Beginning Sunday afternoon, UCLA will host a conference titled “History as Reflected in Israeli Literature,” drawing 30 scholars from universities all over the world.
The conference aims to explore the extent to which Israeli literature reflects Israeli history, said Arnold Band, professor emeritus of comparative literature and Near Eastern languages and culture, and the director of the UCLA Israel Studies Program.

Last year, as part of the annual Dinners for 12 Strangers program, Stephanie Ching attended a dinner hosted by a UCLA alumnus who was a lawyer.

By SEDA TERZYAN
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Tatevik Vardanyan took a seat in a small dark room, alone with
only a computer to keep her company. Not knowing what to expect,
she nervously awaited the start of the experiment.

Roland Palvolgyi heard a helicopter drone overhead, and the
intercom in the Emergency Department buzzed “ETA, five
minutes.”
Along with doctors and nurses, Palvolgyi watched as the TV
broadcast images of a helicopter landing on the helipad above the
UCLA hospital, and the Emergency Medical Technicians unloaded a man
onto a stretcher.

In Mala Mandyam’s anthropology class last year, her
teaching assistant brought a newspaper clip to class to begin
discussion every week. The class focused on evolutionary
anthropology and Mandyam said the clips always produced a vibrant
debate.

In Janet Goodwin’s English as a second language course for
international teaching assistants, one of the first assignments for
her students is to master the elusive art of small talk.

James Lucania, a student in the M.B.A. program, doesn’t
plan on pursuing teaching as a career. He is not required to spend
time as a teaching assistant, as some graduate students are, and
his background is in investment banking.

Before standing up in front of 60 expectant students for his
first discussion section, a new teaching assistant can shed his
nervousness by leading his fellow TAs through a mock discussion
section, where they can practice eliminating shaking hands and
awkward pauses.

Community volunteers will meet tonight to conclude a three-day
phoneathon focused on encouraging academically qualified black
students to apply to UCLA.
UCLA alumni, current students and other concerned community
volunteers met on Wilshire on Wednesday and Thursday night and will
do so again today, with the goal of contacting about 400 black
students to tell them their personal and academic background would
be vital to the increase in diversity on campus.

The
University of California, along with other companies, has just
entered a bid to manage the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
which specializes in nuclear research ““ one week after an
apparent security breach in another UC-managed nuclear research
facility, Los Alamos National Laboratory.