Sunday, November 15

Carnesale discusses possible war

Taking part in the growing national debate on Iraq, Chancellor Albert Carnesale, UCLA’s resident expert in national security, said in an interview Tuesday that the United States should not go to war with Iraq with the sole objective of removing Saddam Hussein from power. Read more...


UCLA psychiatry professor dies

Herbert Weiner, professor emeritus at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine, died Nov. 12 of lung cancer at his home in Encino. He was 81. Weiner was a psychiatry professor at UCLA from 1982 up until his retirement last year. Read more...


Biotechnology advances allow control of protein activity

Researchers at UCLA, in collaboration with scientists at Duke University and Sandia National Laboratories, have made an advance in modifying biochemical systems. In an article published in the November issue of Nature Materials, researchers reported that they could modify a naturally occurring protein by adding an on/off switch, which allows it to be deactivated by the addition of a single atom. Read more...



Briefs

UCLA professors named in list of “˜visionaries’ UCLA chemistry professor James R. Heath and neuroscientist Gary W. Small were named by Scientific American magazine as one of the “Scientific American 50″ visionaries in the world of research. Read more...