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<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 12:46:50 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UCLA Headlines May 18, 2012</title>
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The Head of Phineas Gage
CNN.com reported Wednesday, and Gizmodo reported Thursday, on a study by Jack Van Horn, UCLA assistant professor of neurology, and colleagues examining the brain injuries and brain function of Phineas...<img src="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=693150" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 22:27:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Specialist in microhistory, global trade named to prestigious Armenian chair at UCLA</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Award-winning historian Sebouh David Aslanian will fill the chair originally held by Richard Hovannisian, widely considered the world's dean of Armenian studies.   

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<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 17:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Comprehensive report documents impact of urologic diseases on American public</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The 2012 Urologic Diseases in America was prepared by researchers from UCLA, RAND Health and the National Institutes of Health.<img src="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=693143" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>'Rare' genetic variants are surprisingly common, life scientists report</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Findings from a new survey of human genetic variation could offer clues to the origin and potential treatment of a variety of diseases.<img src="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=693105" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UCLA Headlines May 17, 2012</title>
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<description><![CDATA[IN THE NEWS:
 
How Fructose Disrupts Memory, Learning 
A UCLA study showing that a high-fructose diet can slow the brain and hamper memory and learning in rats &mdash; and how omega-3 fatty acids can minimize the damage &mdash; was...<img src="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=693102" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 22:50:40 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Campus wins court ruling on Japanese garden sale, extends sale process</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A Los Angeles Superior Court judge rejected a request for a temporary restraining order to block UCLA's sale of the Hannah Carter Japanese Garden.
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 20:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Independent report confirms UCLA admissions process working as intended by faculty</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The process continues to give highest weight to academic merit while also considering applicants' full array of personal challenges and achievements.
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Chef Jamie Oliver, UCLA Health System bring life-changing cooking lessons to L.A. youth</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Oliver's "Big Rig" Teaching Kitchen will be on the UCLA campus to teach kids how to prepare healthy meals as part of Food Revolution Day May 19.
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UCLA Headlines May 16, 2012</title>
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<description><![CDATA[IN THE NEWS:
 
How Fructose Disrupts Memory, Learning 
A UCLA study showing that a diet steadily high in fructose slowed the brain and hampered memory and learning in rats was highlighted today by KCBS-Channel 2, KTLA-Channel 5, KABC-Channel 7,...<img src="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=693047" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 23:45:24 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UCLA researchers map damaged connections in Phineas Gage's brain</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In 1848, a 13-pound iron rod sliced through Gage's brain. He survived. Studying that accident, UCLA researchers say, could provide insights into modern-day brain trauma.<img src="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=693044" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Want to avoid ED following prostate surgery? Find an experienced, gentle surgeon</title>
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<description><![CDATA[UCLA researchers found that as surgeons become more skilled and employ new nerve-sparing techniques, erectile-function outcomes improve significantly.<img src="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=693028" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UCLA Headlines May 15, 2012</title>
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<description><![CDATA[IN THE NEWS:
 
The Fed and Unemployment
Britain's May 8 Financial Times featured an op-ed by Roger Farmer, professor and chair of the UCLA Department of Economics, about what the Federal Reserve and other central banks can do to help...<img src="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692990" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 23:21:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Symposium to address freedom of press, safety of journalists in Latin America</title>
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<description><![CDATA[UCLA's May 21 event brings together journalists from Latin America and the U.S. to discuss responses to the murder, kidnapping and coercion of reporters.<img src="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692989" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UCLA faculty experts advisory: Celebrated Mexican author Carlos Fuentes dies</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Acclaimed Mexican novelist and essayist Carlos Fuentes, one of the best-known writers in the Spanish-speaking world, has died in Mexico City at age 83. UCLA has experts.<img src="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692984" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 21:11:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UCLA researchers ID gene variants that speed progression of Parkinson's disease</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The findings could lead to the development of new therapies aimed at helping those patients who could benefit most from early intervention.<img src="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692985" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>This is your brain on sugar: UCLA study shows high-fructose diet sabotages learning, memory</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Attention, college students: Binging on soda and sweets between midterms and finals may make you stupid.<img src="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692978" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Micro-parks for Los Angeles</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A UCLA urban planning professor who devises strategies to turn characterless, unappealing urban streets and sidewalks into inviting, pedestrian-friendly environments is hoping to bring downtown L.A. its first active-recreation parklet.<img src="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692940" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 22:44:23 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Scholar takes on unexplored terrain of Vietnam history and culture</title>
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<description><![CDATA[George Dutton, an associate professor of Southeast Asian studies, credits his lifelong interest in that region of the world to his parents — antiwar activists in the Vietnam War era.<img src="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692938" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 22:38:48 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Doctors, ex-model and others share sad stories of mothers worldwide</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Former supermodel Christy Turlington Burns was at UCLA to discuss her directorial debut, "No Woman, No Cry," which chronicles the stories of at-risk pregnant women from four parts of the world.<img src="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692936" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 22:23:05 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Helping Los Angeles to eat right</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A trio of UCLA public health professors are working to change the food choices that East Los Angeles residents make by renovating convenience stores to highlight fresh produce &mdash; and involving the community in the transformation.<img src="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692935" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 21:28:36 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UCLA Headlines May 14, 2012</title>
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<description><![CDATA[IN THE NEWS:
 
Heart Disease Has Many Faces
KTTV-Channel 11 reported Sunday on a patient being treated for heart disease at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. Dr. Karol Watson, assistant professor of cardiology at the David Geffen School of...<img src="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692933" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 21:19:19 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UCLA study finds promising academic trends at new Watts-area charter high school</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In the four years since historically low-performing Locke High School became a charter, student achievement levels have increased markedly.<img src="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692924" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 16:28:43 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UCLA Headlines May 11, 2012</title>
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<description><![CDATA[IN THE NEWS:
 
You&rsquo;re beautiful, Vesta
New discoveries about the protoplanet Vesta made by NASA's Dawn mission, which is led by Christopher T. Russell, a professor in UCLA's Department of Earth and Space Sciences, were highlighted...<img src="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692853" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 21:38:36 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>10 Questions: Michael Ross on the curse of being oil-rich</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Professor of political science Michael Ross' new book is "The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations," from Princeton University Press.<img src="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692847" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 19:45:51 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UCLA Headlines May 10, 2012</title>
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<description><![CDATA[IN THE NEWS:
 
Obama and Gay Marriage
Brad Sears, a lecturer at the UCLA School of Law and executive director of the school's Williams Institute, was interviewed on KCRW-89.9FM about President Obama&rsquo;s decision to publicly endorse...<img src="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692782" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 23:46:36 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Suspect arrested in UCLA residence hall burglary</title>
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<description><![CDATA[UCLA police have arrested a man in connection with a May 6 burglary that took place in a student's room in a campus residence hall.<img src="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692757" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 19:46:18 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>You're beautiful, Vesta</title>
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<description><![CDATA[NASA's UCLA-led mission to Vesta has yielded a trove of information -- and an appreciation for the protoplanet's mutli-colored, textured surface.<img src="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692749" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 19:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UCLA faculty experts advisory: Obama endorses gay marriage</title>
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<description><![CDATA[President Obama has announced publicly that he supports same-sex marriage. UCLA experts are available to speak about the president's new position on the issue and how it may effect his reelection chances in November.<img src="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692733" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 14:32:19 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UCLA Headlines May 9, 2012</title>
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<description><![CDATA[IN THE NEWS:
 
Pacific Ocean Getting Trashier
The San Jose Mercury News reported Tuesday on a study by researchers from UCLA and other institutions that found that the amount of plastic trash in an area about 1,000 miles west of California...<img src="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692678" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 21:38:37 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>NYU scholar named dean of UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, a professor of globalization and education, will begin his tenure as head of the school on Sept. 1.<img src="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692679" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 21:36:02 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UCLA's Andrea Ghez, Terence Tao elected to American Philosophical Society</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The society, founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin, recognizes extraordinary achievements in science, letters and the arts.<img src="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692676" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 20:55:19 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>California Assembly candidates to meet in UCLA-sponsored forum May 14</title>
<link>http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/assembly-candidates-will-meet-233521.aspx?link_page_rss=233521</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Two Democrats and a Republican competing to represent the 57th District will make opening statements and take questions from panelists and the audience.<img src="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692665" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 18:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UCLA symposium to explore images of nurses and nursing in the media</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The May 10 symposium brings together media analysts, journalists and nursing leaders to discuss how nurses are depicted "from journalism to Hollywood."<img src="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692599" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 23:15:59 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UCLA Headlines May 8, 2012</title>
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<description><![CDATA[IN THE NEWS:
 
Heart Disease Has Many Faces
KTTV-Channel 11 reported Monday on the diversity of patients being treated for heart disease at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. Dr. Karol Watson, assistant professor of cardiology at the David...<img src="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692596" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 21:52:18 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UCLA Alzheimer's and Dementia Care program receives $3.2M Health Care Innovation award</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Health and Human Services awards support innovative programs aimed at saving money, delivering high-quality care and enhancing the health care workforce.<img src="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692591" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UCLA scientists unlock mystery of how 'handedness' arises</title>
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<description><![CDATA[With just two ingredients, microscopic triangles and entropy, the researchers created handedness out of un-handedness. "It's quite bizarre," they say.<img src="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692585" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 18:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>NYU immigration scholar appointed new education dean</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, the Courtney Sale Ross University Professor of Globalization and Education at New York University, has been appointed dean of the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, effective Sept. 1.<img src="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692581" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 16:57:04 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UCLA Headlines May 7, 2012</title>
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<description><![CDATA[IN THE NEWS:
 
Cinco de Mayo, Born in the U.S.A.
A new book by David Hayes-Bautista, professor of medicine and director of the UCLA Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture, exploring the California origins of the Cinco de Mayo...<img src="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692525" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 21:14:05 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>&amp;quot;Cave of the tiger&amp;quot; leads man to home of the Bruins</title>
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<description><![CDATA[U.S. Army Major Jin Park left home at 14 determined to find success in the United States. He will soon graduate from UCLA with a master's degree in East Asian studies, which he will use in his new assignment as a security assistance officer at the U.S. Embassy in Seoul.<img src="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692512" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 18:17:24 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UCLA faculty experts advisory: Election results in France, Russia</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In France, Socialist candidate Francois Hollande defeated incumbent French President Nicolas Sarkozy, promising to renegotiate the euro zone's "austerity" fiscal pact. In Russia, Vladmir Putin returned to the presidency for a third time amid large protests in Moscow. UCLA has experts.<img src="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692499" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 16:07:07 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Six UCLA alumni receive awards for outstanding service and achievements</title>
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<description><![CDATA[UCLA honored six outstanding alumni with UCLA Awards at ceremonies on campus on Friday, May 4.<img src="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692435" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UCLA Headlines May 4, 2012</title>
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<description><![CDATA[IN THE NEWS:
 
Sexual Orientation and Workplace Discrimination
An Associated Press article published today about gay rights groups urging President Obama to issue an executive order outlawing workplace discrimination based on sexual...<img src="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692433" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 22:43:11 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Scientists measure communication between stem cell-derived motor neurons, muscle cells</title>
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<description><![CDATA[By tracking the cells' synaptic activity in a Petri dish, the UCLA researchers hope to gain insight into a variety of disorders, including Lou Gehrig's disease.<img src="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692430" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UCLA Anderson presents conference on Latin American economies, business trends</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The May 14 event will provide key insights on the  important opportunities and challenges that lay ahead for Latin America's economic development.<img src="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692426" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 20:17:45 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UCLA Anderson conference connects aspiring entrepreneurs, veteran industry innovators</title>
<link>http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/ucla-anderson-conference-brings-233502.aspx?link_page_rss=233502</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The May 11 event brings together some 400 M.B.A. students, alumni, entrepreneurs and investors to discuss current topics in entrepreneurship.<img src="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692424" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 19:41:25 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UCLA Headlines May 3, 2012</title>
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Bill Clinton Speaks at UCLA
KTTV-Channel 11 and KTLA-Channel 5 reported Wednesday on former President Bill Clinton's speech at Royce Hall inaugurating the UCLA College of Letters and Science's Luskin Lecture for Thought...<img src="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692352" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 23:43:50 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>2012 Charles E. Young Humanitarian Awards go to three outstanding UCLA students</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The students were honored for their outstanding service to the public in the areas of arts therapy, writing instruction and global health care.<img src="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692350" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 22:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>President Bill Clinton delivers first Luskin Lecture for Thought Leadership at UCLA</title>
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<description><![CDATA[By taking advantage of our global interconectedness, we can help ease inequality, instability and suffering around the world, the president told a packed Royce Hall.<img src="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692345" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 21:15:47 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Fiat Luskin: UCLA honors philanthropic couple with first Fiat Lux Award</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Longtime UCLA supporters Meyer and Renee Luskin were honored at the inaugural Luskin Lecture for Thought Leadership, a speaker series they established.<img src="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692325" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Game on! UCLA researchers use online crowd-sourcing to diagnose malaria</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The new game works on the assumption that large groups of non-experts can be trained to recognize the disease with the accuracy of trained pathologists.<img src="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692273" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UCLA faculty experts advisory: Release of Bin Laden's personal papers</title>
<link>http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/ucla-faculty-experts-advisory-233075.aspx?link_page_rss=233075</link>
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<description><![CDATA[A declassified portion of Osama bin Laden's personal notes and letters, which were seized a year ago in the U.S. raid on his compound in Pakistan, will be published online May 3 by the Combating Terrorism Center, a think tank at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. UCLA has experts.<img src="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=692272" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 23:50:41 GMT</pubDate>
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