The movement has also recently been the focus of a broader initiative to increase dialogue between campus departments within the social sciences. Last month, the UCLA Division of Social Sciences created a forum to discuss the Occupy protests. Read more...
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December 5, 12:05 am
Occupy movement sparks UCLA Division of Social Sciences to start blog for campus dialogue
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December 5, 12:01 am
Number of research grant fraud cases on the rise, as government works to stop trend
Reports of fraud in federal research awards have risen in recent years, and universities and the federal government are acting to halt the trend. Read more...
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December 4, 11:59 pm
Tracking Disease in the Congo
Rumors spread quickly when Anne Rimoin and her team arrived at a remote village in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2002 to take blood samples from every person over the age of 1. Some villagers believed the UCLA assistant professor in epidemiology and her team were stealing blood for white Europeans to stay young, Rimoin said. Read more...
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Anne Rimoin and her team traveled to a remote village in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2002 to get specimens of human monkeypox, a disease prevalent in the region. Nine years later, Rimoin still returns to the Congo to conduct her research.
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December 1, 12:28 am
UC officials plan for more public input
University of California officials say they plan to reach out more extensively to students in the coming weeks, after a teleconference meeting Monday that was punctuated by protests and included an unusually long public comment period. Read more...
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UC Riverside Chancellor Timothy P. White, left, and UCLA Chancellor Gene Block speak to a member of Occupy UCLA during the UC Board of Regents meeting in the James West Alumni Center on Monday.
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December 1, 12:22 am
First UCLA history book in 42 years released
The book, released Nov. 23, details the university's major figures and happenings since its origins, as well as new information about the first 50 years of UCLA that has become available since the last book recording the school's history. Read more...
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“UCLA: The First Century,” released Nov. 23, is the first history book written about UCLA in 42 years.
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December 1, 12:15 am
In the jaws of research
Marisa Tellez spared two looks at her left hand minutes after it was bitten by a crocodile. The first one was to see if her pinky finger was there. Read more...
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Marisa Tellez, a graduate student in ecology and environmental biology, researches crocodiles, alligators and parasites.
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December 1, 12:06 am
UCLA grad student witnesses Egypt’s first parliamentary elections
After participating in protests in Egypt's Tahrir Square for the past week, Hazem Kandil watched on Monday as voters headed to the polls for the country's first-ever parliamentary elections since former President Hosni Mubarak's fall from power. Read more...