Green Party to come to UCLA
The entire statewide Green Party slate of candidates for the
2002 election will dine in the Grand Salon in Kerckhoff hall
Saturday night.
Gubernatorial candidate Peter Camejo will head up the list of
Green party members and Antonia Gonzalez, the leader of a
multi-slate Latino organization designed to increase the number of
Latinos running for public office, will be the event’s
keynote speaker.
The dinner will mark the first official meeting of the
California Green party since it was formally recognized by the
Federal Election Commission 10 years ago.
There are currently 140,000 registered Green party members in
California.
Saturday night’s event is open to the public for a
requested $15 donation.
Infant testing now available
The California Department of Health Services is launching a
large-scale research project that will provide testing for
additional metabolic disorders in newborns.
Beginning this month, infants can be tested for up to 30
additional metabolic conditions.
The tests are done in a single process by using dried blood spot
specimens.
The pilot period of this research project will last
approximately 12-18 months.
California is one of only a few states to take part in the
additional tests.
California has about 500,000 live births each year; about 1 in
6,000 is expected to be diagnosed with one of the metabolic
disorders.
Contact the Mattel’s Children Hospital for more
information.
$500,000 grant to sociology
The Department of Social Welfare at the UCLA School of Public
Policy and Social Research has received a $500,000 Initiative in
Aging grant from the Hearst Foundations.
UCLA was one of five schools of social work nationwide to
receive the award, part of a $5 million initiative created to
encourage master’s-level students to choose aging as an area
of specialization.
They are hopeful that increasing the number of aging-trained
social workers will help many older people maximize their
functioning and enhance their abilities to actively engage in life,
said Robert M. Frehse Jr., executive director of the Hearst
Foundation and the William Randolph Hearst Foundation.
Reports from Daily Bruin wire services.