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After Hours: A professor and her therapy dog

Meet Blizzard, UCLA history professor Margaret Jacob's beloved collie and her partner in volunteering. Together, they regularly make the rounds at Reagan UCLA Medical Center to soothe away the stresses of patients and visitors, young and old.

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Take me out to the courthouse

Take me out to the courthouse
UCLA law professor Stuart Banner writes about the history of baseball examined through its court cases.

UC student graduation rates hit a 20-year high

UC student graduation rates hit a 20-year high
Despite budgetary constraints brought on by years of declining state funding, the University of California continues to outpace many of its peer institutions on critical measures of student success.

On front lines of medical marijuana issue

On front lines of medical marijuana issue
Led by social welfare professor Bridget Freisthler, student researchers are fanning out across Los Angeles to visit medical marijuana dispensaries, surveying patients and dispensary owners to learn how marijuana fits into their lives — and how it shapes the fabric of their communities.

Jews in the other promised land

Jews in the other promised land
More than 150 artifacts that document Jewish history in Los Angeles are featured in a new exhibit that opened at the Autry National Center. Assisting in this endeavor were UCLA faculty, students, alumni and the university’s extensive library system.

State of UC outlined in Yudof ‘white paper’

State of UC outlined in Yudof ‘white paper’
University of California President Mark Yudof presented a report to the Board of Regents Wednesday  that charted the significant changes of the past six years and offered a candid assessment of how UC is performing today.

Students give high marks to UC education, access to courses

Students give high marks to UC education, access to courses
University of California students remain highly satisfied with their education overall, and with their access to courses needed to graduate, according to a survey of UC undergraduates released this week. 

Serving justice on a global scale

Serving justice on a global scale
A UCLA law professor and his students gather the world's best legal minds online to debate the most pressing and complex issues of human rights and international criminal law on a website that's been lauded as one of the world's top innovations for justice.
 

Out and About

27th Annual Jazz Reggae Festival
The 27th Annual Jazz Reggae Festival will be held on Memorial Day Weekend, May 26 and 27, and will feature artists such as Common, Santigold, Ziggy Marley, Jhene Aiko and others. Jazz Reggae is a two-day festival, the largest student-run music festival in the country, and highlights the art, music, and culture of jazz and reggae music. Sunday, the first day of the festival, is known as Jam Day and is dedicated to jazz music. The second day, Monday, showcases reggae music. Both days run from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Intramural Field. For UCLA students, staff and faculty, tickets are $25 for each day. For more info, visit: http://www.jazzreggaefest.com.

People

Next UC staff advisor-designate selected

Next UC staff advisor-designate selected
Donna Coyne of UC Santa Barbara has been selected as the 2013-2015 staff advisor-designate to the University of California regents.

Graduating M.B.A.s take top prize with website for bridesmaids

Graduating M.B.A.s take top prize with website for bridesmaids
Two M.B.A. students recently took the top prize in a UCLA Anderson School of Management competition for having the best business proposal — a website that rents designer bridesmaid dresses. It launches this fall.

Renaissance RoboCop

Renaissance RoboCop
On Tuesday last week, he's a middle-aged Ph.D candidate lecturing in a Royce Hall conference room on the Italian Renaissance. But on the big screen last weekend, he's Marcus in "Star Trek Into Darkness."

Is there a nurse practitioner in the house?

Is there a nurse practitioner in the house?
Nurse practitioners are a new breed of health care provider that figures to play a pivotal role in health care in this country. Increasingly, it is a nurse practitioner whom patients see when they go to their doctor’s office.

After Hours (VIDEO): Global marathoner Alfreda Iglehart

After Hours (VIDEO): Global marathoner Alfreda Iglehart
Social welfare associate professor Alfreda Iglehart has circled the globe as a marathoner, completing runs in Beijing, Bangkok and Iceland. Rio de Janeiro is where she'll be this year. In all, she has worn down her running shoes doing 37 marathons and 28 half-marathons.

Extreme commuter: UCLA staffer bikes 22 miles to campus from Valley

Extreme commuter: UCLA staffer bikes 22 miles to campus from Valley
Not many people can say they cross a mountain range on their way to work — not on their own steam, anyway. But Annelie Rugg gets to campus from the West San Fernando Valley most days by bicycle.

Around Campus

Campus to host symposium on future of educational assessment in U.S.

Experts on education assessment and policy from around the country will participate in a symposium on June 12 in De Neve Plaza to discuss the reports of the Gordon Commission on the Future of Assessment in Education.

Bike-powered 'Ecochella' concert rolls onto campus Friday

Bike-powered 'Ecochella' concert rolls onto campus Friday
Bicycle-powered generators will run the show Friday night when UCLA's first bike-powered concert takes the stage.

WOMP volunteers engage community

WOMP volunteers engage community
UCLA volunteers planted 22 new trees on Sunday in Westwood Village as part of WOMP, the Westwood Organized Meaningful Projects service day.

UCLA, United Way team up to help veterans find jobs

UCLA, United Way team up to help veterans find jobs
UCLA staff and faculty are encouraged to contribute to United Way to help returning veterans avoid poverty and homelessness.

UCLA's new Meteorite Museum rocks

UCLA's new Meteorite Museum rocks
Selections from a 1,500-meteorite collection in UCLA's department of Earth and space sciences are now available for public viewing.

His interview technique changed face of child abuse investigations

His interview technique changed face of child abuse investigations
R. Edward Geiselman's cognitive interview helps children feel more comfortable while also providing  detailed and accurate information about incidents of potential child abuse.

Hedrick Smith: No solution in sight to closing gap between rich, poor

Hedrick Smith: No solution in sight to closing gap between rich, poor
Even while America experiences a recovery of sorts from the recent recessionary period, Pulitzer Prize winner Hedrick Smith, author of a new book, "Who Stole the American Dream?", says there is no cure in sight for the growing inequality in wealth.

Voices

How health care is learning from lawsuits

How health care is learning from lawsuits
New evidence contradicts the conventional wisdom that malpractice litigation compromises the patient safety movement’s call for transparency.

Say 'No' to Gang of Eight's immigration reform bill

Say 'No' to Gang of Eight's immigration reform bill
President Obama, Congress and the public should "just say no" to the Gang of Eight’s immigration bill. In lieu of this flawed bill, we need a new immigration bill guided by humanistic principles with one central component: amnesty.

Wounded soldiers race to South Pole

Wounded soldiers race to South Pole
Mark Wise, a patient with UCLA's Operation Mend, joins other wounded soldiers on a 225-mile race across Antarctica to raise awareness of veterans' issues.

For a dying patient, a prescription of silence

A doctor struggles to fulfill a difficult request from the wife of a patient to tell him that he has cancer and is dying.

Verbatim — tracking our thoughts, families online and hidden viruses

Verbatim — tracking our thoughts, families online and hidden viruses
UCLA faculty members are quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent selection.

Feeling others' pain
teaches us tenderness

Feeling others' pain<br>teaches us tenderness
The founding principle of Mother's Day, notes education professor Marjorie Faulstrich Orellana, was to put an end to conflict and war in the world. Key to this is feeling deeply for others.