Wednesday, October 14, 1998
Community Briefs
Researcher awarded $3 million to study
The National Institute on Drug Abuse has awarded has awarded
$3.16 million to nursing professor Adeline Nyamathi for a five-year
study to determine the best way to prevent tuberculosis among
homeless men and women.
The grant will allow researchers to establish a prevention
project in the Skid Row area of downtown Los Angeles to determine
whether providing special education programs to homeless people
infected with tuberculosis increases compliance with medication
therapy.
UCLA researchers from the schools of medicine and public health
will join efforts to determine whether providing homeless men and
women with an eight-week, nurse-taught educational course about
tuberculosis and HIV-prevention will increase their compliance with
medication therapy and reduce behaviors that put them at risk of
HIV infection. Researchers hope to enroll 600 homeless men and
women in the project.
The federal grant, the fifth in a series of grants over the past
11 years, supports the work of Nyamathi and her research group in
their study of the health needs of homeless men and women,
particularly as it relates to HIV and other infectious
diseases.
Anderson School wins Brillante Award
The National Society of Hispanic MBAs has awarded The Anderson
School at UCLA with the 1998 Brillante Award in the educational
institutional category.
The school was honored for its significant contributions to
increase the awareness and opportunities of getting an MBA within
the Hispanic community.
Despite the end of affirmative action on on UC campuses,
Anderson has remained committed to promoting diversity through such
successful initiatives as the Riordan program, LEARN, Destination
MBA, and MBA Forums. Active organizations such as the 20-year-old
Latino Management Student Association and its alumni counterpart
provide continuous support and networking opportunities to
Anderson’s Hispanic Community.
American Indian Center receives major grant
UCLA’s American Indian Studies Center was recently awarded a
three-year, $336,793 grant from the U.S. Department of Education to
introduce innovative curricula, strengthen course offerings and
establish a two-year Associate of Arts degree program in Indian
justice systems at tribal community colleges throughout the
country.
The funds will be used to establish Project Peacemaker, an
initiative designed to empower Native American people and their
communities, as well as increase equity, access and success for
Native American students pursuing higher education, particularly in
law-related fields.
"Through Project Peacemaker, UCLA will work with four tribal
universities to establish Indian justice systems as a subject of
study, education and community development based upon Native
perspectives, customs, traditions, common law, culture and
traditional dispute resolution," said project co-director Duane
Champagne, a professor of sociology and director of UCLA"s American
Indian Studies Center.
Champagne said the program will prepare Native American students
for careers in law, government, education, social services,
environmental protection and economic development in tribal
communities. As a pipeline for students interested in law school
and other higher education opportunities, Project Peacemeaker will
assist them in their transition into bachelor’s and graduate degree
programs the workforce and law-related fields.
Compiled from Daily Bruin staff reports.
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