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Dating boot camp behind ‘Love on the Spectrum’ | New York Times
For mental health professionals to ask this question is new. Twenty years ago, when the U.C.L.A. psychologist Elizabeth A. Laugeson began developing the Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills, or PEERS, to teach social skills to people with autism, “nobody really wanted to touch” the subject of romance or dating, she said.
Trump faces test in court over military in L.A. | Los Angeles Times
Ahilan Arulanantham, co-director of the Center for Immigration Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law, said that Title 10 “requires a ‘rebellion or danger of rebellion,’ and inability of regular law enforcement authorities to execute the laws.” “I would be shocked if a court determined that those conditions were met by what is actually happening in L.A. at the moment, as those of us living here know,” Arulanantham added. (Arulanantham was also quoted by The Hill.)
Political spin over L.A. protests | Los Angeles Times
Reaction to the raids by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and the subsequent turmoil will divide Americans on what have become partisan lines that have become so predictable they are “calcified,” said Lynn Vavreck, a political science professor at UCLA.
Kondos Field dances to her own beat | Investor’s Business Daily
Former UCLA gymnastics head coach Valorie Kondos Field says she put on her life-changing leadership hat by listening to her heart.
How unions defined the L.A. protests | New York Times
Victor Narro, a project director at the University of California, Los Angeles, Labor Center, led a campaign to organize car wash workers in Los Angeles, which then spread to Chicago and New York City. Mr. Narro has spent this week arranging aid for the families of undocumented car wash workers detained by federal officials, as well as educating those still on the job about their rights. (Narro was quoted.)
Each person has a unique ‘breath print’ | New York Times
Jack Feldman, a neuroscientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, who has identified brain regions involved in controlling respiration, said the paper revealed an interesting new aspect to breath.
Is Trump right about a ‘migrant invasion’ in L.A.? | Al Jazeera
The voluntary return of Mexican immigrants began after the Great Recession, which was a period of significant economic downturn and financial crisis between 2007 and 2009, Anne Pebley, social demographer and professor of community health sciences at UCLA, found while researching immigration from Mexico and Central America.
Not feeling the same after COVID? You’re not alone | Time
Lauren Wisk, assistant professor in the division of general internal medicine and health services research at the David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, and her team looked at data from people who had COVID-19 at eight health facilities across the U.S. from December 2020 to August 2022. People were asked to fill out surveys every three months for one year about their recovery, recording physical and mental symptoms like anxiety, depression, fatigue, social participation, sleep disturbances, and pain. (Wisk was quoted.)
Is there a blood test for Alzheimer’s Disease? | HealthCentral
This changing therapeutic landscape highlights the need for early diagnosis, which can still drag on for many patients. “On average, it takes more than 18 months for patients to receive an AD diagnosis,” says Jason Hinman, M.D., Ph.D., an associate professor of neurology and the interim co-director of the UCLA Mary S. Easton Center for Alzheimer’s Disease Research and Care in Los Angeles.
Unions are marching alongside immigrants | Marketplace
“Were there some unions that were calling the INS on undocumented workers even in the 1970s? That’s true, that did happen,” said UCLA labor historian Toby Higbie. “But unions began to see that that was a losing strategy.”
