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  Encyclopedia: UCLA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The University of California, Los Angeles, popularly known as UCLA, is a public, coeducational university situated in the neighborhood of Westwood within the city of Los Angeles.
In 1933, UCLA was permitted to award the master's degree, and in 1936, the doctorate.
The world-renowned UCLA Medical Center is actually part of a larger healthcare system, UCLA Healthcare, which also operates a hospital in Santa Monica and seven primary care clinics throughout Los Angeles County.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/UCLA   (1298 words)

  
 Middle East Open Encyclopedia: UCLA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In 2005, UCLA announced its five year plan to establish the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Medicine; the state of California is rare in its public funding of research with new embryonic stem cell lines.
UCLA has a very distinguished academic program; in most surveys, it is invariably ranked among the best institutions of higher education on a national and global scale.
In 2005, UCLA was ranked 14th in the world and 12th in North America by an annual listing of the Top 500 World Universities published by the Institute of Higher Education in Shanghai, China.
www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref/index.php?title=UCLA   (2464 words)

  
 UCLA Today: archive 971024
It houses the most faculty members who specialize in Korean studies and the largest number of students studying Korean at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
UCLA Extension was among the first institutions in the U.S. to offer business and finance courses in Korean.
UCLA SCIENTISTS PROBE FRONTIER OF SPACE - Anywhere else, the announcement that researchers had captured an image of what may be the brightest star ever known would qualify as a singularly notable achievement for a university's space-research program.
www.today.ucla.edu /1997/archive971024.html   (1355 words)

  
 “Look at All Those Nouns in a Row”--Authoritarianism, Democracy and
Because Gorbachev and his fellow Politburo members were chosen by exactly the same procedures used to select Brezhnev, the frequencies of diagrams and metaphors of interpersonal distance in political texts of the Gorbachev Politburo can serve as a test whether distancing discourse began to be abandoned before the institutions changed.
Speeches by Politburo members are the obvious candidates for inclusion in the corpora for authoritarianism and for its breakdown.
Politburo members during the authoritarian era communicated distance from the popular audience by using metaphors of size to enlarge themselves and their activities relative to the everyday.
www.polisci.ucla.edu /faculty/anderson/PS191d/chap3newv5.htm   (18046 words)

  
 GuruNet — Content Map
List of notable USC faculty, past and present
List of noteworthy individuals in the Warsaw Uprising
List of Number 1 singles in Australia during the 1980s
www.gurunet.com /cm-dsid-2222-letter-1L-first-23001   (146 words)

  
 Poets&Writers, Inc.
Although strongest in fiction, notable poets on-line are Rita Dove, Laurie O'Brien, Heather McHugh, and Michael McNeilly.
TITN is an anthology of poetry, fiction and non-fiction produced by members of the CREWRT-L Listserv, an electronic bulletin board for a large group of people (currently 300) with common interests in writing, teaching, and computers.
This comprehensive e-zine list provides all known World Wide web and e-mail addresses and abstracts for over 1000 e-zines (as of May 1996) on a wide range of subjects, including a majority of literary ones.
www.pw.org /mag/ezines.htm   (2465 words)

  
 UCLA Library Sub-Saharan Africa
UCLA Library holdings are listed in MELVYL®, the University of California system-wide library information system.
African studies faculty at UCLA reside in their respective academic departments and professional schools but are affiliated to the JSCASC, which provides a forum for interaction and exchange of ideas among faculty, the Center's visiting scholars and fellows, students and members of the community.
UCLA's interdisciplinary program in African area studies offers courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels in a wide range of fields, including arts and humanities, social sciences, and professional fields.
www.library.ucla.edu /libraries/url/colls/ssafrica   (2344 words)

  
 UCLA Library News for the Faculty: Volume 13 Number 3 Fall 1998
This fall the UCLA Library will invite faculty members who are editors of scholarly journals to participate in a roundtable discussion about supply-and-demand issues associated with scholarly publishing.
UCLA faculty, staff, and students may have noticed a new name on the Research Library and a new look for its entrance area.
UCLA is among the first universities to purchase this complex system, and the cutting-edge strategies that it employs to organize and deliver information require additional testing and refinement.
www.library.ucla.edu /publications/facnews/pastissues/v13n3.html   (2544 words)

  
 Perfect Words: Faculty List
She is a member of Travel Journalists Guild, Society of American Travel Writers and American Society of Journalists and Authors.
Her undergraduate education in the humanities was followed by intensive courses in Russian at Indiana University and graduate study in Russian literature, poetry, and folklore at the University of Toronto.
Prichard is among those faculty members who have agreed to participate in critiques and one-on-one consultations with writers.
members.aol.com /faulkhouse/faulty.html   (18448 words)

  
 List of notable UCLA faculty members - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rudolf Carnap - philosopher of math and science; member of the Vienna Circle
Al Gore - visiting professor in the School of Public Policy and Social Research, Department of Policy Studies, (family-centered community building), former vice-president of the United States of America [2]
Steve Soboroff - Senior Fellow, UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research [3]; President, Playa Vista; Former Senior Advisor to the Mayor of Los Angeles; Former Los Angeles Parks Commissioner; Candidate for Mayor of Los Angeles (2001)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_notable_UCLA_faculty_members   (441 words)

  
 Moot Court at UCLA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The focus is on appellate advocacy, and the judges consist primarily of local members of the bench and bar.
To be an Honors Member, you must participate in at least one round of Oral Advocacy in the Spring Competition.
Only members of the Moot Court Honors Program are eligible to participate in the Roscoe Pound Tournament, and the advocates must have received a minimum score of 30 on their spring brief to qualify.
www.law.ucla.edu /moot/program_description.htm   (1956 words)

  
 Eugene Volokh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Before coming to UCLA, he clerked for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court and for Judge Alex Kozinski on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
He is a member of the The American Law Institute.
Founder and list operator of the religionlaw@listserv.ucla.edu discussion list, an Internet electronic conference involving many of the top scholars on the law of government and religion.
www.law.ucla.edu /faculty/volokh/common.htm   (2708 words)

  
 Faculty news archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Two other inventions by ISR faculty members were finalists for the award: Ben Shneiderman's (CS/ISR) "Direct Annotation For Digital Images" and "IMPACT Agent Development System," developed by V.S. Subrahmanian (CS/ISR), Carolyn Gasarch, Fatma Ozcan, Robert Ross, Jason Ernst, Thomas Eiter, Sarit Kraus, Juergen Dix, Timothy Rogers, Mustafa Tikir and Anatoliu Levkov.
IEEE members are selected by this award by their peers for their outstanding contributions in their field.
Class members are preparing a vehicle to race in the 1999 HPV competition sponsored by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in California this coming April.
www.isr.umd.edu /ISR/archivenews/facultynewsA-L.html   (4020 words)

  
  
In analyzing the results of this survey based on responses from 2,395 public library staff members, Bryan not only provided benchmark data, but also documented the unfairness of the dual career structure in a field where ninety-two percent of the public librarians were female, but directorships of major public libraries nearly always went to men.
The overarching goal of this study is to examine the dynamic social processes and significant relationships, such as mentoring, that have shaped the career goals and aspirations of female library educators.
Examines the role of mentoring in the lives of one group of academic women: women faculty in library and information science; during the past 50 years, based on the work of scholars in anthropology, sociology, and women's studies.
www.gseis.ucla.edu /faculty/maack/Papers.htm   (3630 words)

  
 National Academy of Education Members   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
She is the founder and chair of the management committee of the Consortium for Policy Research in Education and a member of the board of trustees of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
In addition to NAE, she is a member of the National Academy of Public Administration, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Social Insurance, and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.
Charter Academy member John I. Goodlad currently is professor emeritus at the University of Washington and president of the nonprofit Institute for Educational Inquiry in Seattle.
www.nae.nyu.edu /staff   (16291 words)

  
 Integrating Internet Instruction in the Elementary Classroom: Building a Foundation for Information Literacy
One notable exception is Linn’s development of the Knowledge Integration Environment <16>, a hypercard stack with pointers on how to find an use scientific information on the Internet, that help students ages ten to fourteen ponder scientific questions.
One of the interns was a senior librarian in the UCLA University Research Library with a graduate degree in education; another was an extension student with computer background, and the other four were graduate students in Education.
A team member who was considered to be an "Internet expert" then became the tutor for the team, who would guide the other students in their searches.
www.gseis.ucla.edu /faculty/bates/articles/Ed_Internet_Kafai-h_960624.html   (6614 words)

  
 ASHE Newsletter
Today, 213 programs in higher education are listed on the ASHE website within the U.S. The rapid post secondary expansion in the post WW II era which drove this demand and the struggle for financial diversity, performance-based faculty salary structures, department-level management, and long-term strategic planning, now have parallels in many parts of the world.
ASHE members doing research on international and comparative topics are encouraged to submit proposals for the 2003 meeting in Portland, and to also make use of the online discussion list as a means of extending the dialogue on international topics of mutual interest.
The solitary nature of the academic life, especially for the junior faculty member where retreat into one's teaching and research is critical to meet the scholarship requirements of tenure, therefore stands in stark opposition to what we know.
www.ashe.ws /newsletter/contents.htm   (13899 words)

  
 Category:University of California, Los Angeles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of University of California, Los Angeles people
UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
This page was last modified 14:53, 23 July 2005.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:University_of_California,_Los_Angeles   (82 words)

  
 Integration policy and integration research in Europe:
At different stages of this long migration-settlement process, what each is then faced with implementing is a series of provisions, policies and social interventions which together might be seen to add up to an ‘integration policy’.
Immigration control, on the other hand, is a different matter entirely, and many of Britain’s biggest problems today derive from the fact its thinking on this question has very little in it to deal with the challenges of new migration and the global refugee crisis in the 1980s and 90s.
The PSI is also notable as one of a battery of new-left think tank groups that have risen to prominence in the 1990s, and which now have a strong presence in the policy circles of the current government.
www.sscnet.ucla.edu /soc/faculty/favell/CARN-PUB.htm   (8899 words)

  
 LIBRARY FACULTY GUIDELINES:
Notable job performance indicates that the individual candidate has a sustained record of surpassing the merely satisfactory level of job performance.
The list is not intended to be comprehensive but, rather, to provide an idea of appropriate activities.
Candidates should be aware that library faculty are not expected to have an entry for every subheading in the vita.
www.lib.lsu.edu /committees/lfpc/guidelines   (3750 words)

  
 Forces, Trends, Opportunities in OR
It bears pointing out that there may be a slightly devious way to accomplish much the same effect as b) without actually requiring universities to change at all: ORSA and TIMS could simply tilt their publication criteria in the direction of integrative and applied work.
One reason is that the (complete) list of topical areas "deserving greater emphasis" in NRC (1989) are: probability, exploratory data analysis, model-building, operations research, and discrete mathematics.
There are numerous notable exceptions, but only a small proportion of all senior managers recognize the wide applicability of MS/OR within their organizations and insist on strengthening their MS/OR infrastructure.
www.anderson.ucla.edu /faculty/art.geoffrion/home/docs/forces2.htm   (14651 words)

  
 Statistics on the Web   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
List of papers by UCLA Stat faculty, some software demos, and an interesting Hypertext Intro Stat Textbook (currently under construction).
Lists a couple of texts as "related book titles", but it's unclear if these books actually refer to this package, or if they just cover some of the methods implemented by the program.
Most notable is its list of documents from statistics departments of universities worldwide.
my.execpc.com /~helberg/statistics.html   (4923 words)

  
 EPIC Advisory Board
She joined the faculty of the University of South Carolina School of Law in 2000, having previously taught at the University of Dayton School of Law and the University of Idaho School of Law.
From 1981 through June 1996 she was a member of the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh Law School, from which she visited at Columbia, Cornell, and Emory Law Schools.
Most notable, he was a Loaned Executive from IBM to the small disadvantaged business community where he developed a national network of technology companies owned by female and minority entrepreneurs.
www.epic.org /epic/advisory_board.html   (6824 words)

  
 Leiter Reports
I hope that faculty members realize that in most cases, however wrong this may seem, a faculty's feedback and respect for a graduate student is all a graduate student has to work with.
All eight members up for re-election to the Pennsylvania school board that had been sued for introducing the teaching of intelligent design as an alternative to evolution in biology class were swept out of office yesterday by a slate of challengers who campaigned against the intelligent design policy.
Among the losing incumbents on the Dover, Pa., board were two members who testified in favor of the intelligent design policy at a recently concluded federal trial on the Dover policy: the chairwoman, Sheila Harkins, and Alan Bonsell.
leiterreports.typepad.com /blog   (10546 words)

  
 InvestorFLIX - Author List
A graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, she is a member of the New York and California Bar Associations.
He is a member of the Market Technicians Association (MTA) and is currently serving on their board of directors.
Fred is a faculty member of the NYIF, regularly lectures on technical analysis at financial conferences around the world, and is a periodic guest on the CNBC television station’s “Tech Talk” show.
flix.ino.com /preview/allauthors.html?letter=all   (16066 words)

  
 Cartography - Archive 2000 Calendar of Events
Members bring something from their collection, talk about it for about five minutes or so, or ask if anyone can identify it.
Faculty members are encouraged to call the seminar to the attention of graduate students.
Members will be especially interested in some of the maps in the collection, including the lost map of Jerusalem.
home.earthlink.net /~docktor/2000.htm   (14189 words)

  
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A new study, the final version of which is about to appear in the Georgetown Law Journal, has researched the campaign contributions ($200 or more) of professors at America's top 21 law schools over eleven years.
A study of the party political affiliation of law faculty has established that Chicago's law profs include 55 Democrats and 8 Republicans—a ratio of about 7 to 1.
The great thing about a virtual series is that audience members can come and go as they please, and the lecturer doesn't have to answer pesky questions.
www.martinkramer.org /pages/899529/page899529.html?refresh=1123166933357   (6360 words)

  
 UCR News: New Faculty Members Bring Skills, Artistry to UC Riverside
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (www.ucr.edu) — New faculty members at UC Riverside include 20 new professors in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences who have wide-ranging interests, from hip-hop theater to Native American Studies, to Southeast Asian Studies, to writing award-winning fiction.
She currently is “faculty in residence” at Pentland Hills, a residence hall at UC Riverside.
She is the first faculty member to live at a residence hall in the campus’ 50-year history, part of a pilot program to help honors students have more informal access to a faculty member.
www.newsroom.ucr.edu /cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=686   (2392 words)

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