Monday, October 27, 1997
Community Briefs
BRIEFS:
UCLA alumna named president of college
UCLA alumna Dr. Barbara Mossberg has been named president of
Goddard College in Plainfield, Vt.
Mossberg, who studied English and history at UCLA in 1970, has
since then become an international figure in education, earning
numerous accolades, including several Fulbright awards.
Mossberg said, "My experience at UCLA shaped who I am – what I
care about, what I want to do, my goals, my values, my sense of
what is possible and why it matters that we try to do it."
Graduate student strives for clear wine
Under the mentorship of Professor Yorham Cohen of the civil
engineering department, Montse Rovira, a graduate exchange student,
is developing a better method to make wine clear.
During the wine production, the fermentation process leaves
traces of proteins that make wine hazy. Those proteins have to be
removed before sale, and the usual method is to mix egg yolk or ox
blood in with the wine to coagulate the protein, which can then be
drawn out.
Rovira aims to find a cheaper and better way to do draw out the
protein.
Cohen has researched ceramic supported polymer membranes that
facilitate organic-organic separation, including refinery processes
in the petrochemical industry and purification of contaminated
water supplies.
The novel membranes could make separation of chemical mixture
more cost-efficient and less polluting.
Student to dig into nutrition fellowship
A $1,125 graduate scholarship has been awarded to UCLA student
Elizabeth Kozitza by the California Adolescent Nutrition and
Fitness Program.
Canfit awarded Kozitza the scholarship based on her essay, "The
Three Most Important Nutrition or Fitness Challenges Facing
California’s Adolescents … And Here’s What I Would Do."
The program awards four $1,125 graduate scholarships per year to
California minority college students who study nutrition or
physical education.
‘Doonesbury’ skewers Berkeley law school
Students and faculty reading the comics with their morning
coffee last week said they were surprised to find a statement in
the comic strip "Doonesbury" that said the Boalt Hall School of Law
has stopped admitting African American students.
The comic features character Joanie Caucus attending her 20-year
reunion at Boalt Hall. In the comic, as the character checks in,
she is told that the school has hardly changed except that it no
longer admits African Americans.
The comic refers to the recent plummet in minority enrollment at
Boalt Hall. There was only one African American student enrolled
this semester.
Boalt Hall Assistant Dean Lujuana Treadwell said the law school
administration is outraged at the comic.
"It is a cause of concern because it is inaccurate," she said.
"We admitted 15 African Americans this year, and there are close to
50 African American students attending the school right now."
Some of the faculty at the school said that while the comic does
not necessarily portray the law school in the best possible light,
it touches on an issue that still needs to be addressed.
Compiled from Daily Bruin staff and wire reports.