioeconomic needs of low-income Asian/Pacific
Americans in Los Angeles.
Also honored at the event was Assemblyman Mark Ridley-Thomas (D-Los
Angeles), who received the first UCLA Center for Community Partnerships
Distinguished Community Leader Award.
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