INDEX 1994
JULY 22, 1994
(Volume 15, No. 1)
This index page is for reference only; stories in this issue are not available online. Print editions may be found in the periodicals stacks of the Charles Young Research Library.
STATE BUDGET PROVIDES UC WITH 1ST INCREASE IN 4 YEARS - Budget for 1994-'95 could provide staff and faculty with first cost-of-living adjustment in four years and a student fee increase of 10% rather than 18%.
FISCAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM TO UNDERGO COMPLETE REVIEW - Chancellor Charles E. Young asks for review of UCLA's financial management systems.
COMMUNICATION POLICY CENTER CHOSEN AS TV-VIOLENCE WATCHDOG - Center for Communication Policy, directed by Jeff Cole, will assess impact of violence in TV network entertainment programming.
LEVEY NAMED PROVOST OF MEDICAL SCIENCES - Gerald S. Levey named provost of medical sciences and dean of the UCLA School of Medicine.
UP, UP AND AWAY! UCLA LAUNCHES EXPERIMENT TO HELP HEAL THE OZONE HOLE - Professor Alfred Wong experimented with ozone sensors on NASA flight test.
'REBUILD' COMPUTER PROGRAM WINS SMITHSONIAN AWARD - "Rebuild Los Angeles," designed by team from Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning, led by William Jepson, wins 1994 Computerworld Smithsonian Award Program.
NOBEL-WINNING PHYSICIST JULIAN SCHWINGER DIES - Obit: Julian Schwinger.
UC REGENTS APPROVE SCHOOLS RESTRUCTURING PLAN - Move saves $7 million, preserves degree programs. All revisions of Professional Schools Restructuring Initiative now approved.
NEW PUBLIC POLICY SCHOOL TAKES SHAPE ON CAMPUS - Plans for startup of new School of Public Policy and Social Research developing, Archie Kleingartner acting dean.
PANEL EXAMINES FUTURE OF RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES - Two-day symposium, "Reinventing the Research University," looks at new realities, demands of post-Cold-War era.
17 NEW, REVISED COURSES EXPLORE DIVERSITY ISSUES - Faculty offers new, revised courses keyed to multiculturalism.
CAMPUS COSTUMERS USE BACKSTAGE MAGIC, IMAGINATION TO RECREATE PAGEANTRY OF PAST - Costume shop supervisor John Brandt and his staff sew, design costumes for student productions.
PLAZA TO GET FACELIFT AS ACKERMAN PROJECT BEGINS - Architects design new stage, wider corridor and small square in and around Bruin Plaza.
CAMPUS POLICE REVAMPED IN MOVE TO BOOST SAFETY, EFFICIENCY - The campus police department is being reorganized through layoffs, elimination and consolidation of positions.
STUDY FINDS RELATIVES PROVIDE POORER-QUALITY CHILD CARE - Study by Carollee Howes of Graduate School of Education and Information Studies finds regulated childcare providers are likely to take better care of children than are relatives or unregulated providers.
CAMPUS JOBS WIDEN YOUTH'S PERSPECTIVES - Summer Youth Employment and Training Program, brings urban youths new awareness of their potential.
NASA PROGRAM HELPS STUDENTS SHOOT FOR MARS - Engineering students work with NASA scientists on projects for manned, unmanned missions. Mini-rover Mars Ball is one such device.
NASA PROGRAM HELPS STUDENTS SHOOT FOR MARS - Researchers Pamela Boyer, Yvonne J. Bryson of School of Medicine find that babies of HIV-positive women more likely to survive.
HUNDREDS HONOR MEMORY OF FRANKLIN MURPHY - The late UCLA chancellor Franklin Murphy is remembered by faculty, colleagues, fellow art lovers.