Briefs

UCLA Foundation elects president

Chancellor Albert Carnesale announced that Peter J. Taylor will
be the new president-elect of the UCLA Foundation.

The UCLA Foundation is a nonprofit corporation that receives and
invests privates gifts to the university.

Taylor will succeed Keenan Behrle on July 1, 2002.

“Thanks to the hard work of all the foundation’s
members, UCLA continues to build on its strengths and explore new
frontiers of knowledge,” Carnesale said.

“This commitment to enhancing private support helps keep
UCLA at the forefront of education, research and public
service,” he continued.

Taylor earned his bachelor’s degree in political science
from UCLA in 1980.

Many of his family members attended as well.

Regent professors to teach at UCLA

Award winning journalist, essayist and poet Goenawan Mohamad and
Indonesian philosopher will teach this fall at UCLA as Regents
Professor for 2001-02.

The appointment decision from the regents was influenced by the
UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies and International
Studies.

“Goenawan Mohamad was the conscience of Indonesia for moss
of the Suharto period,” said Anthony Reid, CSAS director.

“Goenawan is also one of Indonesia’s most thoughtful
creative writers. His time at UCLA will provide a window for us on
the upheavals Indonesia is undergoing and a chance for him to
reflect upon them,” he said.

Goenawan will teach two courses with visiting scholar Mary
Zurbuchen. They will focus on Indonesian literature, media and
performance, among other topics.

Business school starts new center

The Anderson School of Business has raised $10 million to launch
a new center for real estate research and education.

Richard Ziman, a real estate executive, provided $5 million to
kick start the efforts.

The center will be named the Richard S. Ziman Center for real
Estate.

The new center will allow the MBA program to expand in
concentrations and will forge new undergraduate courses in real
estate and executive education programs for professionals.

Researchers map effects of disease

UCLA brain researchers are using magnetic resonance imaging
technology to evaluate how schizophrenia effects parts of the brain
and to what degree.

Schizophrenia affects roughly 1 percent of Americans, and
usually onsets by the late teens or early 20s.

The new evaluation technique showed that patients with the worst
brain tissue loss had the worst symptoms.

The MRIs show the damage and whether treatment for schizophrenia
halts or betters the conditions of the disease.

Compiled from Daily Bruin wire services.