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Former Buddhist Nun Helps Stressed-Out Find Inner Peace
Diana Winston rarely talks about the spiritual evolution that brought her here, to a large university where researchers are discovering that the practice of mindfulness meditation has many physical and psychological benefits, including slowing the progression of HIV in patients suffering from stress and helping ADHD teens focus.
Posted: 8/21/2009
Trial by Fire in the Lassa Ward
Dr. Ross Donaldson interrupted med school at UCLA to travel to Sierra Leone and treat victims of one of the world's deadliest diseases, the Lassa virus. Thus began an adventure that he turned into a book.
Posted: 8/10/2009
Human Trafficking Escalates as World Economy Plunges
An Indonesian woman shared her story at the conference, "Impact of the Economic Crisis: Increase in Reports of Human Trafficking in LA County and Globally," co-sponsored by the Iris Cantor-UCLA Women's Health Center.
Posted: 6/5/2009
AIDS Researcher Detels Wins Teaching Award
Roger Detels, a professor of epidemiology, is recognized for Distinction in Teaching at the Graduate Level.
Posted: 6/2/2009
Mass Privatization and the Postcommunist Mortality Crisis
A public lecture by LARRY KING, Cambridge University, Sociology
Posted: 5/27/2009
Foucault and Middle East Studies - Foucault, the Frankfurt School, and Sexuality in Modern Iran
Janet Afary, UCLA
Posted: 4/29/2009
Foucault and Middle East Studies - Genus of Sex
Afsaneh Najmabadeh, Harvard University
Posted: 4/29/2009
UCLA Holds 1st Graduate Conference on Indonesia
Sponsored by the new UCLA Indonesian Studies Program, a graduate student conference promotes activism and collaborative scholarship about the world's fourth-largest nation.
Posted: 4/23/2009
Is the Islamic Republic of Iran Headed for a Sexual Revolution?
Janet Afary, a visiting professor in the Department of History, will discuss her forthcoming book, "Sexual Politics in Modern Iran" (Cambridge University Press, 2009), at a public event on May 19. This related op-ed recently appeared in the Guardian newspaper.
Posted: 4/17/2009
Renewable Energy for Urban Homes
Urban planning graduate student and Fulbright fellow T.H. Culhane introduces handmade solar water heaters in Cairo and thinks about how energy projects can address both poverty and environmental problems.
Posted: 4/9/2009
Colombian VP: Add Ecological Devastation to Cocaine's Toll
Francisco Santos Calderon, a former journalist and a victim of kidnapping himself by the Medellin drug cartel, came to campus with a message: cocaine use is killing Colombia's tropical rainforests, poisoning its rivers and land with toxic chemicals used in production of the drug, and ravaging a fragile ecosystem that sustains species of birds, amphibians, reptiles and plants that can be found nowhere else on this planet.
Posted: 2/27/2009
10 Questions for Robert Lemelson
In 1965-66, between 500,000 and 1 million Indonesians were slaughtered in one of the most horrific state-sponsored acts of modern times. Long denied by the Indonesian government, the little-known massacre is the subject of a chilling documentary film produced and directed by Robert Lemelson, a research anthropologist at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior.
Posted: 2/6/2009
UCLA Peacemaker to Speak on Global Conflicts, Everyday Choices
At a free public lecture on Saturday in Santa Monica, Burkle Center Deputy Director Anna Spain, a lawyer and mediator specializing in cross-cultural conflict resolution, will discuss how citizens can contribute to the spread of peace around the world.
Posted: 1/27/2009
Global Medical Training Lends a Hand to Developing Countries
The nonprofit group's UCLA branch made its first service trip last spring break, to Nicaragua, The Daily Bruin reports.
Posted: 1/9/2009
UCLA Advanced Degrees Put to Work for Education in Afghanistan
Born in Kabul and brought up in Orange County, UCLA Islamic Studies alumna Parisa Popalzai says that war-torn Afghanistan needs the help of those who had to leave it. She applies skills learned at the Anderson School and the International Institute to two issues: giving Afghan kids with special needs a chance and training managers for a new economy.
Posted: 12/23/2008
Textbook Drive for Iraqi Doctors Becomes International Movement of Giving
Operation Medical Libraries, which began with an e-mail request for donated textbooks from a UCLA alumnus in Iraq, has blossomed into an international movement in just 18 months.
Posted: 12/15/2008
UCLA Signs Historic Memorandum with Pediatric Institution in Tokyo
Leaders from Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA and Jikei University School of Medicine will collaborate to enhance research.
Posted: 12/5/2008
Peruvian Leader on the Costs of Global Poverty
A son of poverty, former Peruvian president, and founder of the Global Center for Development and Democracy, Alejandro Toledo on Dec. 2 spoke of poverty, inequality, and social exclusion as evils in themselves, and warned of the consequences of failing to reduce all three.
Posted: 12/3/2008
Researchers Fight the Stigma of HIV/AIDS
Faculty members at the UCLA Semel Institute are working with the Thai government to use innovative treatment models to battle the social and psychological side effects facing Thai families affected by the virus.
Posted: 12/1/2008
Israelis and Palestinians Put Humanity Above Politics to Save Lives
The duo, Noam Yifrach and Younis Al-Khatib, are the heads, respectively, of the Maghen David Adom (MDA) and the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS), the Israeli and Palestinian equivalents of the Red Cross.
Posted: 11/26/2008
Engineers Without Borders Constructs a Better World
From Thailand to Guatemala, UCLA's EWB chapter goes the distance for philanthropy.
Posted: 11/19/2008
'Iraqi Marshlands Then and Now'
Opening Dec. 14, the exhibit at the Fowler Museum will recall the land and culture decimated by Saddam Hussein after the 1991 Gulf War.
Posted: 11/3/2008
Doctors Without Borders Brings Eye-Opening Exhibit to LA
Experience the life of a refugee in a powerful exhibit and get involved with humanitarian work
Posted: 10/31/2008
South Kazakhstan Outbreak Led to Anti-HIV Programs
The Shymkent outbreak of 2006 affected more than 130 children but also energized Kazakh officials to implement programs for HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment.
Posted: 10/28/2008
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