Other Student Accomplishments as of 8/13/2007
Meera Deo is planning to join a group of American doctors who are
traveling to Colombia in October 2007 to practice medicine in
underserved areas. This one-week trip has clearance through the
Department of Health Ministry.
In May 2007, Nazgol Ghandnoosh and Rocio Rosales
helped bring a temporary exhibit of over 1,000 mock graves to campus as
part of the Arlington West Memorial. Also on display were donated shoes
marked with names of a small number of the Iraqis killed during the war.
Nazgol and Rocio organized the faculty and student support needed to
obtain the exhibit's prime location on campus. The event was organized
by a coalition of Veterans for Peace, Students for a Democratic Society,
and CODEPINK Los Angeles.
Angie Jamison
had lead stories in Slate Magazine and UCLA Magazine on the findings in
"The Oprah Effect," 2007.
--She was an invited speaker at the Presidential inauguration for her
alma mater Linfield College (McMinnville, OR) in February 2007. She
discussed "The benefits of an international education." (Also profiled
in Linfield's alumni magazine last year-- story about parlaying a post-Linfield
Fulbright into a sociology career.)
--She was invited
to speak on the topic of political economy in Los Angeles at the
visiting speaker series at the Stanford Center for the Study of the
American West, September 2007.
Chinyere Osuji has a photography exhibit on
the second floor of the UCLA’s Powell library, “Vistas do Brasil/Views
of Brazil.” It shows some of the cityscapes and other views of
different areas of Brazil. The photographs were taken in Sao Paulo, Rio
de Janeiro, and different places in the state of Bahia. The exhibit is
running until August 31, 2007 in the rotunda of Powell. Pictures were
taken in Brazil last summer while doing research on affirmative action
programs in Brazil.
Danielle Pillet-Shore accepted an invitation
from the Department of Sociology at UCSB to teach an upper division
course to their undergraduates on her research in Spring 2006.
Jennifer Winther: Taught a new
undergraduate seminar at UCLA entitled "Technologies and Cultures of
Prenatal Care and Birth" (GE Cluster on Biotechnology and Society) in
Spring 2007.
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