Friday, August 14

In the news:

Society, genetics major expected for fall 2010

One of Professor Richard Delerins' favorite cuisine recipes is a paleo-cuisine diet dating more than 1,200 years ago and concocted with raw fish, edible flowers, grains of paradise and edible paper from Africa, Delerins said. Read more...



Idealized Peru veils country’s problems

There came a point when I abandoned the remnants of cultural sensitivity and embraced the crass objectification of culture. My perception of Peru developed while in my host environment. Through multiple exposures with locals and non-locals I saw something more common than unique "“ the Peruvians seem to see artifacts as financial opportunity whereas Western researchers value its cultural value. Read more...


Passion for past drives research

PUNO, PERU "”mdash; Elizabeth Klarich first met Charles "Chip" Stanish, director of the UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, in 1994 when she was at her Chicago high school's career day listening to his description of the field archaeologist's way of life. Read more...



UC students mobilize for meeting

Last week, students at UC Irvine began a handwritten-letter campaign to the UC Board of Regents and garnered upward of 100 personal letters from students who voiced their concerns about the University of California budget and lack of state funding. Read more...