Author Archives: Saba Riazati

Searching for a new chancellor Hover over the scroll and click the links below to read past stories about the chancellor search. Sept. 7, 2005 Chancellor Albert Carnesale announces plans to step down on June 30, 2006. Dec. 2, 2005 An advisory search committee is named by UC President Robert Dynes. Dec. 8, 2005 The […]

“Mom, I have a girlfriend,” Jennifer Partnoff recalls telling her mom two years ago. Her mother responded, “You do know what it says in the Bible, don’t you? You are sinning Jennifer.” Partnoff’s mother died about a year and a half later, after having eventually come to terms with her daughter’s sexual orientation. Sex and […]

For many years Mustafa Abdul-Hamid has followed the fasting tradition of the Islam religion during Ramadan, but this year he won’t be able to do it. Ramadan, which began on Sept. 13, signaled the start of the fasting period. But this year, to some students it will signal the reality that religious steadfastness can be […]

When a prospective college student walks by the seemingly endless shelves of college guide books that rank universities across the nation based on tuition, housing, faculty ratios and other criteria, he may notice a shiny yellow book that offers a dimension of criteria entirely ignored until now. A new college guide purely based on how […]

Almost half a century ago, a man began his relationship with UCLA. He taught, served as an administrator, and taught some more over the tenures of almost half of UCLA’s chancellors. His tall shadow can be traced walking around campus admiring the architecture and interacting with students along his path. The same man will continue […]

By the age of 7, many people are still trying to grasp the concept of adding apples and oranges. At the same age, Terence Tao was busy manipulating digits in math class to earn a high school diploma. Tao, the first UCLA professor to receive a Fields Medal award in mathematics, was awarded the 48th […]

In two weeks, a vaccine clinically proven to prevent four volatile subtypes of the human papilloma virus will be available to the public, a landmark in the health sciences as this vaccine could help prevent future cases of genital warts and cervical cancers caused by HPV. UCLA has played a vital role in validating the […]