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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.
 

Blum Center hosts inaugural symposium

Blum Center hosts inaugural symposium
The UCLA Blum Center on Poverty and Health in Latin America held its inaugural spring symposium Wednesday, drawing members of the campus community together to share ideas aimed at alleviating poverty and improving health in Latin America.

Out and About

Bruins honor veterans with Memorial Wall
Second-year student Patrick Yew joined fellow Bruins on Wednesday in writing the names of military service members on a Memorial Wall at the Court of Sciences. The project, tied in with the upcoming Memorial Day holiday, was organized by UCLA’s Military Veterans Organization, the KIA WIA Foundation, UCLA Red Cross, the Community Emergency Response Team, UCLA Army ROTC and Operation Mend's undergraduate student support group. The wall moves to Bruin Plaza today, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Learn more here.

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 community to honor veterans on Memorial Wall

Campus community to honor veterans on Memorial Wall
With the three-day Memorial Day weekend coming up, veterans and their supporters on campus want everyone to take a moment to reflect on the many contributions made by service men and women, both those who have passed and those who are with us.

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 students plan to rock Pauley

UCLA students plan to rock Pauley
Spring Sing, a Bruin tradition since 1945, is the biggest night of the year for UCLA student musicians, singers, actors and performers, who will be on stage tonight at Pauley Pavilion. It's the culmination of 13 months of work for the guy in charge.  

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.

UCLA's first annual Diversity Symposium promotes dialogue

UCLA's first annual Diversity Symposium promotes dialogue
On Monday, May 13, UCLA officially kicked off its first annual Diversity Symposium, a weeklong series of programs ending May 18 to promote diversity and inclusion on campus.

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.

Workshop engages faculty in online learning efforts

Workshop engages faculty in online learning efforts
As the campus ramps up online instruction, a daylong forum solicited input from faculty and offered best practices for teaching in the digital realm.

Hammer Museum wins grant to help revitalize Westwood Village

Hammer Museum wins grant to help revitalize Westwood Village
The Hammer Museum has won $100,000 to set up a pop-up village of local artisanal shops and galleries to help fill empty storefront in Westwood Village. A plan is in the works.

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.

The European Union in the world

The European Union in the world
Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, spoke at the faculty center about the 'high common denominator' underlying a 27-country foreign policy.

Extroverts promise, but neurotics deliver when it comes to teamwork

Extroverts promise, but neurotics deliver when it comes to teamwork
A study of extroverts and neurotics in the workplace by business professor Corinne Bendersky has surprising results.

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.  

Tea Party and Muslim Brotherhood: twins separated at birth

Tea Party and Muslim Brotherhood: twins separated at birth
Two conservative social movements — which on the surface may seem to have nothing in common — are conspiring against democracy to derail any progress of individual freedom and community solidarity for the sake of their own agenda.