Thursday, April 25, 1996
Health Policy receives donation
The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research received a $458,000
grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to evaluate a project
designed to reduce costs and improve medial care in California’s
workers-compensation system.
The grant will be used to conduct a three-year evaluation of a
state project that combines medical benefits for occupational and
non-occupational injuries and illness.
Researchers will assess the impact of California’s pilot program
on various aspects of the workers compensation system.
Study links cancer to alcohol consumption
Researchers at the School of Medicine and colleagues have shown
a link between acute alcohol consumption and the spread of
cancerous tumors in laboratory rats.
Published in a recent issue of the journal Nature Medicine, the
study showed that even a one-time dramatic increase in
blood-alcohol levels of laboratory rats with cancer may increase
the spread of tumor cells.
The findings have important implications for future studies but
are preliminary in terms of human applications, said neurobiology
Professor Anna Taylor.
"The link between cancer spread and alcohol intake is
well-documented, and further work in this are may indeed establish
a definite correlation between the two," Taylor said in a
statement.
Guggenheim Fellowship winner
UCLA Chemistry Professor Richard Kaner was among 158 recipients
of the Guggenheim Fellowship Awards recently.
Appointed for his work in the synthesis and characterization of
metallofullerenes, Kaner will share the $4.5 million in fellowship
awards.
Guggenheim Fellows are appointed on the basis of unusually
distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for
future accomplishment, according to a statement from the
foundation.
While Kaner was the only recipient from UCLA, other winners were
chosen from disciplines as varied as photography, choreography and
physical and biological sciences.
Donation to help archive collection
Two important collections of Korean books, documents, and a
documentary were recently donated to the University Research
Library.
The Hei Sop Chin and Hyung-ju Ahn collection features a
30-minute documentary film on the Korean-American community in
Hawaii, produced in 1947.
Other donated historical artifacts include original cablegrams
from 1919 to 1945 and financial records documenting donations that
Korean immigrant organizations in America gave in support of the
Korean independence movement.
"These archival collections will provide … original
documentation from which to understand the thoughts, actions, and
dreams of Korean Americans" said Don Nakanishi, director of the
Asian American Studies Center.