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• The University of California, Los Angeles has been given a $30 million endowment gift from the Herb Alpert Foundation to support its school of music

  - 2007-12-13

  The UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES has been given a $30 MILLION endowment gift from the Herb Alpert Foundation to support its school of music. In honor of the donor, UCLA renamed the school The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. The endowment is the largest ever made to the...

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• Combating the model minority stereotype: the University of California has established a multi-campus research program to study and develop solutions for problems affecting Asian Americans

  - 2007-09-06

  LOS ANGELES For more than a decade, a group of educational leaders within the University of California system have been working towards a common goal: the development of a statewide think tank that would address the issues of the growing Asian American and Pacific Islander population. In July,...

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• Asian and Pacific Islander students in California say 'count us correctly'

  - 2007-08-23

  When Christine Santos arrived at the University of California, Los Angeles from Guam in the fall of 2004, she said she felt like a foreigner even though nearly 34 percent of new students at UCLA were Asian. Joining the Pacific Islander Student Association made her feel even lonelier and...

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• The University Of California, Los Angeles has received a two-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Institute of Justice to study how justice is administered in American Indian communities

  - 2006-11-30

  The UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES has received a two-year, $1.5 MILLION grant from the National Institute of Justice to study how justice is administered in American Indian communities. UCLA will work with the National Congress of American Indian Policy Research Center on the project.

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• Storing hydrogen in sponges.(research done by University of California (Los Angeles) and University of Michigan)(Brief article)

  - 2006-03-01

  Teams of chemists from the Univ. of California Los Angeles UCLA and the Univ. of Michigan, have uncovered a new "crystal sponge" material capable of storing hydrogen nearly three times more than any other known substance (at a temperature of 77K). The sponge...

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• Setting the diversity research agenda

  - 2006-01-12

  EDUCATION Mitchell J. Chang Title: Associate Professor, Higher Education and Organizational Change Division, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles Education: Ph.D., Education, University of California, Los Angeles; M.Ed., Harvard University; B.A., Personality Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara Age: 40...

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• AvidBiotics granted rights to UCLA's diversity generator platform technology.(University of California (Los Angeles))

  - 2006-01-01

  AvidBiotics Corporation (San Francisco, CA) announced the receipt of an exclusive, worldwide license to the patent rights associated with UCLA's Diversity Generator technology discovered by Jeffery F. Miller, PhD. and colleagues at UCLA. The technology, based upon natural processes that bacteria and bacteriophages use to generate...

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• UCLA sponsors landmark trial.(Briefly Noted)

  - 2005-09-29

  UCLA SPONSORS LANDMARK TRIAL: The Integrated Substance Abuse Program ISAP at University of California, Los Angeles, will sponsor a multi-site, double-blind, placebo-controlled study on Prometa treatment protocol for methamphetamine dependence. Walter Ling, M.D., will serve as the principal investigator. Ling and ISAP have pioneered methamphetamine...

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• NIAID.(Grants & Contracts)(National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases research grant)(Brief Article)

  - 2005-06-21

  NIAID has also awarded the University of California, Los Angeles, $6 million over four years to research countermeasures for bioterrorism, focusing on bacterial pathogens. UCLA will be a major component of the Pacific Southwest Center for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research, a consortium of a...

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• University of California to Pay Fines in Ozone Protection Suit.

  - 2005-03-09

  University of California, Los Angeles UCLA student newspaper the Daily Bruin recently reported that the University of California has agreed to pay $118,404 in fines under a settlement reached late last month with the Environmental Protection Agency EPA over ozone protection violations at the University of...

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