UCLA Headlines August 15, 2008

 

Today’s Korea Herald features an interview with Robert Buswell, UCLA professor of Asian languages and cultures and director of the UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies, about the current state of Korean studies programs at North American universities.

 

Today’s Los Angeles Times features a review of “The Exiles,” a 1961 film about a group of Native Americans living in Los Angeles’ Bunker Hill neighborhood, which was recently restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive preservationist Ross Lipman. The film is currently being shown at UCLA’s Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum.

 

Today’s New York Times features a review of “Idle Youth,” a group art show in New York City curated by Russell Ferguson, professor and chair of the UCLA Department of Art.

 

Today’s Los Angeles Times features a review of several conceptual installations by artist Mungo Thomson currently on display at the UCLA Hammer Museum.

 

 

 

Ohanian, professor of economics and vice chair of undergraduate studies for the UCLA Department of Economics, is quoted today in a Los Angeles Times article about the worsening U.S. economy.

 

Saver, clinical professor of neurology and director of the stroke center at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, is quoted today in a Sydney Morning Herald story about a new program designed to improve emergency stroke care in Australia.

 

Zazloff, UCLA professor of law, comments today in a New York Times article about California’s budget crisis.