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Many in Altadena’s Black community face tough decisions | LAist
A report from UCLA, published in late January, found that because of Altadena’s history of redlining, the Black community was disproportionately affected by the Eaton Fire. The study authors wrote that the fire would disrupt the transfer of generational wealth in Black families and, along with rising home prices, could “threaten to erase Altadena’s Black community altogether.” (Also: Phys.org.)
How science gets tested on alien worlds | Space.com
A team of researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles, and Princeton University have questioned that assumption, wondering instead if a forming planet beyond our solar system — an exoplanet — could serve as a natural laboratory in which molecules interact in surprising ways within the seething heat of its atmosphere and core. “Standard models of planets assume that these building blocks do not interact with each other,” said Lars Stixrude, a professor at UCLA, told Space.com.
UCLA researchers decry funding cuts at protest | Los Angeles Times
Ushered down the street by sympathetic drivers honking their car horns, hundreds of protesters from UCLA marched through Westwood on Tuesday as part of a national day of demonstration against the Trump administration’s cuts to National Institutes of Health research funding. (UCLA’s Elisa Pabon, Sydney Campbell, Michael Chwe and Tara Kerin were quoted.)
What Trump doesn’t get about tariffs | U.S. News & World Report
(Commentary by UCLA’s Kimberly Clausing) President Donald Trump heralded last Wednesday as ”Liberation Day” for the U.S. economy, but it seems only to have liberated Americans from the burdens of common-sense economic policy. In the days since the administration announced so-called reciprocal tariffs on dozens of countries, investors have been “freed” from the rising investment portfolios that come from a soaring stock market, consumers have been ”unshackled” from low-cost shopping, and the United States has been “unburdened” of harmonious relations with some of our closest trading partners and allies, such as Canada and South Korea.
Tariffs, trade war and recession worries | Los Angeles Times
For economist Clement Bohr, the uncertainty from an unpredictable federal government is the biggest problem. “Nobody knows what is going to happen from one day to the next,” he said. “That can be very destructive for the state of the economy.” Bohr is an assistant professor at UCLA and economist with the university’s Anderson Forecast, which issued a “Recession Watch” last month.
Trump tariffs bring anxiety to Costco aisles | Los Angeles Times
As the Trump administration and foreign governments haggle over exact tariff percentages, businesses in the U.S. are trying to prepare by negotiating deals with overseas suppliers, or looking for ingredients elsewhere so the price increase for shoppers won’t be too high, said Christopher Tang, senior associate dean of global initiatives at the UCLA Anderson School.
‘Pink Narcissus’: A home movie both abject and erotic | New York Times
Originally released anonymously, this homoerotic fantasia created by the photographer James Bidgood, newly restored by the [UCLA Film & Television Archive], gets its first theatrical run in 54 years at Metrograph, starting April 11.
