INDEX
2005
May 10, 2005
(Vol. 25, No. 14)
NEWS
BUREAU
BRIEFS
HONORS: Four UCLA faculty members were elected
May 3 to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors
that can be accorded to a U.S. scientist or engineer.... UCLA
AIDS INSTITUTE: The UCLA AIDS Institute will be the home
of a new HIV/AIDS research center.... ENGINEERING &
DENTISTRY: By studying diseases in which the human body
generates too much bone, UCLA researchers have discovered and isolated
a natural molecule that can be used to heal fractures and generate
new bone growth in patients who lack it.
EX-GOVERNORS
ADDRESS CHALLENGES FACING STATE
It is rare for three former governors of California
— two Democrats and a Republican — to gather in one
place and speak about the state’s future. It’s rarer
still for them to set aside their political ideologies and extemporaneously
express broad agreement on the importance of such issues as education,
the economy and nonpartisanship in politics and society.
CHANCELLOR
TAKES UCLA'S MESSAGE TO CAPITOL HILL
He was clearly a man on a mission: Chancellor Albert Carnesale went
to Washington, D.C., April 17-19 to advocate for UCLA’s interests
in meetings with members of the California congressional delegation
who serve in leadership roles in the House of Representatives.
UCLA TRIO CREATES
NUCLEAR FUSION WITH TINY DEVICE
In a remarkable laboratory experiment that holds promise for technological
advancement, a UCLA graduate student and two members of the California
NanoSystems Institute at UCLA have developed an inexpensive miniature
device that can create nuclear fusion, the process that powers the
sun and the stars and is perhaps the only unlimited, environmentally
benign and genuinely sustainable energy source.
NEWS 2
CAMPUS
BRIEFS
BUCKLE UP OR ELSE: As part of a special enforcement
program, the UC Police Department on campus will be ticketing any
drivers and passengers in both private and university vehicles who
are not wearing their seat belts.... SENATE REVIEW: An
Academic Senate ad hoc committee has been formed to look at issues
that arise from the increasing number of UCLA courses that incorporate
online and distance learning.... CAMPUS CRIME: Overall,
violent and property crimes on campus and in surrounding neighborhoods
dropped 11% in 2004 compared to the previous year, according to
a draft report by the UCLA police.... GENUINE TREASURES:
The Central City Association of Los Angeles recently honored
two UCLA physicians as “Treasures of Los Angeles” for
their leadership of a groundbreaking medical team that separated
Guatemalan conjoined twins in 2002.
DISCOVERY OF
A GIANT PLANET
A European/American team of astronomers that includes
a UCLA scientist has discovered a giant planet, approximately five
times the mass of Jupiter, some 200 light years from Earth. In so
doing, they have produced the first image of a planet found outside
our solar system.
EVENTS,
EXHIBIT REVEAL BIAS OF ORIENTALISM
In “Arabian Nights,” Scheherazade distracts her new
husband from his murderous intentions by holding him spellbound
with one fantastic story after another of non-Westerners, who come
across as religious zealots, despots and superstitious fools.
DID YOU KNOW?
There are more than 1,000 radio broadcasts in the Archive Research
and Study Center in 46 Powell Library. Its collection includes episodes
of “Amos ’n’ Andy,” “Burns and Allen”
and “The Jack Benny Show,” to name a few. Call (310)
206-5388 for details.
YESTERDAY,
TODAY & TOMORROW
BRAGGING RIGHTS FOR THE YEAR: UCLA has
captured the 2005 Lexus Gauntlet trophy in a yearlong athletic challenge
with crosstown rival USC.... FEST FOR TWO-WHEELERS:
UCLA will celebrate Bike to Campus Week May 16-21.... THE
SEASON KICKOFF: Season, mini-plan and group tickets for
Bruin football games at the Rose Bowl will be available beginning
May 16.
PEOPLE
SKY-HIGH PRAISE
Forty years ago, a young man from Cambridge, Minn., came out West
to get his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology. Finding
the competition in his chosen field, high-energy physics, rather
intense, the graduate student decided to try something that better
suited him. He chose astronomy.
15 SECONDS
CATHERINE SHOWALTER: Director, Public Policy Program,
UCLA Extension.
NAMES AND FACES
Acclaim: Jorge
A. Lazareff... Eva L. Baker... Helene Brown... Ann R. Karagozian...
Fernando Torres-Gil.
In Memoriam:: Vinton Dearing... Milton
H. Miller... James Q. Simmons III.
CAMPUS
WEYBURN HELPS ATTRACT
TOP GRAD STUDENTS
Construction of Weyburn Terrace, UCLA’s 1,400-bed housing
complex for single graduate students, is nearly finished, and already
it is a magnet for top graduate students, academic administrators
said. The new complex is such a draw, in fact, that academic departments
are eager to have more spaces for their recruitment effort.
STAFF TEAMS FIND
SOLUTIONS FOR CAMPUS
Navigating the maze-like hallways of the UCLA Medical Center
is now easier for the public, thanks to Ambassador Services volunteers
who escort them to their destinations. They’ll even help them
find their cars in the parking structure.
TO YOUR HEALTH:
PLANNING FOR LONG-TERM CARE
Susan Hartenbaum was walking in a Los Angeles dog park on Jan. 2
when a 140-pound canine knocked her to the ground and shattered
her tibia. Confined to a wheelchair for months, Hartenbaum was forced
to seek long-term care (LTC), a broad range of services for chronically
ill patients who have trouble performing two or more activities
essential to daily living for at least 90 days.
IT'S SOME 'THING'
TO SEE
Stroll through the Hammer Museum’s latest exhibition of 51
new sculptural works by 20 largely unknown Los Angeles artists,
and you’ll likely hear a few whispered “Wows”
break the hushed silence of the space.
VOICES
WE'RE A
SUPERPOWER, BUT A MATH WEAKLING
Educated people would be embarrassed to say they don’t know
how to read, but many Americans have no hesitation admitting they’re
incompetent in math. Students who demonstrate their talents in math
and science are castigated as “nerds” in a world where
lawyers, doctors and businessmen generally make more money than
mathematicians and scientists. Prime-time television programs glorify
doctors, lawyers and police officers, but few programs have yet
incorporated math and science in any meaningful way.
A LIFE OF THE (INTUITIVE)
MIND
Imbalance has taken on new meaning in the 21st century.
Information overload, pagers, beepers, e-mail, blackberrys —
life is a constant “filling up” of more and more and
more. Time has expanded in our minds to a point where we no longer
know what is physically possible to accomplish, and so we are left
with double-booked schedules, back-to-back meetings, projects initiated
and never completed.
PERSONAL
JOURNEY:
SEEING WHAT U.S. TAX DOLLARS DO FOR ECUADOR'S POOR
In 2001, I hiked through remote villages in the highlands and rainforests
of Ecuador. That summer, the Bush administration announced the Andean
Regional Initiative (ARI), an expansion of policies started under
the Clinton administration and the latest effort in the “war
on drugs.” The ARI would receive very little media attention.
Not that it mattered. A few weeks later, 9/11 occurred and the war
on drugs was forgotten.
OUR WORLD: BY VS HIXSON
CLOSE UP
STUDENT SOLDIERS
Lt. Ryan Turonek, clad in green camouflage and combat boots,
stands feet slightly apart, hands clasped behind his back. Turonek
is supervising about three dozen members of UCLA’s Air Force
ROTC detachment in a grueling series of physical tests at Drake
Stadium. The cadets are doing sit-ups, their faces red from the
exertion as they tap elbows to knees for the 40th, then the 50th,
time. The lieutenant’s eyes dart from one cadet to another.
“Smith, come up a little more! Go higher, Wilkins!”
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