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SOME TEXTOctober 07, 2008
'Dribble for the Cure' supports pediatric cancer research, treatments
WHAT:
Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA joins forces with the UCLA men's basketball team, the UCLA Athletics Department and the Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation to present the first-ever "Dribble for the Cure," which will feature sponsored...
August 26, 2008
Symposium explores role of genes, race, health care disparities in HIV spread
WHAT:
This half-day symposium, featuring speakers and panelists from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Cancer Institute, the UCLA AIDS Institute, and the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA,...
May 15, 2008
Award-winning film, panel focus on reproductive health, abortion
UCLA will screen "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days," a film about a woman's efforts to obtain an illegal abortion in 1980s Romania, as part of a program titled "Politics, Law and Women's Health: Romanian and U.S. Experiences." The film, which won the 2007 Cannes Film Festival Palme D'Or prize, will be followed by a panel discussion about the lessons to be learned from Romania's reproductive health policies and about doctors' experiences both in Romania and the U.S. when contraception was restricted and abortion was outlawed.
February 05, 2008
UCLA offers workshop on the health benefits of drumming
The UCLA Arts and Healing program will offer a workshop on the health benefits of drumming, including scientific evidence from integrative medicine, from 7 to 9 p.m. on Monday, March 10.
Led by internationally acclaimed author and music therapist...
November 15, 2007
Senior Scholars program offers learning opportunities for older adults
If you could go back to school, what would you pursue?
Senior Scholars, a unique education program offered by the UCLA Center on Aging, gives people age 50 and over the opportunity to expand their learning by attending undergraduate classes...
March 07, 2007
UCLA to Host Cancer Survivorship Education Day Focusing on Critical Issues That Will Help Survivors Improve Quality of Life
Calendar Listing
UCLA to Host Cancer Survivorship Education Day; Focus
is on
Critical Issues that will Help Survivors Improve
Quality of Life
WHAT:
The UCLA-LIVESTRONG Survivorship
Center of Excellence is holding a day-lon...
November 08, 2005
Leading British Alternative Medicine Expert Lectures
Rachel Champeau For Immediate Release
(310) 794-0777
CALENDAR LISTING:
LEADING BRITISH ALTERNATIVE
MEDICIN...
September 01, 2005
News and feature leads, September 2005
UCLA Students Move Into Residence Halls as They Prepare
for Classes to Begin
Thousands
of freshmen will take their first step to start college life as they move into
the residence halls on Sept. 23. The freshmen and other undergraduates will be
bringin...
July 01, 2005
News and feature leads -- July 2005
New building 'goes green'
UCLA's most recent structure is expected to be the first
facility on campus to receive certification from the U.S. Green Building
Council for meeting stringent environmental criteria. Among other
environmentall...
April 01, 2005
News and feature leads -- April 2005
Revamped SAT produces concern
An essay requirement and other changes to the Scholastic Aptitude Test,
being administered this spring to high school students across the country, is a
reminder of the long-standing debate about the SAT's effectivenes...
