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Nov 06, 2009
From war to Westwood: when soldiers become students
A new UCLA class is reaching out to a unique kind of incoming Bruin: veterans relearning how to live as civilians after service in the military. In the safety of the all-vets class, they discuss their impatience with students who think midterms...Nov 06, 2009
Prof reveals Florence Nightingale's political side
Florence Nightingale's image and writings are on display at UCLA's Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, including the large blue book above. It's a 1,000-page report she wrote for a royal commission that was used to improve hospital mortality...Nov 05, 2009
UC postdoc fellowship program encourages diversity
A walk in the woods around Lake Arrowhead helped Wayne Yang solve a major career conundrum: whether to accept a coveted tenure-track faculty position at UC San Diego. Yang strolled in the forest with Sheila O'Rourke, director of the UC President's Postdoctoral...Nov 04, 2009
UCLA experts take lead in regional climate plan
The LARC (Los Angeles Regional Collaborative for Climate Action and Sustainability) hopes to transform the Los Angeles region. In a unique effort to address climate change, experts with UCLA's Institute of the Environment (IOE) have been tapped...Nov 03, 2009
Explore the Universe — on south campus
The sun, the moon and the stars — enjoy all this and more during “Exploring the Universe,” an family-friendly open house presented by UCLA’s departments of Physics and Astronomy, Earth and Space Sciences, and Atmospheric Sciences....Nov 03, 2009
Staff honors
Landscape Architecture Program Director Stephanie Landregan recently was installed as the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) national vice president of government affairs at ASLA’s annual meeting and expo, held this year in Chicago....Nov 03, 2009
UCLA researchers bring in $4M a day in research contracts, grants
UCLA researchers have had spectacular success over the last four months in getting their research proposals funded, bringing in an average of $4 million each day. If the current pace continues, they may break their 2008-09 all-time record for...
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Nov 03, 2009
H1N1 vaccine scarce at UC campuses, medical centers
The national H1N1 flu vaccine shortage is hitting the University of California, where campuses and medical centers have scant supplies. "The H1N1 vaccine is trickling in at best at the medical centers, and it's almost nonexistent at campuses,"...Nov 03, 2009
Obama committed to working with international institutions, official says
When President Barack Obama led a session of the United Nations Security Council last September, one that produced a resolution calling for countries to support a world without nuclear weapons, he became the first U.S. president to ever do so. That...Nov 02, 2009
University of California ranks among best in the world
The 2009 rankings from the Institute of Higher Education at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China place seven University of California campuses among the top 50 universities in the world. The rankings, which include both public and private institutions,...
