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NCAA tournament ranking give Southern California first place, followed by Stanford, UCLA and Georgia...
...WILL BE HARD TO PERPETUATE DUMB-JOCK stereotypes if universities like Duke and Stanford, among America's brainiest, keep grabbing trophies. Duke became the first team since UCLA in the early 1970s to repeat as champions in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's men's basketball tournament. A day earlier, the women's team from Stanford won its second NCAA title in three years...
Abdalla's course is part of a broader effort by UCLA administrators to perk up flagging student interest in the sciences. "We cannot afford to train everyone as a scientist," says Clarence Hall, dean of physical sciences. "But there are hardly any students to teach. Science and engineering are the engine of economic progress, and without some changes, we are bound to lose the fuel for that engine...
Structural Analysis of Proteins and Nucleoprotein Complexes that Promote Site-Specific DNA Inversion--by Dr. Reid Johnson, Dept. of Biological Chemistry, UCLA School of Medicine. Fairchile Biochemistry Building, Lecture Hall, 7 Divinity Ave., noon...
...result, some researchers are focusing their attention on the culprit molecules rather than the victims. Atmospheric scientists Richard Turco of UCLA and Ralph Cicerone of U.C. Irvine are exploring the idea of injecting into the stratosphere two chemicals -- propane and ethane -- that would combine with CFCs to produce an extremely weak, and therefore environmentally safe, solution of hydrochloric acid. That strategy would interrupt the CFCs' 100-year destruction cycle, and has the further advantage of requiring only 1,000 jumbo-jet flights over a single, critical 30-day period every year for the next several decades. The products involved...