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Political division has changed Earth Day | Los Angeles Times
“My personal and professional expectation for how much global warming and climate change will actually occur has increased from my assumption a year or two ago,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist with UCLA, during a recent briefing.
Anti-science myths rampant on autism at HHS | Los Angeles Times
There’s reason to fear that Kennedy’s quest for a cause or even a cure for autism will shoulder aside other research more important for those with ASD. As Emily Hotez, Rachel Hotez’s older sister and a leading autism researcher at UCLA, noted in an article she co-wrote after the CDC report’s release, the effort to identify autism’s cause has overlooked “something far more urgent: improving the lives of autistic people and their families, here and now.”
What hormones mean for treating brain diseases | New York Times
“How are you going to know if estrogens are neuroprotective if you don’t even do any experiments in females?” said Dr. Rhonda Voskuhl, a neurologist at the Comprehensive Menopause Program at the University of California, Los Angeles. “Give me a break.”
UCLA: New dean for Herb Alpert School of Music | City News Service
Michael Beckerman, a renowned musicologist recognized for his scholarship on Czech and Eastern European music, has been named the new dean of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, it was announced Monday … “Returning to the University of California after 25 years is really a dream come true,” he said in a statement. “And coming to the Herb Alpert School of Music — one of the great cultural institutions in the country, with its world-class students, faculty and staff — is an honor I will strive to live up to during my time as dean.”
Los Angeles: State of the city | KCAL-TV
“What’s behind that, I suspect, is they can avoid the layoffs if the labor unions will agree to defer their cost-of-living increases for a time,” said UCLA’s Zev Yaroslavsky (approx. :45 mark).
WHO drafts plan for future pandemics | LAist 89.3-FM’s “AirTalk”
“This really is a historic treaty… I think what we really need to recognize is diseases do not need visas to cross borders. We cannot be isolationists in the world today,” said UCLA’s Dr. Robert Kim-Farley (approx. 7:45 mark).
