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Court: States decide on minors’ trans treatments | New York Times
Just as some states enacted more restrictive abortion limits after Dobbs, states that have enacted partial or total bans on transition treatment for minors may be emboldened to expand on them or enforce them more aggressively, said Brad Sears, a senior scholar at the Williams Institute, a UCLA program that studies LGBTQ legal issues.
Wait 30 minutes after eating before swimming? | Washington Post
“(T)he amount of blood that is shunted is pretty minimal,” said Michael Levine, associate professor of emergency medicine at the University of California at Los Angeles. That’s why the risk of serious injury related to eating before swimming “is essentially zero,” he added.
Colleges face tax blow under proposed IRS rules | Bloomberg
Ellen Aprill, a retired law professor and senior scholar in residence at the University of California at Los Angeles’ law school, said it’s hard to argue that Trump’s stance against DEI constitutes a fundamental public policy. “The anti-DEI policy from the executive branch is one we’ve only seen in the months since Trump took office for a second time,” she said. “Can you imagine the whipsaw if all nonprofits had to adapt to the new positions of the executive branch?”
Trump’s false allegations on voting | Los Angeles Times
Voting as a noncitizen is a felony that can lead to a year in jail or deportation, said Richard Hasen, voting rights expert at UCLA Law School.
L.A. needs new authority to oversee rebuilding | Los Angeles Times
More than 40 academic experts from UCLA provided support to the commission, advising members on recovery and rebuilding after disasters. “Without intentional, deliberate leadership by government, and by government that’s accountable to the communities, an unmanaged recovery process will only widen disparities,” said Megan Mullin, faculty director of the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation, who led the university team. “That is seen over and over again through disaster recovery processes.”
Juneteenth renews call for reparations | USA Today
“What better time to introduce policies that are centering repair and truth than at a time when so much disrepair and lies are abundant,” said Marcus Anthony Hunter, a reparations advocate and a professor of sociology and African American studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Iranian Jews dream of visiting Iran one day | Wall Street Journal
Some say Los Angeles’s weather and even traffic were a draw because it felt like Tehran, but Kevan Harris, associate professor of sociology at UCLA, calls that a myth. For one thing, he notes, it snows in Tehran.
Marijuana’s links to heart attack clearer | New York Times
While these risks seem most likely to occur with long-term exposure, there can also be short-term harms, said Ziva Cooper, the director of the Center for Cannabis and Cannabinoids at the University of California, Los Angeles. One 2001 study suggested that heart attack risk is highest in the hour after smoking marijuana.
Navy vet, 80, joins UCLA graduation | KTLA-TV
While most college students count down the days until they can walk across the commencement stage and bid adieu to the world of academia, rarely do they wait as long as John Fong. Fong graduated from UCLA in 1968 with a degree in history. The day of his commencement, Fong had other obligations: he was due to report to the U.S. Navy for deployment in the Vietnam War. (UCLA’s Kevin Terraciano was quoted. Also: KNBC-TV.)
>10% of those arrested in L.A. have criminal record | La Opinión
“The president’s invasion message attempts to justify an overreaction: deporting people to foreign prisons without checking whether the law allows them to stay, ignoring judges who try to enforce the law, and mobilizing troops in the streets of cities the president intends to attack,” said Hiroshi Motomura, co-director of the UCLA Center for Immigration Law and Policy. (Translated from Spanish.)
Women directors still underrepresented | IndieWire
The annual UCLA Hollywood Diversity Report is continuing to chart the spaces in which filmmaking remains unequal. The 2025 report, which examined the top 100 English-language film releases on major streaming platforms (Amazon Prime, Apple TV+, Disney+, Hulu, Max, Netflix, Paramount+, and Peacock) in 2024, found that, while films with more racially diverse casts performed better on streaming platforms, female filmmakers are still underrepresented when it comes to big budget features. (UCLA’s Michael Tran, Ana-Christina Ramón and Darnell Hunt were quoted.)
Hunger strike begins following new prison restrictions | CalMatters
“It’s an open secret that staff are the primary vector of contraband into the prison,” said Sharon Dolovich, a law professor at UCLA. She said a lockdown may be a useful tool if it’s done in a limited way, but the department’s blanket policy appears to be hard to defend.
Study reveals biggest risk factors for early dementia | BuzzFeed
The study is meaningful to experts because it “looks at young-onset dementia risk factors in a way that has only been done in late-onset dementias previously,” according to Dr. Kevin Bickart, an assistant professor in neurology at the University of California Los Angeles Health’s David Geffen School of Medicine. The study features “a very large sample that was prospectively followed from healthy baseline to a dementia diagnosis with lots of data collection.”
UCLA forecast sees California downturn over tariffs | Xinhua
U.S. California’s economy is on track to contract later this year as escalating tariffs and high-profile immigration raids sap confidence, squeeze supply chains and keep would-be workers at home, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Anderson Forecast warned in its summer outlook released Wednesday. (UCLA’s Jerry Nickelsburg was quoted. Also: KTLA-TV.)
UCLA psychologist inspired ‘Love on the Spectrum’ | KPCC-FM’s “AirTalk”
If you’ve watched “Love on the Spectrum” on Netflix, you’ve seen the heartwarming — and sometimes awkward — journeys of people on the autism spectrum navigating the world of dating. What you may not know is that behind that hit show is a real-life dating boot camp, developed by psychologists at UCLA. (UCLA’s Liz Laugeson was interviewed – approx. 30:00 mark).
Israel and Iran at war | KNBC-TV
“Israel will continue to do what it’s been doing, continue to launch missiles and attack Iran’s ballistic missile sites and nuclear sites in an attempt to weaken as much as it can, without the benefit of the US massive ordinance penetrator: the bunker buster bomb,” said UCLA’s Benjamin Radd (Radd was also interviewed by CNN.)
