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UCLA researchers speak about funding freezes | Los Angeles Times
Their medical research focuses on potentially lifesaving breakthroughs in cancer treatment, and developing tools to more easily diagnose debilitating diseases. Their studies in mathematics could make online systems more robust and secure. But as the academic year opens, the work of UCLA’s professors in these and many other fields has been imperiled by the Trump administration’s suspension of $584 million in grant funding, which University of California President James B. Milliken called a “death knell” to its transformative research. (UCLA’s Sydney Campbell, Dino Di Carlo and Terence Tao were quoted. Also: UCLA’s Dr. David Shackelford was interviewed by CNN.)
UCLA nursing school gets naming donation | Los Angeles Business Journal
UCLA will rename its nursing school the Joe C. Wen School of Nursing following a record-setting $30 million donation by university alumnus Joe C. Wen. The donation is the largest in the nursing school’s 76-year history and paves way for UCLA’s first school named after an Asian American. (UCLA’s Lin Zhan was quoted.)
In election cases, SCOTUS keeps removing guardrails | New York Times
Richard Hasen, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, said the Roberts court may be moving in the opposite direction. “At least some of the conservative justices on the court seem ready to turn the clock back to the early 1960s,” he said, “when courts imposed very little constraints on the most blatant power grabs, and before Congress exercised its constitutional powers to protect voting rights.”
Californian Republicans want to save political maps | New York Times
The California electorate is heavily Democratic, with registered Democrats outnumbering registered Republicans by nearly 2 to 1. So giving both parties equal representation on the redistricting commission technically gives Republicans outsize influence, said Matt Barreto, a Democrat, who directs the Voting Rights Project at the University of California, Los Angeles. (Barreto was also quoted by KQED-FM.)
IRS chief’s gaffes, sudden exit roil the fractured tax agency | Bloomberg Tax
The leadership changes and funding cuts won’t help the IRS solve the tax gap, or the difference between the amount of money owed and collected, now at historic levels, said Kimberly Clausing, a UCLA School of Law professor who served in Treasury during the Biden administration.
Telescope captures sharpest image yet of interstellar comet | Fox Weather
According to astronomers, including David Jewitt from the University of California, Los Angeles, the comet’s nucleus is likely no larger than 3.5 miles wide. “This is like glimpsing a rifle bullet for a thousandth of a second,” Jewitt stated. “You can’t project that back with any accuracy to figure out where it started on its path.”
Tariffs blamed in popular grocery store closure | San Francisco Chronicle
The nonpartisan Anderson Forecast at UCLA predicts Trump’s tariffs, immigration crackdown and federal spending cuts will slow the U.S. economy this year and next, though in the longer term his deregulation and tax cuts could increase growth in 2027.
Will we ever get enough housing? | Los Angeles Times
A recent analysis from UCLA’s Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies — titled “The Unintended Consequences of Measure ULA” — suggests the tax has chilled a once-robust market in L.A., while sales above $5 million have remained steady in other markets across L.A. County not affected by the tax. But by 2050, Measure ULA will likely have raised tens of billions of dollars — an unprecedented amount of cash that, if used effectively, has the potential to solve many of the cities housing woes.
State goals: what’s a vision and what’s a hallucination? | Los Angeles Times
“Incredibly disappointing,” said Michael Manville, a UCLA professor of urban planning. “The city remains incredibly dangerous for cyclists and pedestrians.” Manville didn’t have very high grades, either, for Metro’s 28x28 foray. “It’s a joke at this point,” he said, although even though he noted that some progress is undeniable, citing in particular the expected completion of the Purple Line extension to the Westside in time for the Olympics.
Hollywood takes a wrecking ball to Los Angeles | Los Angeles Times
Paul Malcolm, senior public programmer at the UCLA Film & Television Archive, has a different take: “Los Angeles is a city of constant change — it reinvents itself, tearing down old buildings and putting up new ones. Hollywood is also in constant flux and turmoil. Maybe Hollywood is processing its own anxieties about change and inflicting upon its hometown.”
Why do we celebrate Halloween? | NBC’s “Today”
“Scholars, especially folklorists, for the last hundred years or so, have been associating it with ancient Celtic times, saying that there was some festival of the return of the dead on October 31, but that turns out to be bogus,” Henry Ansgar Kelly, research professor specializing in medieval and renaissance studies at UCLA, tells Today.com.
We asked nutritionists for the best magnesium-rich foods | Health
“You can make a shake with ingredients such as peanut butter, plant-based milk or yogurt, banana, and berries, and have a very magnesium-rich shake,” Dana Ellis Hunnes, a senior clinical dietitian at UCLA Health, told Health.
