INDEX
2005
January 19,
2005 (Vol. 25, No. 8)
NEWS
BUREAU
BRIEFS
UCLA COLLEGE: Faculty in the UCLA College recently
rejected a proposal for a diversity requirement for undergraduates....
UCLA-VETERANS AFFAIRS: Can curry spice halt Alzheimer's
disease? That's what a new UCLA Veterans Affairs study with genetically
altered mice suggests.... ANDERSON AND LAW SCHOOLS: Kelly
Perdew, who has an M.B.A. and a law degree from UCLA, is the latest
winner of the popular NBC show, "The Apprentice."
CAMPUS
RESPONDS TO CRISIS
UCLA alumnus Eugene Kim and his wife, Faye Wachs, were
scuba diving in Thailand when the Indian Ocean tsunami sucked them
130 feet under the dark, swirling waters. Somehow, the Santa Monica
couple survived and went on to help injured victims on the devastated
Thai island where they were vacationing.
GOV.'S BUDGET
PLAN LIVES UP TO TERMS OF COMPACT
UC administrators are giving a qualified thumbs up
to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposed 2005-06 budget, which boosts
state funding to the university after four years of cuts and includes
money for enrollment growth and employee raises.
NEWS 2
CAMPUS
BRIEFS
PROGRESS ON ENRON LAWSUIT: The University of California,
lead plaintiff for investors in the Enron securities litigation,
has asked the court to approve a settlement with some of Enron’s
former directors.... NEW USE FOR SALIVA: Your saliva
may one day be used to detect cancer.... BE IN THE KNOW:
Staff Assembly is hosting a Town Hall meeting open to all
with Chancellor Albert Carnesale Jan. 27 in the Ackerman Union Second
Floor Lounge.... FRAT HOUSE SUSTAINS DAMAGE: A
towering eucalyptus tree crashed down on the roof of the Sigma Phi
Epsilon fraternity house at 611 Gayley on Jan. 9.
REGENTS
TO VOTE ON SEATING STAFF ADVISERS
UC administrators are giving a qualified thumbs up
to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposed 2005 06 budget, which boosts
state funding to the university after four years of cuts and includes
money for enrollment growth and employee raises.
'LIGHTER'
TAX BURDEN MEANS SMALLER PELL GRANTS
UCLA students who receive federal Pell Grants may get
less next fall or be dropped from the eligibility roll altogether
because of recent changes made by the U.S. Department of Education
to state tax tables.
DID YOU KNOW?
UC scientists and engineers have founded more than 300
R&D-intensive firms in California. In biotech alone, one in
three California R&D firms - and one in six publicly traded
firms nationwide - was founded by UC scientists.
YESTERDAY,
TODAY & TOMORROW
TOP SCIENCE STORIES: This month's issue
of Discover Magazine lists two separate discoveries by UCLA researchers
in its ranking of the top 100 science stories of 2004.... SAY
IT IN SPANISH: For the first time, Campus Human Resources
(CHR) co hosted a retirement planning seminar for employees whose
primary language is Spanish.... BON VOYAGE: The
universitywide Office of the Education Abroad Program (EAP) has
appointed three UCLA faculty members as directors of study centers
in Paris, Tokyo and Lyon, France.
PEOPLE
FACULTY HAILS
FROM THE HILL
Imagine a high-rise residence hall without its 959 student residents.
Except for the distant echo of a door slamming shut somewhere along
the long corridors, a strange silence filled six-story Sproul Hall
during the holiday break.
AFTER HOURS
- THE MINIATURIST
LESLIE EVANS: Web Site and Publications Manager, International
Institute
NAMES AND FACES
Hurrah: Walter
Zifkin ... Rachel Hunt ... Micah Hyman ... Kathryn Atchison.
Congrats: Carole Pateman
... Grace Song ... Kenny Burrell ... Tammy Duffy ... Cecilia Fannpn
and Julie Huffman.
CAMPUS
NURSING
PROF WIDENS YOUNGSTER'S HORIZONS
What do Professor of Nursing Chandice Covington, Samsung Electronics
and television talk show host Tony Danza have in common? All three
responded to the plight of an Albanian boy, Grej Pesjaka, who mysteriously
lost his sight three years ago. Grej (pronounced gray), then 8 years
old, had been playing soccer in his village when everything suddenly
went black.
STAFF USE TOOL
KIT TO SHARPEN WORK SKILLS
In her 16 years at UCLA, finance manager Sherri Faroky in Capital
Programs Health Sciences has seen major changes reshape the workplace.
"There's now more of a focus on teams and projects," she
noted.
WOODEN WEST WOWS
'EM
It was dark, wet and chilly at 6:30 on the morning of Jan. 10, but
inside the John Wooden Center Jack Gibbons was breaking a sweat.
'ROUND
AND ABOUT
SEX AND GENETICS: Are we born male or female? How
do we choose our mates?.... GARDEN VOLUNTEERS: The
Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden is seeking volunteer docents
for its public education program for schoolchildren and community
groups.... TUTORING PAYS OFF: BruinCorps, a student
program that provides tutors to youths who attend educationally
disadvantaged schools in Los Angeles, has received a $410,907 grant
from the national service organization AmeriCorps.... IT'S
ALL IN THE NUMBERS: Can physics help explain what makes
a book a bestseller? UCLA physicist and complex systems theorist
Didier Sornette thinks so.
VOICES
LESSONS FROM
ASIA'S TSUNAMI
The trouble began at sunrise, the day after Christmas. In a remote,
inhospitable corner of Sumatra, Indonesia, one of the many faults
in the earth started to break, as often happens under Los Angeles.
The fault was considered by experts as unlikely to foster a dangerous
earthquake. However, the earth continued to crack and slide for
five to 10 minutes, producing a magnitude 9 earthquake, the largest
in 40 years. Many villages and towns may have been badly damaged,
but what followed was much more terrible.
HIGH PAY FOR COLLEGE
CHIEFS IS JUSTIFIED
According to a recent article in the Chronicle of Higher
Education, a growing number of college presidents are on easy street,
despite the tough economic roads both public and private institutions
are traveling. The article is causing quite a stir in academia,
including at UCLA. It should be useful to put the pay issue of university
chiefs into an appropriate context.
WHAT'S ON
MY MIND: THINKING LIKE THE PRESIDENT
President Bush is convinced the war in Iraq is proceeding well
despite daily reports of a growing and deadly insurgency. For the
longest time he remained adamant that Saddam Hussein possessed ominous
weapons of mass destruction, though thousands of American troops
found nothing. He is resolute that tax cuts for the wealthiest are
enriching the poor. In the recent preelection debates, he couldn't
dredge up one real mistake he had made. Looking at this wall of
certitude and realizing that Bush's second inauguration as president
is upon us, my mind drifted back to a time when my son was 4 years
old.
OUR WORLD by CAROLE
CABLE
CLOSE UP
THE TREASURES
IN UCLA'S 'WONDER CABINET'
Victoria Steele, head of Special Collections at the Charles
E. Young Research Library, is showing off one of her favorite
items in the papers of the late Susan Sontag, who, the librarian
points out, “corresponded with absolutely everyone.”
UCLA COLLECTS!
BODIES OF KNOWLEDGE
UCLA is an important repository for an astounding range
of objects across myriad fields, from African masks to acupuncture
charts to Renaissance prints. But how do these disparate objects
contribute to UCLA's mission, and what can we learn by considering
them together for the first time?
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