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Nov 23, 2009
Law students take pulse on issues of global justice at The Hague
In Professor David Kaye's law course, students go where the action is in international human rights. For these motivated students, who study the mechanisms of justice for war crimes and crimes against humanity and genocide, that arena is The Hague...Nov 23, 2009
Clock ticks down on Open Enrollment
In the rush to make plans for Thanksgiving or to start that holiday gift list before Black Friday sales, don't forget that Open Enrollment will close at 5 p.m. tomorrow (Tuesday, Nov. 24). If you wait until the end November to make...Nov 20, 2009
UC seeking $913 million increase in state funding
Seeking to restore funding cuts that have led to furloughs and fee increases, the University of California will advocate for a $913 million increase in its allocation from the state as part of a budget plan for fiscal year 2010-11 to be presented to...Nov 19, 2009
UC to help reopen South L.A.'s MLK hospital
Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas addresses the media after the UC regents approved a UC-county partnership to reopen Martin Luther King Jr. Hospital. Regent William De La Peña and Chancellor Gene Block appear in...Nov 19, 2009
Block warns of challenges ahead for student diversity
UCLA has come a long way from 2006 when enrollment of 100 African American freshmen was at a 30-year low, Chancellor Gene Block told the UC regents during a Nov. 18 meeting at Covel Commons. Over the last three years, UCLA has managed to double that...Nov 17, 2009
UC Commission on the Future hears radical funding ideas
Charging a fee to companies that hire university graduates and eliminating student fees were among the ideas the UC Commission on the Future heard at its meeting in Oakland on Nov. 12. Launched in September, the commission's goal is to...Nov 10, 2009
UC searches for interned Japanese-American students to receive honorary degrees
University of California campuses are still looking for Japanese-American students who had their studies derailed by being interned during World War II. Ceremonies to award honorary degrees to the former students are set for December and spring...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
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...
