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NSF honors UCLA research programs

The National Science Foundation Tuesday named UCLA as one of 10
universities nationwide chosen to receive its first Recognition
Award for the Integration of Research and Education.

The National Science Foundation praised UCLA for using a
"systemic approach to integrate research and education" at the
undergraduate level. The award provides $500,000 over three years
for the university to build upon its achievements.

Among the programs at UCLA that integrate research and education
are the Student Research Program, which links undergraduates with
faculty who are actively engaged in research at UCLA; independent
research and honors research projects that provide major and degree
credit for participants; and four major programs combining research
and student outreach for under-represented students.

"UCLA is grateful to the National Science Foundation for its
support of our growing number of innovative programs that integrate
research with education," Chancellor Charles E. Young said in a
statement.

"While UCLA stands among the ranks of the world’s premier
research universities, we are dedicated first and foremost to
superior undergraduate education."

The National Science Foundation is an independent U.S.
government agency that is responsible for promoting science and
engineering through programs that invest more than $3.3 billion per
year in nearly 20,000 research and education projects in the fields
of science and engineering.

Among the other universities to be honored are the universities
of Arizona, Delaware, Michigan, Missouri, Oregon, Carnegie Mellon,
Duke, Kansas State and the State University of New York at Stony
Brook. Award recipients will be honored at a National Science Board
ceremony on Feb. 21 in Arlington, Va.

Hospital receives donation for kids

UCLA Children’s Hospital received a truckload of new teddy bears
donated by Hadassah Southern California/Metro Area on Jan. 29.

"We’re extremely pleased to accept this donation from Hadassah,"
said Dr. Edward R.B. McCabe, physician-in-chief at UCLA Children’s
Hospital. "Children who are sick and in the hospital are comforted
by stuffed toys."

Hadassah, the largest women’s and Zionist membership
organization in the United States, is internationally acclaimed for
its commitment to healing, teaching and research in the
community.

UCLA Children’s Hospital, which houses the country’s leading
pediatric organ transplant program, serves more than 36,000
patients each year. Its Child Life/Child Development Program
provides emotional support to hospitalized children and their
families.

French physicist to speak Thursday and Friday

French physicist Helene Langevin-Joliot, granddaughter of Nobel
Laureates Marie and Pierre Curie will give a lecture on Feb. 13 at
Cal State Northridge and Feb. 14 at UCLA.

Langevin-Joliot’s lecture, titled "The Curies, Radioactivity,
and Women in Science and Education," will include a history of
radiochemistry and her own personal reflections as heir to the
Curie family legacy.

At Cal State Northridge on Feb. 13, Langevin-Joliot will present
her lecture at 1 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center, University
Student Union. At UCLA on Feb. 14, she will speak at 3 p.m. in
Franz Hall, Room 1178.

Langevin-Joliot, 69, received her doctorate in nuclear physics
and chemistry from the College de France at Paris-Sud XI at Orsay.
She is currently the director of research emeritus at the Centre
Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique.

Compiled from Daily Bruin staff reports.