UCLA in the News April 21, 2025

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For Julio Frenk, education and health are pillars today | El Heraldo de México

(Translated from Spanish) Julio Frenk is the first Latino president of the University of California (UCLA) in Los Angeles. The institution, characterized by its diversity, represents not only a challenge for Mexican academics, but also a dream, one that few people can achieve due to the lack of equal opportunities. (Chancellor Frenk was interviewed.)

UCLA researcher examines stereotyping of Latino students | Arizona PBS

A new book by an award-winning UCLA researcher focuses on how schools are inadvertently stereotyping Latino students and failing to address racial inequalities. The author, Laura Chávez Moreno, grew up in Douglas, Arizona, and her book “How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America” draws from case studies in Arizona schools. (Chávez Moreno was interviewed.)

Trump’s immigration paradox | El País US

For Leisy Abrego — a professor in the Department of Mexican, Chicano and Central American Studies at UCLA — the reason the number of undocumented migrants is increasing is to facilitate more deportations, thus keeping Trump’s political base happy.

As L.A. emerges from wildfires, can its mayor recover, too? | New York Times

For decades, she has been among the most popular politicians in Southern California, a pragmatic Democrat known for forging consensus across party lines. But a new survey by the Luskin School of Public Affairs at the University of California, Los Angeles, showed that nearly half of the city’s residents viewed her “unfavorably,” compared with fewer than one in three last year. (UCLA’s Zev Yaroslavsky was quoted.)

Mayor Karen Bass weighs deep cuts, including layoffs | Los Angeles Times

Caruso, who has not divulged whether he will run a second time, recently posted a video on social media highlighting the results of a new poll from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, which found that L.A. County residents were deeply frustrated with the region’s high cost of living. That quality-of-life survey, which included residents outside L.A. who cannot participate in its city elections, showed that 49% of respondents had unfavorable views of Bass, up considerably from the prior year.

L.A. fire victims sue insurance companies | Los Angeles Times

The fires killed 30 people and caused as much as $164 billion in total property and capital losses, according to a study from the UCLA Anderson Forecast, with $75 billion of that in insured losses.

The Supreme Court could be poised to hobble the Trump resistance | Politico

Nixing nationwide injunctions altogether “could have real costs,” said Rick Hasen, a prominent election law expert at UCLA’s law school. He described a scenario in which Trump’s effort to end automatic birthright citizenship is upheld in one circuit court but not another, leaving people in one region of the country “who are going to face consequences for that during that period, sometimes consequences that might not be undone.”

Dental health experts jumping to defend water fluoridation | KABC-TV

“The science is crystal clear. The public health practice of community water fluoridation is safe. It’s effective,” said Dr. Francisco Ramos-Gomez, chair of pediatric dentistry at UCLA.

Same-sex marriage is the law of the land. Some states are debating it anyway | New York Times

“Millions of people have changed their lives and relationships as a result of Obergefell,” said Brad Sears, senior scholar at the [Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law] that studies LGBTQ demographics. “I believe that a majority of the members of the court will take that seriously.”

Blind test of real, fake meat suggests preference is mental | Futurism

“People don’t just taste food in an objective way,” Daniel Rosenfeld, a University of California, Los Angeles, behavioral scientist who specializes in plant-based food perceptions, told the website. He should know: in 2023, Rosenfeld co-wrote a study that found that so-called “carnists,” or people who strongly believe eating animals is a human right, were more likely to expect vegan food to taste gross.