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Hundreds of UCLA grants must be restored | Los Angeles Times
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to restore hundreds of suspended UCLA science research grants, affecting more than a third of awards totaling $584 million that the government abruptly froze late last month. (Also: New York Times.)
Trump’s attack on UCLA is aimed at taxpayer money | Los Angeles Times
President Trump’s demand for a whopping $1-billion payment from UCLA sent shock waves through the UC system. For those of us on the inside, the announcement elicited a range of responses. Some faculty and staff reacted with horror, others voiced increasing fear about the ongoing assault on academic freedom, and some merely muttered in sad resignation to the new reality.
Pancreatic cancer vaccine shows promise in trial | HealthDay News
A new vaccine aimed at a common cancer gene mutation could help stop aggressive pancreatic cancers from coming back, a small clinical trial suggests … “If you were to ask me what disease most needs something to prevent recurrences, I’d say this one,” Dr. Zev Wainberg, a leader of the trial, told NBC News. He’s co-director of the University of California, Los Angeles, gastrointestinal oncology program.
Autism diagnoses happening much earlier for boys than girls | ABC News
This raises concerns about missed opportunities for early support, Catherine Lord, the George Tarjan Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Education in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, told ABC News. “There is evidence that girls are often diagnosed later than boys, and particularly girls with milder symptoms are missed entirely,” Lord, who was not involved in the analysis, said. “When you add in adults seeking a diagnosis later in life -- often more women than men -- it pushes the average age of diagnosis for females even higher.”
‘Spectrum Bluegrass’ connects community | NPR’s “All Things Considered”
Elizabeth Laugeson is a pediatric psychologist who specializes in autism at UCLA. She says it’s no secret that music can be a really powerful form of communication. “But this can be particularly true for those who have difficulty with spoken language or social interactions, which is true for many autistic people,” [said Laugeson.]
Interstellar object going 130,000 mph | NPR’s “All Things Considered”
“The key signature is that it’s traveling really, really fast relative to the sun. So it’s going so fast that the gravity of the sun cannot hold onto it. It came in at about 40 miles per second, and that’s just way too fast for the sun’s gravity to be able to hold it back,” [said UCLA’s David Jewitt.]
We need to cool it with our obsession with this nutrient | HuffPost
Dr. Zhaoping Li, chief of the division of clinical nutrition at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, said protein provides the building blocks of our organs and body, and that it’s essential to improve the immune system. “It’s also used to make neurotransmitters, can function as hormones or can provide fuel through glucogenic or ketogenic pathways.”
Agricultural giant closing farm UFW sought to unionize | Los Angeles Times
Victor Narro, a labor studies professor at UCLA, said the closure and donation to UC Davis should be scrutinized. “The question is, what’s the reason they’re doing it?” he said. “Is it really, in the end, to avoid unionization of the workforce? Or is it really that they’re making a sound financial decision?”
Long-term unemployment is rising. Here’s why | Marketplace
And being unemployed for a long time can have long term consequences, according to Jennie Brand, a professor of sociology at UCLA who studies the effect of extended unemployment on workers. ”When they do find new jobs,” said Brand, “those are often at lower quality than the jobs they held previously. So lower wages, worse conditions, maybe lower benefits and other such aspects of the jobs that they might have benefited from before they were laid off.”
Trump’s unusual deal with Nvidia, AMD sparks concern | Los Angeles Times
“It ties the fate of this chip manufacturer in a very particular way to this administration that is quite rare,” said Julia Powles, a professor and executive director of the UCLA Institute for Technology, Law & Policy.
Trump’s affinity for Putin will be tested at high-risk summit | New York Times
“I think Putin and Trump recognize that they share a common view of the world — cynical, unsentimental, focused on power, money and territory,” said Daniel Treisman, a Russia scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles. “They feel they understand each other. Putin knows Trump would like to be on his side, but has lately felt ignored. So he’s ready to flatter and distract, with offers to U.S. business and to help in other global arenas.”
Are Trump’s tariffs driving up prices in California? | Sacramento Bee
The UCLA Anderson Forecast found in its summer outlook that housing in California is “under pressure, with deportations reducing the construction workforce, rising input costs owing to tariffs and high interest rates constraining new home development.”
AMC Theatres embrace commercials | Washington Post
Gabriel Rossman, a professor at UCLA who has researched the film industry, said it makes sense to show commercials in the previews because it’s a way for AMC to raise revenue without increasing ticket and concession prices. Moviegoers are more sensitive to those hikes, he said.
Beloved contest for bad writing retires | NPR’s “All Things Considered”
“Which totally goes with the contest weirdly. Like, they’re so inventive in the contest that they kind of capture the spirit of Bulwer-Lytton in that regard,” [said UCLA’s Jonathan Grossman.]
