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Series to Feature Medical Advances, Politics,
the Ocean and More

Jan. 3, 2006 :: No. 96

What: New medications, religion and terror, grunion-running, mediation and gambling are just a few of the topics and issues that will be presented during Continuing Learning Experience's (CLE) spring lecture series, beginning Jan. 17.
Where: Mackey Auditorium in Cal State Fullerton's Ruby Gerontology Center
Schedule:

"Advances in Medicine"
Alternate Tuesdays, 10 a.m.-noon

Jan. 17 — "What's New in Diabetes?" with Yung-In Choi, co-director, adult division, Joslin Diabetes Center, UCI
Jan. 31 — "Update on Total Hip and Knee Replacement" with Harry Skinner, professor and chair, department of orthopedic surgery, UCI
Feb. 14 — "Vitamins and Minerals" with Norman C. Myers, medical director, Comprehensive Pain and Wellness Center, St. Jude Medical Center
Feb. 28 — "New Treatments in the Fight Against Breast Cancer" with David Hsiang, assistant clinical professor of surgery, Division of Oncology, UCI
March 14 — "New Medications, More Choices to Make" with Bradley Williams, program director, USC Geriatrics Residency Program
April 11 "Helping You Heal, Helping You Function More Easily" with Shu Chuan Hsu, senior therapist, outpatient clinic and acute medical-surgical department, UCI Medical Center


Political Series
Alternate Thursdays, 10 a.m.-noon

Jan. 19 — "Religion and Terror" with Jonathan Dobrer, Unitarian Universalist Church of Fullerton
Feb. 2 — "Church and State Throughout the World" with Dobrer
Feb. 16 — "The Orange County Democratic and Republican Chairs Discuss Party Philosophy and Political Issues" with Scott Baugh, Orange County Republican Committee chair, and Frank Barbaro, Orange County Democratic Committee chair
March 2 — "Thirty-Nine Years of Political Reporting" with Kenneth Reich, retired Los Angeles Times journalist
March 16 — "Vote Populi" with Jean Pasco, Los Angeles Times political staff writer


"The Ocean Around Us"
Alternate Tuesdays, 1:15-3:15 p.m.

Jan. 24 — "Sculpted by the Sea, Before the Developers Came … " with Wayne N. Engstrom, CSUF professor of geography
Feb. 7 — "Sticking a Toe in the Ocean From 830 Miles Above Earth" with Tom Nolan, Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) operations engineer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Feb. 21 — "Plastic Debris, Rivers to the Sea" with Gwen Lattin, Algalita Marine Research Foundation
March 7 — "Do Not Dump, Drains Straight to the Ocean" with Ray Heinmstra, associate director of projects, Orange County Coast Keepers
March 21 "Forty-Two Years at Sea—From Loading With a Boom to Tracking Container Vessels—by Computer" with Manny Ashemeyer, executive director, Marine Exchange of Los Angeles/Long Beach Harbors
April 4 — "The Moon, the Tides and Why Grunions Run" with Larry Fukahara, program director, Cabrillo Marine Aquarium


Best of the Eclectics
Alternate Thursdays, 1:15-3:15 p.m.

Jan. 26 — "Lincoln's Murder Still a Mystery" with Ronald Rietveld, CSUF emeritus professor of history
Feb. 9 — "The Magic of Mediation" with Elaine Rosen, attorney
Feb. 23 — "Four ‘Isms' in 19th- and Early 20th-Century European Modernism: Orientalism, Primitivism, Fauvism, German Expressionism" with Ruth Capelle, CSUF emeritus professor of art
March 9 — "Light and Color in Nature" with Roger Nanes, CSUF chair and professor of physics
March 23 — "The Proliferation of Casino-Style Gambling Throughout the World: The Economic, Social and Philosophic Implications" with Bill Eadington, director, Institute for the Study of Gambling and Commercial Gaming, University of Nevada, Reno
April 6 — "Perspectives on California Social and Political Issues" (speaker to be announced)

Cost: The series are open to the public free of charge.
Background:

CLE is a self-governing university support group of more than 675 retired and semiretired individuals dedicated to the pursuit of lifelong learning.

Media Contact: CLE at 657-278-2446


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