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From A-bombs to Imaginariums, Oppenheimer is focus of book tour, Monday colloquium

October 15, 2009

Award-winning science writer and University of Southern California Annenberg School of Journalism professor KC Cole will speak here Monday (Oct. 19) about her new biographical memoir of atomic bomb developer Frank Oppenheimer.


Occidental College Honors Avant-Garde Filmmaker Chick Strand

September 10, 2009

Occidental College will pay tribute on Saturday, Oct. 3, to legendary experimental filmmaker and longtime Oxy professor Chick Strand. Strand died on July 11 at age 78.


'Green conscious' art at IU: SoFA Gallery to present exhibit on climate change

August 13, 2009

Activist art comes to Indiana University Bloomington in September when the School of Fine Arts (SoFA) Gallery presents "The Canary Project: Works on Climate Change 2006-2009," a new exhibit that opens Friday, Sept. 4, and runs through Friday, Oct. 9.


Family Center Youths Get Meals

August 12, 2009

When the Los Angeles Unified School District announced in May it was canceling summer school for elementary and middle schools, many observers thought about children having nothing to do; few realized many of them would also be missing meals.


IU Jacobs School of Music appoints organist Jeffrey Smith to faculty

July 30, 2009

Coinciding with the installation of a new pipe organ in Indiana University's Auer Hall, the Jacobs School of Music today (July 30) announced the appointment of acclaimed organist Jeffrey Smith, who will join the Jacobs faculty roster as a visiting associate professor in the fall of 2009.


A tremendous “capstone”: Rosowsky completes five-year earthquake research project

July 28, 2009

Civil engineering's David Rosowsky has been a PI on an NSF project that set out to design mid-rise wood structures for high seismic regions.


True Colors Shine Through Golden Years

July 24, 2009

The cadre of USC alumni who had earned their bachelor's degrees at least 50 years earlier met for the first time the morning of June 11, 1949.


Long-term care costs exceed yearly income for many Calif. seniors living alone

June 18, 2009

(To see the data, visit www.healthpolicy.ucla.edu/news_06182009b.html.)
 
In Los Angeles County, being disabled can cost a year's income.


Two altruistic donors launch rare kidney transplant chains at UCLA

June 15, 2009

One is a Michigan firefighter who wanted to honor the memory of his son, who died at age 24 in a tragic snowmobile accident. The other is an Air Force technical sergeant from Iowa who specializes in intelligence analysis.


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