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At remote Amazon jungle hospital, U.S. med students learn vital lessons | NBC News
The chance to work under extreme conditions is precisely what brought [Alex] Gorin and [Diana] Partida to this remote corner of the world. The pair are members of a select group of UCLA medical students who traveled thousands of miles to Iquitos, the largest city in the world that cannot be accessed by road…. “I have no question that they’ll be better doctors. It changes who they are,” said Dr. Kelsey Martin, the dean of UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine. “This is a critical period where they can experience something that is going to blow their mind.” (UCLA’s A.J. Green, Molly Sprague and Dr. Lee Miller are also quoted.)
Waze data can help predict car crashes and cut response times | Wired
In May, a team of medical researchers with UCLA and University of California, Irvine, published a paper in the journal Jama Surgery suggesting that places in California might be able to use data from the crowdsourced traffic app Waze to cut emergency response times…. “If these methods can cut the response time down by between 20 to 60 percent, then it’s going to have the positive clinical impact,” says UCLA’s Sean Young. “It’s generally agreed upon that the faster you get into the emergency room, the better the clinical outcomes will be.”
A long-running immigration problem: The government sometimes detains and deports U.S. citizens | The Conversation Commentary
Scholars like Francisco Balderrama of California State University in Los Angeles and Kelly Lytle-Hernandez at University of California, Los Angeles have researched what happened when hundreds of thousands of people of Mexican descent were rounded up and forced onto trains bound for Mexico during the mass deportations of the Great Depression and the 1950s. They have determined that many of the people expelled from this country were actually U.S.-born citizens.
How school desegregation became the third rail of Democratic politics | Washington Post Perspective
The damaging legacy of framing the issue as one of busing, rather than one of achieving Brown’s promise of desegregated schools, continues to be with us in the present. A comprehensive survey by UCLA’s Civil Rights Project found the most segregated school systems today are largely found outside the deep South, with New York as the most segregated.
Ridgecrest residents prepare for more after earthquakes | NPR
“To the extent that this event could wake us out of our slumber — let's realize, hey. We’re living in Southern California,” said UCLA’s Jonathan Stewart. “This is a very risky place for earthquakes. It’s hard to find any more risky place in the world. Maybe we better prepare. If it helps us to do that, then it is a blessing in disguise.”
Segregation has soared in America’s schools as federal leaders largely turned away | Los Angeles Times
“For more than a generation, little has been done to address the issue,” said Gary Orfield, the co-director of the Civil Rights Project at UCLA. “It is crucial that we act.” … “It’s important to have public schools play a role in helping young people and the broader community develop the capacity and commitment to live together in productive ways,” said John Rogers, director of UCLA’s Institute for Democracy, Education and Access.
Decades-old civil rights issue thrust back into spotlight | VOA
The Civil Rights Project at UCLA said in a May report to mark the 65th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, that segregation in schools is again on the rise and has been growing “unchecked” for nearly three decades, “placing the promise of Brown at grave risk.”
Before RuPaul, the documentary ‘Paris Is Burning’ illuminated drag | Los Angeles Times
Livingston’s wildly entertaining, deeply humanitarian and fundamentally educational film has been restored and digitally remastered by the UCLA Film and Television Archive in conjunction with the Sundance Institute and Outfest UCLA Legacy Project, and though it’s nearly three decades old, it feels as vibrant and bracingly honest as it has always been.
Last-minute scheduling of L.A. retail workers soon could be barred | Los Angeles Times
Researchers at the UCLA Labor Center and the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, an advocacy group aligned with labor, found that 72% of L.A. workers surveyed said their workdays change from week to week. Even more — 77% — said that they got a week or less notice of their work schedule. And 44% said they had worked “clopening” shifts.
Anchorage smashes all-time record on Fourth of July with its first-ever 90-degree high | Weather.com
According to UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain, the strength of this high-pressure dome could break all-time records over Alaska. Its intensity mirrors a dome forecast to produce 90-degree temperatures over the central and southern U.S. (Also: The Hill)
Low levels of ‘bad’ cholesterol may have a downside | LiveScience
In terms of preventing ischemic heart disease and stroke — that is, disease caused by the restriction of blood flow to tissues — lower “bad” cholesterol is better, said Dana Hunnes, a senior dietitian at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles who wasn’t involved with the study. But at the same time, the new findings suggest that “levels of LDL cholesterol that are too low, in this case, less than 70 mg/dL, are also detrimental” in this particular population, by increasing the risk of hemorrhagic stroke, Hunnes told Live Science.
The rural anxiety behind Oregon’s failed climate legislation | Grist
But a job created isn’t the same as a job lost. Any upheavals in the job market as workers shift from one industry to another — from timber harvesting to solar installation, say — take a toll on workers’ self-confidence and the social networks they rely on. “Even for people who get re-employed quickly, the change can have big impacts,” said Jennie Brand, a sociology professor at University of California Los Angeles.
Gov. Newsom calls for master plan for California’s aging population | KPCC-FM
“Older adults generally prefer to age in place. For the 30 percent who are still renters, the housing crisis becomes more of a crisis every year,” said UCLA’s Steven Wallace. (Approx. 0:50 mark)
