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Putting dirty air on notice in the Palisades | Los Angeles Times
A project by the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health may help calm concerns over at least one other variable — the quality of the air in and near the burn zone. Researchers at the university announced this week they had finished installing 20 air quality sensors to measure pollution, stretching from the Palisades Highlands and Sunset Mesa (near the Getty Villa) to Santa Monica. (UCLA’s Yifang Zhu was quoted.)
Chris Newman at center of immigration fight | Los Angeles Times
For the past 21 years, (Chris) Newman has been a pivotal, omnipresent part of Southern California’s immigrant rights movement as legal director for the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, better known as NDLON. His work takes him from street corners advising jornaleros about their rights to my alma mater, UCLA, where he’s on the faculty of the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. (Newman was quoted.)
Trump’s flip on prosecuting former presidents | CNN
“Communicating with intelligence officials would seem to fall into the scope of official duties,” UCLA law professor Rick Hasen said.
UCLA professor appointed as artist laureate | The Argonaut
Victoria Marks, a choreographer, professor and movement director, plans to continue her performance-making work with a new focus on Culver City after being named the city’s new artist Laureate. … As a professor at UCLA, Marks said a major part of her role has been research and creating original work. She plans to bring those same practices into her new position. “I will take everything that I have learned in the past and bring it to Culver City,” she said.
Immigrants help stabilize ACA plans | California Healthline
“It’s creating a very hostile environment for them, especially after having to leave their countries because of some very traumatic experiences,” says Arturo Vargas Bustamante, a professor of health policy and management at UCLA’s Fielding School of Public Health. “For those who believe health care is a human right, this is like excluding that population from something that should be a given.”
Trump’s attack on research funding | Forbes
California colleges, with a combined 3.5 million students, have lost $294 million in grant funding, or about $150 per student. The University of California system, which includes the University of California Berkeley and the University of California Los Angeles, lost more grant money than any other state university system, according to the report.
Trying to escape grim news | Los Angeles Times
These cuts, and the elimination of federal support for scientific research, are damaging in obvious ways. But when I asked UCLA professor Alex Hall what’s most disturbing, here’s what the director of the Center for Climate Science had to say: “I feel like the thing that’s most chilling is the way the word ‘climate’ has become a dirty word.”
Food delivery bots are coming to L.A. | Los Angeles Times
Coco Robotics, a startup born on the UCLA campus, is about to carpet-bomb the city with hundreds of additional adorable delivery bots recently enhanced with some of the same AI that powers ChatGPT.
Doctor discusses FDA approval of Juul | KCAL-TV
“I think that in terms of these products, they’re allowed to be sold to adults over the age of 21, just like any other product that we would potentially monitor. With regards to helping adults potentially quit using traditional cigarettes, we know that the traditional cigarettes are the worst thing possible to potentially use,” said UCLA’s Dr. Michael Ong.
Ongoing federal immigration raids | KCRW-FM
New research suggests that ongoing federal immigration rates could deflate some of California’s economic power. That’s according to researchers at UCLA and California Lutheran University. Their new survey found that California’s Latino population contributes more than $1 trillion to the state’s gross domestic product. (UCLA’s David Hayes-Bautista was interviewed.)
