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High levels of particulate matter found near EV charging | HealthDay News
“For anyone, exposure to fine particles can contribute to health issues, and for those with existing conditions or heightened sensitivity, the risks are even greater,” said study author Michael Jerrett, a professor at UCLA Fielding’s Department of Environmental Health Sciences. (UCLA’s Yifang Zhu was also quoted. Also: KTLA-TV and KNX-FM.)
USAID cuts: how many could die? | Le Monde with Agence France-Presse
More than 14 million of the world’s most vulnerable people, a third of them small children, could die because of the Trump administration’s dismantling of U.S. foreign aid, research projected on Tuesday, June 30 … “U.S. citizens contribute about 17 cents per day to USAID, around $64 per year,” said study co-author James Macinko of the University of California, Los Angeles. “I think most people would support continued USAID funding if they knew just how effective such a small contribution can be to saving millions of lives.”
Heart disease striking South Asian people younger | Spectrum News 1
UCLA research shows they also tend to experience heart issues up to 10 years earlier than other ethnic groups. Dr. Ravi Dave, director of UCLA’s South Asian Heart Program — the only one of its kind in Southern California — says early intervention is key. “It starts in your 20s,” he said. “Aggressive changes need to be made to overcome metabolic syndrome, high blood pressure and genetics that increase heart disease.”
Engineered bacteria detox mercury from a fish-rich diet | The Scientist
Among them is Elaine Hsiao, a biologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, who studies how the maternal microbiome affects fetal brain development. She collaborated with colleagues at the University of California, San Diego, who specialize in MeHg exposure and its accumulation in fish. Together, they engineered a commensal gut microbe capable of detoxifying MeHg.
Latina lesbian activism | LAist
The show is a collaboration between the museum and the Latina Futures 2050 Lab, a research initiative led by UCLA. Jocelyne Sanchez is a project archivist at the university’s Chicano Studies Research Center library and co-curator of the exhibition. In a conversation with LAist, she reflected on what the show might mean for Angelenos, who are bearing witness to immigration detentions across the region.
Attacks on LGBTQ+ people and democratic erosion | CNN’s “Amanpour”
“The piece for Chatham House really grew out of the observation that this year in particular, we’re seeing a dramatic escalation in terms of attacks on LGBTQ rights,” said UCLA’s Ari Shaw.
UCLA research project needs your help studying birds after wildfires | LAist
Researchers at UCLA are asking the public for help documenting changes in bird behavior from wildfire smoke. It takes 10 minutes a week to participate. “We don’t know a lot about how wildfire smoke is impacting birds,” Olivia Sanderfoot, the director of Project Phoenix, said. Her team is trying to change that. (Also: KTLA-TV.)
It’s time to declare independence — for all Americans | Newsweek
(Commentary by UCLA’s Marcus Anthony Hunter) The Declaration of Independence proclaimed that “all men are created equal” and are “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.” Today, many Americans are still denied access to the founding ideals of liberty, equality, and justice for all, leaving our Fourth of July celebrations incomplete.
The sharpest growth in ICE detention population | National Public Radio
“You listen to Tom Homan and Stephen Miller, they’re saying things like they are going after the worst of the worst, the people who are murderers,” says UCLA professor Graeme Blair, referring to President Trump’s ‘Border czar’ Tom Homan and key White House Aide Stephen Miller. “That’s just not what the data says about the people that they are actually arresting.”
Trump’s DOJ wants to strip citizenship from more Americans | HuffPost
“In order to protect the due process rights of persons facing a denaturalization proceeding it will be important for federal judges to appoint counsel to represent them in court,” Ingrid Eagly, a UCLA law professor and co-director of the Criminal Justice Program, told HuffPost.
Who’s No. 1? UCLA and UC Berkeley stake their claims | Los Angeles Times
Not to be usurped, UCLA within days began posting on its own socials: “Still #1,” it said, citing another U.S. News national ranking of public universities that came out nine months ago and put the Bruins as the top public campus in the nation. Fans and alumni of both schools have been sparring ever since. (UCLA’s Mary Osako was quoted.)
California’s biggest wildfire of the year spreads | Agence France-Presse
Southern California had an unusually dry winter and spring, and vegetation is already parched, UCLA extreme climate events specialist Daniel Swain has said. Intense and widespread heat this summer, and dry brush “will heavily factor into burning conditions later this season,” he added.
Wildfires traumatize us all. Here’s how to cope | Los Angeles Times
During this conversation, you might want to offer your support and ask what you can do to help, but understand that fire survivors might be in a place where they don’t know what they need. You can respond to that by saying, “I get that, but I will be here for you as different needs come up,” said Melissa Brymer, director of terrorism and disaster programs at the [UCLA-Duke National Center for Child Traumatic Stress]. (UCLA’s Dr. Gregory Leskin was also quoted.)
Calls rise for better flood warnings | Christian Science Monitor
Still, UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain wrote on BlueSky that the rainfall in Texas Hill Country last week is exactly the sort of weather pattern brought by climate change. “This kind of record-shattering rain (caused by slow-moving torrential thunderstorms) event is *precisely* that which is increasing the fastest in [a] warming climate. So it’s not a question of whether climate change played a role — it’s only a question of how much,” he said.
NIH budget cuts threaten the future of research | Los Angeles Times
At UCLA, Dr. Antoni Ribas has already started to see the ripple effects. “One of my senior scientists was on the job market,” Ribas said. “She had a couple of offers before the election, and those offers were higher than anything that she’s seen since. What’s being offered to people looking to start their own laboratories and independent research careers is going down — fast.”
More batteries = fewer problems for electric grid? | LAist 89.3-FM’s “AirTalk”
“One of the biggest innovations that is happening now is software and how do you connect things all together,” said UCLA’s Rajit Gadh (approx. 11:10 mark).
How the binding of two brain molecules creates memories | Wired
“These experiments very nicely show that KIBRA is necessary for maintaining the activity of PKMζ at the synapse,” said David Glanzman, a neurobiologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, who was not involved in the study. However, he cautioned that this doesn’t necessarily translate to maintaining memory because synaptic strengthening is not the only model for how memory works.
Childcare key issue in NYC mayoral race. California is taking note | LAist
Statewide, universal transitional kindergarten — which allows children to start a free two-year kindergarten program at age 4 — kicks in this fall. But overall, access to care for young children is still far below what’s needed. As of 2023, fewer than half the number of children in California under 5 had regular child care, according to UCLA’s Center for Health Policy Research.
Compounds in coffee may help lower type 2 diabetes risk | Healthline
Dr. Zhaoping Li, a professor of medicine and the chief of the Division of Clinical Nutrition at the University of California, Los Angeles, agreed. Li wasn’t involved in the study. “Drinking coffee provides natural benefits,” she told Healthline. “You can make coffee part of your healthy lifestyle.”
I can’t sleep. Now what? | New York Times
If Dr. Neal Walia, a sleep specialist at UCLA Health, can’t fall asleep, he listens to an audiobook he’s heard many times before, like “Think Like a Monk” by Jay Shetty. Since it’s familiar, the audio distracts him from his racing thoughts without keeping him awake to hear what happens next.
How can I help you? | The New York Review
(Book review written by UCLA’s Anahid Nersessian) In John Tottenham’s taut, hilarious debut novel, “Service,” a middle-aged clerk working a low-paying job at a Los Angeles bookstore struggles to realize his own vision: finishing the very book we’re reading.
