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UCLA Hosts Peace Corps’ 50th Anniversary Celebration
Tonight, more than 1,000 attendees are expected to gather in Royce Hall to welcome a panel of former Peace Corps volunteers, including director Aaron Williams, former National Public Radio director Frank Mankiewicz and MSNBC 'Hardball' host Chris Matthews. The Daily Bruin reports.
Posted: 3/2/2011
Tibetan-Born Neuroscientist Combines Meditation and Medicine
Dr. Lobsang Rapgay helped organize a symposium exploring Buddhism and neuroscience, in many ways fulfilling the journey that the UCLA expert in Tibetan Buddhism, meditation, and medicine began half a century ago.
Posted: 2/25/2011
Rights Group Tracks Deaths, Detainments in Egypt
As the executive deputy director of research and programs for Human Rights Watch, Iain Levine manages the organization’s researchers and reporters, who are currently deployed in more than 40 countries. He spoke to UCLA students and faculty at the law school on Tuesday about the group's work in Egypt, the Daily Bruin student newspaper reports.
Posted: 2/10/2011
UC Haiti Initiative Rebuilds by Letting Haitians Lead
The largely student-based initiative, based out of UCLA's Program in Global Health, has a long-term strategy for empowering Haitians. Officials from Haiti's State University (UEH) will visit with students and faculty members on multiple UC campuses in a five-day symposium.
Posted: 1/28/2011
Peace Corps Leaders, Veterans to Celebrate 50 Years of Service
From 1961 until 1969, when training shifted overseas, more than one out of 10 Peace Corps volunteers was trained at UCLA, probably more than at any other college campus. UCLA is also alma mater to more than 1,700 Peace Corps volunteers, including 58 Bruins currently serving in 36 countries. A series of campus events March 2-5 will commemorate this tradition and look ahead to the next 50 years.
Posted: 1/21/2011
Graduate Student Profile: Hannah Reiss
A video interview with Hannah Reiss, PhD candidate in Anthropology
Posted: 1/18/2011
Graduate Student Profile: Murat Yildiz
A video interview with Murat Yildiz, PhD candidate in History
Posted: 12/17/2010
Robot Helps Professor Train New Surgeons in Italy
Using an android-like robot controlled with joysticks, UCLA's Dr. Erik Dutson is able to interact with trainees and faculty in Italy, answer questions and "move" around the room.
Posted: 11/3/2010
Focus on Men at Reproductive Health Conference
The UCLA Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health and James S. Coleman African Studies Center organize a two day-gathering to assess how family planning policy and anti-HIV/AIDS efforts would look different with greater attention to African boys, men and masculinities.
Posted: 10/18/2010
Lost Boy of Sudan Seeks To Heal His Homeland
Sudan's civil war killed more than 2 million people and, in a well-known episode, sent 20,000 boys in the country's South on a 1,000-mile march to Ethiopia and Kenya. Beset by thirst, hunger, wild animals and bombing attacks, fewer than half of them survived. John Dau, one of about 4,000 so-called Lost Boys of Sudan who were helped to relocate to the United States, told his story at the law school.
Posted: 9/20/2010
CNSI, Dutch Institute To Collaborate on Nanoscience, Nanotechnology
Through joint research projects and educational exchanges, the institutes will focus special attention on nanoelectronics, medical diagnostic and therapeutic devices, and new materials.
Posted: 9/17/2010
10 Questions for Jared Diamond on Global Collapse
Diamond's 2005 book and now a National Geographic documentary, "Collapse" juxtaposes America's future with the demise of the Roman Empire and other failed civilizations as a warning that we are hurtling down the same path.
Posted: 9/16/2010
Do the Math, Say UCLA Researchers
A World Health Organization proposal to eliminate AIDS in South Africa is flawed, according to a UCLA team.
Posted: 9/16/2010
Centralized Health Care More Cost-Effective, Offers Better Access to Preventive Services
A UCLA School of Public Health comparison of Mexico's federal and state health care–delivery systems provides important insights for other nations.
Posted: 9/14/2010
UCLA, Japanese Firm to Collaborate on Nanotech Imaging Tools
The California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA has announced plans to collaborate with Hamamatsu Photonics to apply nanoscience and nanotechnology to projects having global importance in health, medicine, energy and the environment.
Posted: 9/10/2010
Virus Related to Smallpox Rising Sharply in Africa
UCLA researchers find that monkeypox has increased 20-fold in Democractic Republic of Congo since 1980.
Posted: 8/31/2010
Climate Change Is Here to Stay, for Centuries
Carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere has locked the world into at least a 3.6-degree Fahrenheit global temperature increase that will last for millennia, according to a new report released by the National Research Council. Marilyn Raphael, a UCLA geography profesor and member of the report committee, urges action and not despair.
Posted: 8/24/2010
Capitalism Will Help Us Adapt to Climate Change, Economist Says
Matthew E. Kahn, an environmental economist, takes a pessimistic view of climate change--that it's too late to avoid rising sea levels and hotter summers--but believes cities can cope with the changes.
Posted: 8/17/2010
Local Efforts Key to Nuclear Disarmament
Commemorating the atomic bombings on Japan in 1945 and joining in the call for a world without nuclear weapons were, on Wednesday in Haines Hall, a local grandmother who survived the Hiroshima attack, a Japanese-born artist, a UCLA anthropologist and, by Internet link, local officials from Hiroshima and Manchester, UK, who lead international anti-nuclear organizations.
Posted: 8/6/2010
UC Faculty, Students Head to Haiti to Extend Role in Recovery
Twenty-one representatives of the student-founded UC Haiti Initiative will travel to the island nation for a 10-day fact-finding visit. The group, which includes 13 students, will visit Port-au-Prince, Jacmel, Mirebalais and Leogane, the epicenter of the 7.0 temblor that struck on Jan. 12, in search of specific recovery projects that can be sustained by the people themselves.
Posted: 8/4/2010
David Gere: Enlisting Art to End AIDS
Since a trip the World Arts & Cultures professor made to India in 2004, "Make Art/Stop AIDS" has grown into a project of international stature, with a worldwide network of artists intervening in the AIDS epidemic.
Posted: 7/12/2010
His Goal: $100 for Every Child Born in the World
Professor Bhagwan Chowdhry has an idea that could change the world. The bank accounts he proposes would provide an incentive to register births and a way to save money for children. In the wake of a natural disaster or emergency, governments and charitable and relief organizations could transfer money electronically to those in need in the most efficient way possible.
Posted: 7/1/2010
Making the World a Better Place, this Summer in Senegal
After spending their first four weeks studying in Dakar, 19 students will go to eco-villages in the Senegal River Valley to explore community development projects in public health, women's micro-financing, solar electricity and organic gardening.
Posted: 7/1/2010
UCLA Engineer's Telemedicine Invention Poised to Begin Trials in Africa
A lensless cellphone microscope receives three major awards.
Posted: 6/29/2010
Counter-Narcotics Policy in Afghanistan May Benefit Insurgents, Analysis Finds
Drug-economy experts to discuss findings in Washington, D.C., July 6.
Posted: 6/24/2010
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