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STAYING HEALTHY

Want to know how to achieve optimum health and wellness? Campus Human Resources has invited representatives to campus to talk about the various health-care programs. Presentations are free and take place 2-4 p.m. in the CHR Training Room, 2nd Floor, Wilshire Center. “PacifiCare’s Wellness Programs — Promoting and Rewarding Healthy Lifestyles” is set for May 11; “Blue Cross and Wellness — Health Promotion Tools for Members” for May 12; and “Kaiser Permanente Health Lifestyle Programs — Tools for Total Health” for June 8. Health Net’s program took place April 7. To enroll, go to http://chrsuns01.chr.ucla.edu:8881/m1/plsql/cat.page1. In the Display Courses box, click on “Display alphabetically” and find the program you wish to attend. To enroll, click on the program. When asked for payment type, select “check.” You will not be charged.

ELDERCARE

The UCLA Staff and Faculty Counseling Center is hosting two remaining workshops in its Eldercare and Aging series. On April 20, gerontologist Susan Hartenbaum will give an overview of long-term care coverage. On April 27, Rabbi David Wolpe of the Sinai Temple in Los Angeles will speak on “Making Loss Matter: Creating Meaning in Difficult Times.” Both are scheduled from noon to 1 p.m. at the Louis Jolyon West Auditorium at NPI. Call (310) 794-0245 if you wish to attend.

UCLA COLLEGE

April 24 marks the 90th anniversary of the beginning of an historical event that continues to elicit controversy and is still disputed by Turkey — the killing of 1.5 million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire between 1915 and 1918. In observance of the anniversary, Richard Hovannisian, UCLA’s Armenian Educational Foundation Professor of Modern Armenian History, organized an April 1 conference, “After Nine Decades: The Enduring Legacy of the Armenian Genocide,” where scholars shared their perspectives on this tragedy and genocide in general. Dedicating his life to the documentation of the massacre, Hovannisian has amassed 800 taped interviews with survivors.

E-WEEK FROLICS

Those wacky engineering students will be at it again this week as they gather in Bruin Plaza and the Court of Sciences for concrete bowling, liquid nitrogen ice cream, a demonstration of firefighting robots, an old-fashioned tug-of-war and their version of “American Idol.” To find out more about the annual E-Week events going on today through Friday, April 15, visit www.esuc.ucla.edu.