University of California regents joined delegates from top colleges across the country for Tuesday's festive inauguration of Chancellor Gene D. Block. The ceremonies began with a procession of faculty and honored guests across the UCLA campus to Royce Hall. Alumnus Kareem Abdul-Jabbar delivered the keynote remarks, describing UCLA as "wedged somewhere between Hollywood and our imaginations." Block, in his inaugural address, vowed to build on UCLA's tradition of excellence and laid out an ambitious agenda for the future. "We have before us a remarkable opportunity: to define for California and for the nation what it means to be a public research university in contemporary urban America," Block said.
Lani Guinier, one of the nation's leading civil rights scholars, will be the keynote speaker at the College Access Project for African Americans symposium, organized by UCLA's Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies. She will talk about diversity in higher education.
More than one-third of undergraduates - generally those whose family incomes are below $60,000 - would not have to pay the higher fees as they would be fully covered by grants. The Regents' 16-3 vote came a day after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger restored $98.5 million in proposed cuts to University of California funding.
Also: Sixteen students released after their arrest for protesting fee cuts.
A record 4,889 students representing a broad section of talents, interests and passions have indicated they intend to enroll. The intended freshmen are among 12,579 admitted to UCLA out of a record 55,397 applicants, the most at any U.S. university
The emeritus professor of psychiatry and pharmacology, who died May 8 at his home in Santa Monica, was among the first to study the effects of LSD memory and addiction. He and a UCLA colleague came up with the transdermal nicotine patch.
The donation of $10 million from Laurence D. Fink, chairman and CEO of BlackRock, and his wife, Lori W. Fink, will provide essential funding for the Anderson School of Management's center for finance.
Pharmaceutical product placement in TV shows is a very real possibility that warrants attention from the federal Food and Drug Administration and other policymakers, a UCLA report argues.
In an innovative study, UCLA researchers will see if music, known to interest autistic children, can help open the door to greater emotional recognition.
The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the state's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional, making California the only state other than Massachusetts to uphold the rights of gay couples to wed. According to U.S. Census figures, California has the highest number of same-sex couples in the nation. Several UCLA experts are available to discuss the demographic, economic and legal implications of the ruling.
"Potentially, you could have a lot of those Washington couples coming to California to get married. And then there's going to be a legal question of how they're treated in their home state."
