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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.

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