UCLA student wins film prize
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television graduate
screenwriting student Beverly Newfeld won first prize in the Samuel
Goldwyn Writing Awards for her love story “Brown
Widow.”
The 46th annual awards, to recognize excellence in dramatic
writing, were announced Monday by Samuel Goldwyn Jr., president of
the Samuel Goldwyn Foundation, in a ceremony at UCLA.
The judges were Academy Award-winning writer/director Frank
Pierson, actor/director Tony Goldwyn and Los Angeles Times film
critic Kevin Thomas.
New program director named
Olga Kagan has been named director of the UCLA Language Resource
Program, a unit of International Studies and Overseas Programs.
Kagan, a senior lecturer in the UCLA Department of Slavic Languages
and Literatures and coordinator of the Russian language program,
replaces founding director Russell Campbell, who will continue
working with the program as principal investigator.
UCSF increases pediatric dentists
The UCSF Division of Pediatric Dentistry, the only one in
northern California, is expanding the advanced specialty education
program to keep up with the growing need for pediatric dentists in
California.
The program is a full-time 36-month course of study, beginning
July 1 of each year, and leads to a certificate in pediatric
dentistry and may include a Master’s in oral biology.
In the past, the Pediatric Dentistry Program, housed in the UCSF
School of Dentistry’s Department of Growth and Development,
accepted two residents annually. This year, the program has doubled
its acceptance to four residents per year.
Astronomers find new planets
An international team of astronomers at UC Santa Cruz has
discovered eight new extrasolar planets, including at least two
that travel in circular orbits similar to those of Earth and Mars.
Planet hunters have now detected nearly 80 planets orbiting nearby
stars, but most of them have elongated, or “eccentric,”
orbits.
The latest discoveries strengthen the likelihood of finding
solar systems analogous to our own, said UCSC professor of
astronomy and astrophysics Steven Vogt.
The newly detected planets range in mass from 0.8 to 10 times
the mass of Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system.
Reports from Daily Bruin wire services.