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Oct 30, 2009
Help a family in need
For the past 17 holiday seasons, the UCLA Health System Auxiliary has coordinated the Adopt-a-Family Program, supporting hundreds of families who are experiencing extraordinary challenges. The program provides support for basic needs as well as holiday...Oct 30, 2009
Comics artist R. Crumb recasts Bible's Book of Genesis
His hair flows back from his head and mingles with his long beard, and as he cups a swirling, black vortex in his hands, God begins “to create Heaven and Earth.” Once difficult to imagine, this scene from the first paragraph of the Bible’s Genesis...Oct 30, 2009
Campus map 2.0: Collaborators welcome
UCLA's newest map makes searching easier and includes additional useful information about campus buildings and points of interest.Last November, Campus General Services unveiled an online campus map that, for the first time, let users...Oct 29, 2009
Faculty Research Lecturer’s advice: Whistle a healthy tune
Steven Clarke, professor of biochemistry in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and director of the Molecular Biology Institute, is getting ready to deliver the 107th Faculty Research Lecture on Tuesday, Nov. 3, one of the highest honors given...Oct 29, 2009
How 40 years of the Internet changed the world
The Internet's 40th anniversary conference had something the 30th lacked: a pop-culture panel. Panelists, from left: John Taylor, bassist in the band Duran Duran; John Perry Barlow, Electronic Frontier Foundation; and from World-of-Warcraft producer...Oct 29, 2009
Scholar survives political imprisonment in Iran
In a book review for Ms. Magazine, Nikki Keddie, professor emeritus of history at UCLA, called Haleh Esfandiari's life story, as told in her book "My Prison, My Home"… a story of faith in the human capacity to withstand…” On...Oct 29, 2009
Researcher offers her hope for release from lifelong pain
For as long as she can remember, Summer Harris has been in pain. Sometimes dull, throbbing pain, but often pain so piercing that she feels "like somebody is stabbing me in the back and legs, my head, my knees." It can last for hours or linger on for...Oct 28, 2009
Crime alert: Former faculty member is missing
UCLA police are looking for Philip Agre, a former associate professor of information sciences. Agre, 49, was reported missing by his sister, who has not seen Agre since spring 2008. An out-of-state resident, Agre's sister said she...Oct 28, 2009
Navigating UCLA gets easier for students with new Bruin Resource Center
UCLA students who grew up in foster homes, served in the military or are trying to balance studies with parenting may not seem to have much in common, but their personal challenges to completing their degrees may be similar. For example, veterans...Oct 28, 2009
United Way's HomeWalk to help shelter homeless
There's a way you can help homeless families in greater Los Angeles get off the streets or out of their cars where people have sought shelter and into an apartment. Come walk five kilometers with the United Way of Greater Los Angeles on Saturday,...
