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UCLA softball star Rachel Garcia named Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year | USA Today
There are few collegiate athletes with resumes as long as Rachel Garcia’s, and UCLA’s star pitcher added yet another trophy to her collection Monday night. At the Collegiate Women Sports Awards Show in Los Angeles, Garcia won the Honda Cup, which the CWSA presents annually to the top female collegiate athlete. The accolade is one of many she picked up while leading the Bruins to their first Women’s College World Series title since 2010. (Also: Associated Press, ESPN)
UCLA scientists studying AIDS drug to accelerate stroke recovery | KABC-TV
An AIDS drug may become the first-ever pharmaceutical treatment from a human gene discovery to help patients recover from stroke. Researchers at UCLA discovered that people missing a certain gene recover from stroke well…. S. Tom Carmichael, MD, PhD, professor and chair of Neurology at UCLA’s Geffen School of Medicine, believes a missing gene may speed up stroke recovery, and that may lead to a medication that helps. “It'’s tempered hope, but it’s a pathway, and we haven’t had a lot of those,” said Carmichael.
As state funding runs out, California stem cell scientists get $30 million gift | San Diego Union-Tribune
California stem cell researchers are getting $30 million to advance therapies for diseases of youth to old age under three grants from the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation…. The $30 million is equally divided among Broad Foundation stem cell centers at UC Los Angeles, UC San Francisco and the University of Southern California.
She needed open-heart surgery, but she was determined to help her team win a championship first | CNN
Not many people would postpone lifesaving heart surgery. But Stevie Wisz did just that in order to fulfill a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: winning a college softball national championship. Wisz was diagnosed as an infant with aortic stenosis, a heart condition that causes the narrowing of the aortic valve and restricts blood flow from the left ventricle to the aorta…. A senior at the University of California, Los Angeles, Wisz was determined to finish her final year and earn her degree in biology. She also wanted to help the Bruins win their 12th NCAA softball championship. (Also: Los Angeles Times, ESPN)
It’s not so much the debate. It’s the days after the debate | New York Times Opinion
(Commentary written by UCLA’s Lynn Vavreck) Presidential debates can be dramatic. The effects on viewers (and voters), however, are more subtle. As you prepare to watch the first primary debate Wednesday-Thursday (and the 11 to follow), let go of the notion that any single moment is going to shift the state of the race overnight. That is not to say that debates aren’t important, but real consequences tend to emerge only in the days and weeks after the debate as the news media, candidates and voters react.
In seeking reparations for slavery, it’s time to speak up. And it’s OK to be angry | Washington Post Perspective
Kimberle Crenshaw, a professor of law at UCLA and Columbia University, told me that it’s important to remember that “slavery was not just the theft of labor but the theft of black women’s sexual autonomy.” “It was the theft of family, theft of the right to motherhood, theft of an image of oneself in order to justify all of the abuse,” she said.
A guide to fact checks of candidates seeking the Democratic nomination | Washington Post Analysis
Over the course of his Senate career, Biden was usually at or about the 25 most liberal members of the Senate, according to Voteview, a well-regarded database at the University of California at Los Angeles. Voteview offers every congressional roll-call vote in American history on a liberal-conservative ideological map, including information about the ideological positions of voting senators and House members.
Why has going to the movies gotten so expensive? | MSN
The movie industry now relies more on big budget blockbusters to make money as those are the films that consumers are more likely to shell out money for, said Glenn Williamson, an independent producer and a lecturer at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. The major studios have gotten “very successful” at doing “visual effects-driven movies,” Williamson said, because they know consumers are willing to pay top dollar for those big events.
Trump backtracks on ICE raids | KPCC-FM’s “AirTalk”
“They’re certainly doing a lot of sabre rattling. They’re making a lot of loud announcements. It is consistent, as you noted at the top of the segment, with other strategies and tactics. There are a lot of big claims and big threats, but then nothing ends up happening,” said UCLA’s Matt Barreto. (Approx. 3:45 mark)
‘Erosion in acceptance’ of LGBTQ people among young Americans, survey finds | NBC News
A recent poll from the Williams Institute at UCLA found about half of voters are less likely to support a candidate because they are over 70. Just 34 percent of respondents said they would be less likely to support a candidate because he or she is gay.
Supreme Court decision on protection of trademarks | KPCC-FM’s “Take Two”
“Federal law provides protection for trademarks. If you register your trademark, you get special kinds of protection that businesses generally want to have, to prevent others from using the trademark. But, there is an exception to that — an exclusion of marks that are disparaging, immoral or scandalous, among some other things,” said UCLA’s Eugene Volokh. (Approx. 2:20 mark)
Nine architects (and Elvira) rank L.A.’s most gloriously ugly buildings | Interview
“A lot of people forget that the most important patron of contemporary architecture in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s was Disney under Michael Eisner — Arata Isozaki, and Frank Gehry, and Michael Graves all built for them, and Los Angeles was a beneficiary for a bunch of that. The Team Disney Building by Michael Graves is a monumental landmark that is oriented primarily toward the automobile, as opposed to a pedestrian thinking of the city. Its gnome columns which are totally tacky kitsch — are scaled and positioned to be seen from the freeway,” said UCLA’s Greg Lynn. (UCLA’s Thom Mayne is also quoted.)
A new argument in the debate over Airbnb: Stranger danger | HuffPost
“When businesses face major threats that could potentially harm their whole industry, these kinds of ‘grassroots’ campaigns start to happen in a pretty serious way,” Edward Walker, a University of California, Los Angeles, sociology professor told the Center for Public Integrity in 2015. Stop Child Predators and AirbnbWATCH both tweet using a number of phrases featured in AHLA press releases, including “commercial landlords” and “revolving door of strangers.”
TV watching may be the most unhealthy type of sitting | HealthDay
“These findings reinforce current recommendations to reduce time spent sitting and to engage in at least 150 minutes per week of moderate intensity aerobic activity spread throughout the week,” said Dr. Gregg Fonarow, an American Heart Association spokesman and professor of cardiology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Fargo Theatre to screen groundbreaking LGBT documentary ‘Gay USA’ | InForum
“In sort of a film nerd sense, it’s a really prime moment to show this film because Frameline Distribution, which is one of the best-known LGBTQ film distributors in the country, has teamed up with (the University of California, Los Angeles) to restore the film from the original 16mm,” Rea said. “I teach LGBTQ film classes and for years and years I rented this film, a really bad VHS copy of the original 16mm, so it just didn’t translate all that well. But now I think this print as restored by UCLA is actually made from the 16mm so it should be beautiful. It should look really good.”
Atmospheric rivers getting warmer along U.S. West Coast | Phys.org
To study whether atmospheric rivers are warming in response to climate change, Gonzales and colleagues at Stanford, University of California-Los Angeles and Colorado State University in Fort Collins turned to 36 years of temperature data collected before, during and after atmospheric river events made landfall on the western U.S.
LGBTQ asylum seekers need protection from our government, not hostility | Bustle Opinion
There are over 15,000 LGBTQ people seeking asylum in the United States and an estimated 250,000 more unauthorized immigrants who self-identify as LGBTQ, according to the Williams Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles. They are among the most vulnerable and most likely to experience abuse, sexual assault, solitary confinement, and deficient medical care while detained.
Researcher looks for ways to detect deadly ovarian cancer before it develops | Medical Xpress
Dr. Beth Karlan, the newly appointed director of cancer population genetics at UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, is hopeful that her research will not only help women get diagnosed with ovarian cancer at an earlier stage, but also identify the women who are most at-risk so they can intervene before the cancer even develops.
