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Researchers warn of thousands of U.S. measles cases | KTLA-TV

“We’re starting to see the spread of measles, which doesn’t respect state lines, doesn’t respect boundaries. An infection anywhere is potentially an infection everywhere,” said UCLA’s Anne Rimoin.

Life for some of the immigrants cleaning up after fires | The Guardian

“There’s a really wide variety of materials [in the burn zones],” said Rachael Jones, an exposure scientist and professor in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health’s environmental health sciences department. She said workers may be exposed to carcinogens like polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, formaldehyde, benzene, asbestos and harmful metals such as lead, arsenic, cadmium and chromium.

Rebuilding research after a natural disaster hits | The Scientist

In January 2025, wildfires broke out in Los Angeles, prompting evacuations across the county. David Eisenman, a physician and public health scientist at University of California, Los Angeles, involved with safety and communication efforts across the university. While the wildfires did not directly affect the physical campus of UCLA, Eisenman said, “A lot of people who are researchers felt the need to get involved in the response at some level.”

Harvard was first. Hollywood could be next | The Hollywood Reporter

“I don’t hear them going around saying that this candidate is better than another. That’s all that counts,” says Rose Chan Loui, who specializes in teaching about nonprofits at UCLA School of Law. “I don’t see that leading to the revocation of their tax-exempt status.”  

Tariffs could mean higher prices, empty shelves | Business Insider

With the tariffs against China currently at 145%, many companies have been forced to cancel their shipments of new stock and are in a holding pattern trying to wait out Trump’s 90-day tariff pause to see what changes come next before placing big orders, Chris Tang, a University of California, Los Angeles, professor who’s an expert in global supply chain management and the impact of regulatory policies, told Business Insider.

Road map of Trump’s lawless presidency | New York Times

“It would call into question the citizenship of more than a million children and likely many more adults who were born here to parents not authorized to be in the country. The result would be chaos,” [said] UCLA’s Ann Carlson.

U.S. autism data project sparks uproar | Washington Post

That makes it difficult to trust findings, said researchers such as Catherine Lord, a psychologist at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. “What I worry about is it’s going to come out with something that’s not real,” Lord said. “And it will scare people, and then we will spend years trying to figure out what is real.”

Science explains why our brains aren’t just fancy computers | Salon

Itzhak Fried, lead author on the newly published research on time and space cells, is a neurosurgeon at UCLA whose lab, and postdoctoral students trained there, spawned many of the major discoveries of these specialized neuron types. Fried told Salon about the two decades of research, or more, that have led to the profusion of concept cells and other neuron types we now understand to play critical roles in encoding and representing our experience with the world.

Here’s when you actually need to worry about hantavirus | Health

There are many different types of hantaviruses that spread around the world — all of which are transmitted from rodents to humans — but the main one found in the U.S. is called the Sin Nombre virus, said Dr. Otto Yang, professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine.

San Francisco fixed itself. Los Angeles can too | Los Angeles Daily News

Meanwhile, Los Angeles continues to stumble. We’ve sleepwalked through elections and embraced policies that have deepened our crises. The results of an alphabet soup of taxes and bonds — from Prop HHH to Measure ULA — have been dismal. A recent UCLA survey showed Angelenos’ satisfaction with our quality of life at a record low.

With a novel, two sisters reclaim their art-world heritage | Washington Post

“Gabriële was the brains behind Picabia,” said George Baker, the chair of the art history department at UCLA and the author of “The Artwork Caught by the Tail,” about Picabia’s life and work. “When they first met, she was a deeply avant-garde figure — her music was advanced. His painting was kind of retrograde, a little out of fashion. I think because of their relationship, he radicalized his art.”