UCLA Graduate Catalog 1980-81 - Registrar - UCLA

10 / LIBRARIES, MUSEUMS AND SPECIAL FACILITIES
the 3033 includes a wide range of statistical,
engineering , and mathematical software.
Several FORTRAN and PL%I compliers, as
well as other esoteric computer
are also supported on the 3033.
languages,
W. B. Kehl , Director
The Division of Laboratory Animal
Medicine is the centralized animal resource
facility responsible for the procurement, husbandry
and general welfare of animals
required for teaching and investigative services.
The Division's veterinary and support
staff administers the veterinary medical and
husbandry programs throughout the campus.
The Division's veterinary programs and
physical facilities have been approved for
full accreditation by the American Association
for Accreditation
Care.
of Laboratory Animal
Jessie O. Washington , D.V.M. Director
The University of California Natural Land
and Water Reserves System offers 25
reserves statewide to be used for field studies
in unspoiled natural sites and for protected
scientific experiments. Graduate students at
UCLA regularly use several of these for
thesis and dissertation research, including
the 14,000 acre Boyd Deep Canyon Desert
Research Center and the 56,000 acre Santa
Cruz Island Reserve, both of which have field
stations. A complex of three Santa Monica
Mountain Reserves administered by UCLA is
close enough to the campus for easy daily
access.
Jonathan Sauer , Campus
Representative
Zoological collections of the Department of
Biology include a research collection of
marine fishes , primarily from the eastern
Pacific and the Gulf of California, and the
Dickey Collection of birds and mammals,
primarily from the western United States,
western Mexico and Central America. The
Department also maintains a more limited
collection of amphibians , reptiles and fossil
vertebrates. Through a cooperative arrangement
, the large zoological collections of the
Los Angeles County Museum, containing
both fossil and recent specimens , are available
for research by qualified students.
The department also maintains an extensive
collection of algae , and a smaller collection of
fungi and bacteria (including photosynthetic
bacteria). These collections, which are part of
the culture facility, are available for both
teaching and research.
UCLA is a member of the Organization for
Tropical Studies, a consortium created to
promote research and educational programs
in the New World tropics. Fellowships are
available for subsistence in field -oriented
programs in Central America.
Other Programs and
Training
A variety of other programs, projects,
,facilities and specialized research units are
presently in operation at UCLA. Inquiry con-
cerning these activities should be addressed
to the Dean of the Graduate Division, 1237
Murphy Hall, University of California, Los
Angeles , California 90024.
Research
Facilities at
UCLA
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African Studies Center
Institute of American Cultures
Institute of Archaeology
Brain Research Institute
Center for the Study of Comparative Folklore
and Mythology
Dental Research Institute
Institute
Physics
of Geophysics and Planetary
Gustave E. von Grunebaum
Eastern Studies
Center for Near
Institute of Industrial Relations
Jules Stein Eye Institute
Latin American Center
Institute for Medical Engineering
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Mental Retardation Research Center
Molecular Biology Institute
Neuropsychiatric Institute (NPI)
Laboratory of Nuclear Medicine
tion Biology
and Radia-
Center for Russian and East European
Studies
Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR)
Western Management Institute
Recognizing the value of an interdisciplinary
approach to the search for knowledge, the
University maintains Regentally designated
organized research units and other research
programs outside the usual departmental
structure. An organized research unit consists
of an interdepartmental group of faculty
and students engaged in research with them.
Such units aid research and may enhance the
teaching of participating members of the
faculty, but they do not offer regular
academic curricula or confer degrees. They
may provide research training to graduate
students employed in research programs
with faculty supervision. These units, along
with more specialized activities in focal
fields, provide significant support to the
educational program and enhance the overall
academic quality of the institution.
The Institute of Geophysics
and Planetary Physics
gaseous parts of the planets, and interplanetary
space. Major research programs being
actively explored in the laboratories of the
Institute include investigations into the
origin of the magnetic field; the configuration
of the earth's magnetic field in space; the
earth-sun interaction; structure and properties
of the lunar surface and interior;
meteorites; origin of the earth's magnetic
field; the history of the solar system;
astrophysical plasmas; high energy
astrophysics; ocean-atmosphere interactions;
seismology; earthquake control and prediction;
internal structure of the earth; earth
tides; continental drift and plate tectonics;
properties of materials under high pressures
and temperatures; mineral synthesis;
radiocarbon archaeology; geochronology;
glaciology; petrology and metamorphism;
isotope geochemistry; origins of life; man's
interaction with the environment.
The laboratory facilities of the Institute and
its faculty are available to guide the dissertation
research of students in the physical
sciences , including the Departments of Earth
and Space Sciences, Physics, Chemistry,
Mathematics, Atmospheric Sciences,
Astronomy, Engineering and Anthropology.
Leon Knopoff , Associate Director
Institute of American
Cultures
The Institute of American Cultures is
charged with promoting and coordinating
the activities of the four ethnic centers-the
Center for Afro-American Studies, the
American Indian Studies Center, the Asian
American Studies Center, and the Chicano
Studies Center. The Institute conducts no
research itself , but fulfills its purpose by
making research funds available to the ethnic
centers and by encouraging and coordinating
the efforts of the centers to recruit faculty
and develop new instructional programs.
The Institute is guided by an Executive Committee
consisting of the four center directors,
three faculty members (one of whom serves
as the chair), and the Vice Chancellor for
Institutional Relations (ex officio). The
Director of the Institute is the Executive Vice
Chancellor.
The Center for Afro -American Studies is an
organized research unit established on the
UCLA campus in 1969. Its basic mission is to
encourage and support research that
enhances the interpretation of the Afro-
American experience. Pursuant to this objective,
it provides faculty and graduate student
research grants , sponsors in-house research
projects, offers fellowship and scholarship
awards, supports interdisciplinary symposia,
encourages related curriculum development,
and most important, relates these findings to
the community at large via lectures, publications
, and cultural p rograms .
Claudia Mitchell -Kernan, Director
The Institute of Geophysics and Planetary
Physics is engaged in interdisciplinary programs
of studies of the interior of the earth ,
moon, and other planets, the fluid and
The American
an educational
Indian Studies Center acts as
catalyst in a variety of ways.