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Long-term health impacts from the LA wildfires are just becoming clear | NPR
Scientists from Los Angeles and around the country quickly scrambled into action as fires burned through the Pacific Palisades and Altadena. The priority, says UCLA physician and disaster researcher David Eisenman, was keeping people safe in the short term. But the fires also presented a moment to learn crucial missing information about the health effects of wildfires to help those affected and to better protect people's health from the inevitable next ones. (UCLA’s Yifang Zhu was also quoted.)
Skid Row’s unhoused women face serious risks. This doctor steps in | NPR
That's because [Mary] Marfisee, an assistant professor of medicine at UCLA, is also the family medical services director at the Union Rescue Mission. The Christian organization operates a four-story homeless shelter that is one of the oldest and largest homeless missions in Southern California. She told NPR she's coming up on 20 years tending to the more than 5,000 men, women and children who come through the doors of the shelter every year.
Matthew McConaughey trademarks himself amid AI use | Wall Street Journal
Mark McKenna, a professor at the UCLA School of Law who studies intellectual property, said the trademarks granted under existing U.S. law without registration, as well as state right of publicity laws, protect against most commercial uses. But on internet video platforms where creative work generated by AI can be monetized with advertisements, the law is murkier.
Late donor gifts $40M to benefit athletics, UCLA Health | Los Angeles Times
A $17.3-million gift from late alumnus and longtime donor Lawrence “Larry” Layne will benefit the UCLA football and men’s basketball programs, giving them essential financial resources as they try to keep up with their cash-infused conference counterparts. The football team will receive $9.6 million and the men’s basketball program $7.7 million as part of Layne’s more than $40-million pledge to various university programs. The donation to the athletic department is believed to be the biggest in more than a decade. (UCLA’s Martin Jarmond was quoted. Also: CBS News.)
Mexicans in L.A. are worried about their country's sovereignty | La Opinión
(Translated from Spanish) Gaspar Rivera-Salgado, project director at the UCLA Labor Center and manager of the Global Solidarity program, mentioned that the 'current' president [Donald Trump] is willing to use limited force to combat drug cartels.
