The Chronicle of Higher Education reports today on the role of Robert Cargill, instructional technology coordinator for the UCLA Center for Digital Humanities, in tracking down a suspected academic cyber-bully. The suspect, Raphael Golb, son of University of Chicago history professor Norman Golb, was arrested March 5 and is accused of using fabricated and stolen identities on the Internet to attack opponents of his father's theories about the Dead Sea Scrolls. Cargill is quoted. William Schniedewind, UCLA professor of Near Eastern languages and cultures, is cited.

 

The Associated Press reported Thursday that a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge has voided a contempt-of-court conviction against an anti–animal research extremist who harassed UCLA researchers and has scheduled new trial for April 28.

 

An article in Thursday’s San Jose Mercury News on the 20th anniversary of the Internet highlights the important role played by Leonard Kleinrock, UCLA distinguished professor of computer science, who developed the theories and technologies that made the Internet possible. Kleinrock was quoted.

 

UCLA English professor Eric Jager was featured Thursday in an ABC “Good Morning America” piece exploring the history of the Czech Republic's Prague Castle — the largest castle in the world.

 

Dr. Rex Hamilton, director of the Laser Refractive Center at UCLA's Jules Stein Eye Institute, was interviewed for the CBS program "The Doctors" about "floaters" — small pieces of debris that float across the eye’s field of vision. The show aired Thursday on KCAL-Channel 9.

 

The Christian Science Monitor reports today on a recent arson attack by anti–animal research extremists that destroyed a vehicle belonging to a UCLA faculty member. UCLA Chancellor Gene Block was cited.

 

An editorial in Thursday's Investor’s Business Daily highlighted a survey conducted by the Cooperative Institutional Research Program at UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute that looked at the views of college faculty across the country on a variety of issues, including career satisfaction and goals for undergraduate education.

 

 

Berns, director of the Fowler Museum at UCLA, is quoted today in a Christian Science Monitor article about Ethiopian artist Elias Sime.

 

Dietz, clinical professor of psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, was quoted Thursday in a Bloomberg article about how Bernard Madoff will fare in prison.

 

Fonarow, UCLA's Eliot Corday Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Science and director of the Ahmanson–UCLA Cardiomyopathy Center, is quoted today in a HealthDay News article about findings that firefighters are more likely to have prematurely narrowed arteries. He was quoted Thursday in a HealthDay News article about research suggesting that treatment of heart patients with non-acute heart problems should begin with drug therapy.

 

Lichtman, UCLA professor of law, was quoted Thursday in a Chronicle of Higher Education article about a case against a college student accused of illegally downloading copyrighted material from the Internet.

 

Sellars, UCLA professor of world arts and cultures, is quoted today in a Christian Science Monitor article about Ethiopian artist Elias Sime.