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Back to school with UCLA’s food studies | KCRW 89.9-FM’s “Good Food”
UCLA offers a food studies minor and the law school is home to the Resnick Center for Food Law and Policy. There’s the Healthy Campus Initiative, which aims to prioritize the health and wellness of students, staff and faculty. So across the institution, there are several initiatives and programs that touch on food. The goal of the [UCLA Rothman Family Institute for Food Studies] is to bring them together. (UCLA’s Jack Bobo was interviewed.)
Are EV charging stations bad for your health? | Gizmodo
The air around electric vehicle chargers fast charging cars had twice the level of dangerous fine particles than regular urban air, a new study found. Researchers from UCLA measured 50 chargers across the Los Angeles metropolitan area, most of them Tesla Superchargers, and found that they had levels of fine particulate matter between 15 to 20 micrograms per cubic meter. (UCLA’s Yuan Yao and Yifang Zhu were quoted.)
More than 2.8 million Americans identify as transgender | NBC News
Roughly 2.8 million Americans who are 13 or older identify as transgender, according to a new study. The figure represents 1% of the U.S. population in that age group, according to the report published by the Williams Institute at UCLA’s School of Law, which has been estimating the transgender population size since 2011. According to the study’s findings, transgender individuals tend to be younger than the overall U.S. population. (UCLA’s Jody Herman and Andrew Flores were quoted.)
Attack on UCLA is a threat to every public university | Sacramento Bee
When the federal government freezes more than half a billion dollars in university research funding and demands an additional unprecedented $1 billion “settlement,” it’s not simply a policy dispute. For UCLA, one of the most important public universities in the nation, it is an action that threatens the independence and success of every public university in the nation — and claiming that these cuts relate to antisemitism is a fantasy.
Fears of brain drain grow as Trump cuts take a toll on UCLA | LAist
Research that was years in the making — into diabetes, cancer, heart disease, strokes, PTSD and fighting antibiotic-resistant infections — is on pause at UCLA, nearly a month after UCLA saw around $500 million in federal grants suspended. While a federal judge ordered the restoration of 114 National Science Foundation grants in early August, grants from the National Institutes of Health remain suspended. Since then, researchers have been scrambling to save their staff and experiments. And they’re increasingly worried that the uncertainty seeping into the sciences will have longer-term effects on the next generation of researchers. (UCLA’s Dr. S. Thomas Carmichael and Dr. Spyridon Hasiakos were quoted.)
Wildfires could be raising local death rates by two-thirds | The Hill
“Wildfires can cause death in a variety of ways,” co-lead author Kekoa Taparra, of the University of California, Los Angeles, said in a statement.
ER doctors say we need to pay more attention to heat | Los Angeles Times
(Article by UCLA student Marcos Magaña) Across Southern California, emergency room workers are primed for the wave of patients that pour in as heat waves like the current one drag into their second, third and fourth days. Heat takes an accumulating toll on the body, especially when people cannot cool down at night with air conditioning.
ICE could get broad power to stop, question Latinos | Los Angeles Times
If the court rules for Trump, it “could be enormously consequential” in Los Angeles and nationwide, said UCLA law professor Ahilan Arulanantham, co-director of the Center for Immigration Law & Policy. “The government would read this as giving immigration enforcement agents a license to interrogate and detain people without individualized suspicion. It would likely set a pattern that could be used in other parts of the country.”
WWII Japanese internment site to be ICE detention center | USA Today
The people detained at Bliss were immigrants. They would be the first in the eventual internment of over 125,000 Japanese Americans across the country, most of them U.S. citizens. For the vast majority, “there were no accounts of wrongdoing other than being seen as ‘enemy aliens,’” said Karen Umemoto, director of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center.
Cities move away from strategies that make drug use safer | New York Times
“I don’t think the availability of sterile supplies really makes a difference about whether someone is going to start or continue using drugs,” said Chelsea Shover, an epidemiologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, who oversees Drug Checking Los Angeles, which tests the contents of drugs for individuals and public health agencies.
