Thursday, May 2, 1996
UCLA’s Arts and Science fellows
Six UCLA faculty members were nationally recognized for "their
contributions to science, scholarship, public affairs and the
arts." The six were elected fellows of the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences for 1996, along with 153 other scholars from across
the country.
UCLA’s honorees are architectural design Professor Franklin
Israel, law Professor Kenneth Karst, political science Professor
Carole Pateman, microbiology and molecular genetics Professor Owen
Witte, history and philosophy Adjunct Professor Richard Popkin and
Anthony Vidler, a professor of art history and architecture and
chair of the art history department.
Hospital named heart of the nation
UCLA surgeons performed 82 heart transplants last year, making
the UCLA Heart Transplant Program the largest in the nation. Since
1984, surgeons at UCLA Medical Center have performed more than 625
heart transplants.
GTE reaches out and touches library
The School of Law recently received its largest corporate grant
 a $350,000 donation from the GTE Foundation. The money will
go toward the $14 million law library renovation, which is expected
to be completed by fall 1997.
Local community service honoree
Second-year medical student Kelly Buller was presented with the
President’s Service Award last week in a White House Rose Garden
ceremony. Buller, 27, was honored for running a homeless shelter
and leading a committee to establish a transitional housing
facility for the needy.
President Clinton gave the award to only 20 recipients
nationwide.
Locally, Buller will receive the Chancellor’s Humanitarian Award
from Chancellor Charles Young later this month.
Landaw to head biomathematics
While the biomathematics department has found a new chair in
Elliot Landaw, he is no stranger to the department.
After earning his medical degree from the University of Chicago,
Landaw came to UCLA to complete his doctorate in biomathematics and
post-graduate medical training in pediatrics.
He has since served as vice chair of the department and will
assume the top post effective July 1.
UCLA forges union with teachers
The Graduate School of Education and Information Studies has
begun a partnership with leaders of 21 of the country’s largest
teachers unions.
The project, funded by a $250,000 grant by the Pew Charitable
Trust, is aimed at restructuring the nation’s teachers unions.
Participants will create a new model for the union that will
hopefully be accepted nationwide.
"Teachers unions  like all labor unions  must
recognize that times are changing, and they have to keep up with
the times," said Helen Bernstein, president of United Teachers, Los
Angeles, in a prepared statement.
"Public schools are under serious threats, and we as teachers
understand we have some responsibility for protecting public
schools and making sure children get a good education," she
said.
Compiled by Daily Bruin staff