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UCLA’s historic $30 million gift | Diverse Issues in Higher Education
The UCLA School of Nursing will become the first school at the prestigious public university to bear the name of an Asian American benefactor, following a $30 million commitment from alumnus Joe C. Wen and his family. The gift, the largest in the nursing school’s 76-year history, will be renamed the UCLA Joe C. Wen School of Nursing and represents a significant milestone in Asian American representation within higher education leadership and recognition. (UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk and UCLA’s Lin Zhan and Johnese Spisso were quoted.)
UCLA says $584 million suspended in research grants | Associated Press
The Trump administration has suspended $584 million in federal grants for the University of California, Los Angeles, nearly double the amount that was previously thought, the school’s chancellor announced Wednesday … “If these funds remain suspended, it will be devastating for UCLA and for Americans across the nation,” Chancellor Julio Frenk said Wednesday in a statement, noting the groundbreaking research that has come out of the university. (Also: Wall Street Journal and KCRW 89.9-FM’s “Press Play.”)
As Earth warms, California fire season is starting earlier | New York Times
When blazes get going earlier in the year, “there’s more time for the environment to be primed for large fires that can come later in the season when it’s really hot,” said Gavin Madakumbura, a postdoctoral climate researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the study’s lead author. “The vegetation has more time to dry out.” (Also: San Francisco Chronicle and The Conversation.)
Politicians picking voters with partisan redistricting | “PBS NewsHour”
“Well, right now, of course, Republicans have a very narrow majority in the House. This would be an attempt to try to keep that majority, despite the fact that we’re going to be going to a midterm election where usually the party out of power, in this case the Democrats, would be able to gain seats,” said UCLA’s Rick Hasen.
Texas could face greatest legal hurdles in redistricting | Los Angeles Times
The court ruled in Rucho vs. Common Cause that partisan gerrymandering “is incompatible with the 1st Amendment, that the government shouldn’t do this, and that legislatures and people who undertake this aren’t complying with the letter of the Constitution,” said Chad Dunn, a professor and legal director of the UCLA Voting Rights Project who has argued multiple cases before the Supreme Court. “But it concluded that doesn’t mean the U.S. Supreme Court is the solution to it.”
DHS uses controversial social media campaign | KNBC-TV
“Their goal is to divide and conquer, clearly. You can see that clearly by what they’re putting out on social media, in terms of the racial divisions, the ethnic divisions. Who’s considered worthy of being an American and who isn’t?” said UCLA’s Ramesh Srinivasan (approx. 2:30 mark).
Dozens of SoCal car washes have been raided by ICE | LAist
Raúl Hinojosa, a labor and Chicano studies professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, said he believes the Trump administration’s selective immigration enforcement tactics are geared toward “political performance.” “We’re seeing the entire focus being on the most cruel demonstrations,” Hinojosa said. “They’re using muscles, not brains.”
Hundreds of deaths may be linked to recent fires | Los Angeles Times
A study published last year by the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation found an estimated 55,000 premature deaths in an 11-year span from inhaling fine particulate matter known as PM2.5, or soot, from wildfires.
Clues about memory from the brains of ‘SuperAgers’ | NBC News
Dr. Timothy Chang, who wasn’t involved in the SuperAger research, works on the opposite end of the spectrum. An assistant professor of neurology at the Mary S. Easton Center for Alzheimer’s Research and Care at UCLA, Chang studies and sees patients who have dementia. Analyzing “outlier populations” such as SuperAgers is valuable to the medical field, he said.
The future of students without legal status and public school | CalMatters
“People have worried about this for a couple decades, but this is different,” said Patricia Gándara, education professor and co-director of the Civil Rights Project at UCLA. “Right now we have to be extremely vigilant. These people will stop at nothing.”
$2M will be allocated for guaranteed income program | City News Service
The Center for Guaranteed Income Research at Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice and UCLA’s Fielding School of Public Health also studied the impacts of BIG:LEAP. Researchers found a positive link in reducing domestic violence by giving individuals experiencing such violence a guaranteed income.
Glorya Kaufman, philanthropist and dancer, dies at 95 | Los Angeles Times
USC was not the first L.A.-area institution of higher learning to benefit from Kaufman’s largess. In 1999 she gave $18 million to fund the restoration of the UCLA Women’s Gym — now called Glorya Kaufman Hall. The Times wrote that her donation was, “the largest individual gift the university has received outside of the health sciences area, and the largest arts donation ever in the University of California system.”
Sydney Sweeney and politics: how the right became infatuated | The Hill
Gabriel Rossman, a sociologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, chalked up much of the GOP fixation on Sweeney to “negative polarization.” “If the opposition hates it, then we love it,” he said. “It’s a slightly dated line: It triggers the libs.”
