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INDEX
2006
February 22, 2006
(Vol. 26, No. 10)
NEWS
BRIEFS ONLINE
TEACHING AND TECHNOLOGY: The Faculty Committee on Educational Technology has selected four instructors to receive the 2006 Brian P. Copenhaver Award for Innovation in Teaching with Technology.... COMING TO THE CITY OF LIGHTS: Faculty and alumni artists from UCLA will be represented in “Los Angeles 1955‑1985,” a major exhibition opening at the Centre Pompidou in Paris on March 8 and running through July 17.....ALUMNI AND RECIPIENT OF UCLA EXTENSION CERTIFICATE ARE UP FOR ACADEMY AWARD:Alumni and recipient of UCLA Extension certificate among the Oscar nominees
A number of Bruins will be nervously waiting to hear if they are headed for the podium on Oscar night. Among the films and people in contention for an Academy Award.... NEW CONTRACT FOR CLERICAL EMPLOYEES: UC clerical employees have ratified a new multi-year contract through Sept. 30, 2008. Under the agreement, UC's clerical employees will receive wage increases of approximately 12% over the next three years, contingent upon state funding, including a 3.5% increase retroactive to Oct. 1, 2005, when other UC employees received increases.... PROFESSOR'S RESEARCH ON CELL WINS HER A NAS AWARD: Sabeeha Merchant, professor of biochemistry, will be honored with a major award from the National Academy of Sciences at a ceremony April 23 in Washington, D.C., during the academy's annual meeting.... CHANGES TO WORK AND FAMILY POLICIES FOR ACADEMIC PERSONNEL: To help accommodate academic appointees and their families, UC has revised key components in its academic personnel policies that cover work and family issues.... AFRICAN-AMERICAN ANGELENOS: Forming and Transforming the City: African Americans in Los Angeles," which reveals the influence of African-American individuals, organizations and institutions both in Los Angeles and beyond, is on view in the lobby of the Charles E. Young Research Library now through March 30.... STUDENT SUMMIT ON TRAFFIC: On Feb. 10, Public Affairs Day at Los Angeles City Hall, 16 graduate students from the School of Public Affairs worked directly with Los Angeles leaders and administrators on the city's top issue -- traffic.... BLOOD SUGAR LEVELS IN MEN: Men with cardiovascular disease may be at considerably increased risk for death even when their blood sugar level remains in the normal range, suggests a new study by a team of scientists at UCLA and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.... NEW CENTER TO STUDY RACIAL ATTITUDES: A new UCLA center has been launched to conduct large-scale surveys exploring the racial attitudes of major groups and provide opportunities for faculty and students to do international fieldwork about the impact of race and ethnicity on global modern societies.... RESOLUTION SENT TO REGENTS: The Board of Directors of the UCLA Alumni Association adopted a resolution Feb. 11 that urges the UC Board of Regents to undertake a targeted divestment of UC investments in Sudan because of the Sudanese government's "perpetuation of genocide in the country's Darfur region," said the association's president, Eleanor Brewer.... HEADING OFF A DRINKING PROBLEM: Beginning this fall, all incoming first-year students will be required to take an online alcohol education and prevention program as part of the university's comprehensive and proactive approach to help students make safe and healthy decisions about alcohol.... WHERE ARE WE? We're in the Viewpoint Lounge, A-level of Ackerman Union, looking at the articulated ceiling, designed by UCLA alumna architect Rebecca Binder.
UCLA MAKES HISTORY WITH $3 BILLION IN GIFTS
UCLA has completed the most successful fund-raising campaign in the history of higher education, generating more than $3 billion to deepen and broaden the university’s excellence in education, research, health care and community service.
POWER OF PEN REVEALS TRUTHS
It’s not what they wrote, but how they wrote it that gives us a picture of what’s inside the minds of O.J. Simpson; James Earl Ray, the confessed killer of Martin Luther King Jr.; and Albert DeSalvo, better known as the Boston Strangler.
FACULTY COMPENSATION SYSTEM TO BE REVIEWED
In an address to the Legislative Assembly of the Academic Senate that covered several topics, Chancellor Albert Carnesale said a joint committee of faculty and administrators at UCLA is being formed to look at how faculty compensation is handled and to make recommendations for improvements.
FACULTY, STAFF AND EMERITI: "WHY I GAVE TO CAMPAIGN UCLA"
Among the more than 225,000 donors to Campaign UCLA were generous faculty, administrators, staff and emeriti who, as current and former campus employees, have special insight about where their gifts would have the greatest impact.
BUSH'S BUDGET OFFERS GOOD, BAD NEWS
The news is both cheery and sobering for those at UCLA who are assessing President Bush’s budget request for 2007 to see whether more funding will be available in their area of research.
PEOPLE
SHE'S BOUND FOR RED CARPET ON OSCAR NIGHT
She was just nominated for an Academy Award as the producer of “Crash” and is a partner in a high-powered entertainment company with numerous film and television projects. She’s also an active member of the Producers Guild of America, one of several trade organizations to which she belongs.
HE'S THE GURU OF COMPUTER-GENERATED MOVIE MAGIC
From “Jurassic Park” to the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, the films that Computer Science Professor Demetri Terzopoulos finds most enjoyable all have one thing in
common: a significant amount of computer-generated animation.
APPLAUSE
M. Norton Wise, Sabeeha Merchant, J. Fraser Stoddart, Lawrence Kruger, Gil Cates, Joe Sargent, Herb Stein, Venice Family Clinic, UCLA Cousin's Center for Psychoneuroimmunology.
NAMES & FACES
Joel D. Aberbach, Vijay K. Dhir, Eric Fonkalsrud
IN MEMORIAM
Marcel Krauthammer, Foster H. Sherwood, David Saxon.
OUT & ABOUT
THE SECRET TO FORMING START-UPS
Leonard H. Rome wears many hats. Besides being senior associate dean of research at the David Geffen School of Medicine, he is also associate vice chancellor for research for the life and health sciences, a professor of biological chemistry, and the head of a research team at the California NanoSystems Institute — itself a joint enterprise between UCLA and UC Santa Barbara.
STEM CELL RESEARCH ENTANGLED IN ISSUES
What promise does stem cell research hold for us? Who speaks for the public interest? What is occurring with the Proposition 71 litigation? And how is the field of stem cell research being regulated?
NOT TO BE MISSED:
UCLA Live, in association with the UCLA Film and Television Archive, presents “Royce Hall Organ & Film,” screening three silent film shorts by some of cinema’s most influential and popular talents. Charlie Chaplin’s “The Rink” (1916), Harold Lloyd’s “Bumping into Broadway” (1919) and Buster Keaton’s “Cops” (1922) will be shown in this fun-filled afternoon family event. Renowned organist Christoph Bull uses his improvisational skills and charismatic flair to provide the soundtrack on the historic Royce Hall Skinner organ. 2 p.m. Saturday, March 4. Royce Hall. $25 adults, $15children. Tickets: (310) 825-2101 or www.uclalive.org.
WHERE ARE WE?
As if created by an origami master, this assemblage of wooden pieces frames a view of the sky. To find out where we are on campus, click Briefs and look at the end of Briefs Online.
VOICES
THE PERILS OF TARGETING FACULTY
The recent launch of a Web site dedicated to exposing “UCLA’s most radical professors” opens a new front in an ongoing war waged by the American right against the allegedly liberal American academy.
BLACK LIFE IN LOS ANGELES IS UNDERSTUDIED, HISTORICALLY OVERLOOKED
The recent launch of a Web site dedicated to exposing “UCLA’s most radical professors” opens a new front in an ongoing war waged by the American right against the allegedly liberal American academy.
DANCING 26 HOURS DISPELS NOTION OF YOUTH APATHY
Hindsight is always 20/20: Looking back, it’s easy to assess where individuals and nations, ignorant of major crises, have “gone wrong.” Assessing the moment is infinitely more difficult. Every day, for example, 1,900 children worldwide get infected with HIV/AIDS, yet most people do not know this.
CARTOON BY CAROLE CABLE
CAMPUS
PARTNERSHIP, VISIONARY LEADERS WERE CRITICAL TO CAMPAIGN'S SUCCESS
Campaign UCLA, the most successful fund-raising campaign in the history of higher education, owes its success to an amazing partnership — the academic leadership, faculty, donors, volunteers, staff, alumni and students who made it possible. With more than $3 billion raised, the 10-year effort will ensure that UCLA continues to advance knowledge, educate the workforce, power the economy and enrich people’s lives. UCLA Today Editor Cynthia Lee spoke with Vice Chancellor for External Affairs Michael Eicher, who oversaw this drive from its inception.
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