Saturday, November 7



UCLA law students create guide for best practices for foreign witness protection programs after research abroad

Over the course of a year, 12 students in the UCLA School of Law International Justice Clinic traveled abroad to study witness protection for women who are victims of sexual violence in armed conflict societies. Read more...

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From right: Law students Nicolle Kownacki, Farnoosh Hashemian and Priyan Chandraratna presented their research on witness protection programs to the members of the International Justice Clinic.




Closure of NASA’s space shuttle program to limit UCLA research

UCLA physics and astronomy professors fondly recollect the space shuttle Challenger's first landing from orbit "“ the crowds of half a million, the thundering noises and the desert heat. In the coming years, no such memories will be made. Read more...

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Mike Rich (left), a UCLA research astronomer, and Matt Malkan, a UCLA physics and astronomy professor, rely on information from the NASA space shuttle program, which will end in June with Atlantis’ final flight. The program completed more than 100 missions and placed the Hubble Space Telescope above Earth.