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Berry Gordy Music Industry Scholarship launches | The Hollywood Reporter
Universal Music Group and UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music announced the creation of the Berry Gordy Music Industry Scholarship on Monday, the latest namesake at the school for the famed founder of Motown. The scholarship comes just over a year after Gordy’s $5 million helped establish UCLA’s Berry Gordy Music Industry Center last May. (UCLA’s Robert Fink was quoted.)
Birders and casual sparrow spotters: Science needs you | Los Angeles Times
Attention would-be warbler watchers and pigeon peepers: Ornithologists at UCLA and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County are recruiting volunteers for Project Phoenix, a multiyear citizen science initiative investigating birds’ response to wildfire. The team is seeking volunteers in California, Oregon and Washington to collect data from July through November, the duration of the official West Coast fire season. (UCLA’s Olivia Sanderfoot was quoted.)
GOP budget bill would set back climate goals | KCRW 89.9-FM’s “Press Play”
“There’s a really big picture way to think about what the bill’s doing, and that’s grabbing a lot of attention in the headlines; that it’s adding three trillion dollars to the national debt. But as you say, there are smaller-scale ways to think about its effects, too, at the household level,” said UCLA’s Cara Horowitz.
Voting continues on Trump’s domestic policy bill | CNN
“The main thing to understand about this bill is that it’s a massive tax cut for the very wealthy. That’s the essential, mostly costly part of it,” said UCLA’s Daniel Treisman.
SCOTUS takes up challenge to campaign finance restrictions | NBC News
“The court’s reasoning upholding these party spending limits has been undermined by more recent court campaign finance cases,” said Rick Hasen, an election law expert at UCLA School of Law.
California rolls back environmental law for housing | Wall Street Journal
And the heart of the problem, say housing experts, are the regulatory barriers to construction. The state needs 3.5 million units, but only about 100,000 are built annually. “We have turned off the spigot on housing for the last 20 to 30 years,” said Michael Lens, a professor of urban planning and policy at the University of California, Los Angeles.
California’s strategy to advance equity for descendants of slavery | KQED-FM
Marcus Anthony Hunter, a professor of sociology and African American Studies at UCLA, said his hope for the legal survival of the reparations movement has been buoyed by an unlikely source: conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
Fireworks are dangerous | KCAL-TV
“We really see a couple of big injuries. We see burn injuries; we see explosion injuries from people holding fireworks or playing with fireworks. And we see heat-related illness and injuries from people staying outside too long and getting dehydrated and burned, and other injuries from the heat,” said UCLA’s Dr. Michael Levine.
UC considers adopting semester system at all schools | Los Angeles Times
“They’ve tried over and over to do this at different campuses,” said Dan Mitchell, a professor emeritus of the UCLA Anderson School of Management who arrived in Westwood in 1968 and stopped teaching three years ago. “It would be big if they finally did.”
