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California stem cell research centers receive $30-million gift from Broad Foundation | Los Angeles Times
At UCLA, the new money will help scientists translate basic discoveries into actual treatments for patients. Over the last dozen years, researchers there have learned to modify the genes in stem cells, studied ways of using the cells to replace damaged tissues in patients, and worked on strategies for immunotherapy. But the university needs money to carry these experimental treatments through the testing process. (Also: Los Angeles Business Journal)
California regulators mull penalties over huge 2015 gas leak | Associated Press
In a study that appeared Wednesday in the peer-reviewed journal Environment International, researchers said air quality samples collected near the site during the blowout showed elevated levels of pollutants “known or suspected to be associated with serious health problems.” The study was done by the University of California, Los Angeles Fielding School of Public Health. (Also: City News Service)
After 50 years, Asian American studies programs can still be hard to find | NBC News
The first Asian American studies curricula were established at the University of California, Berkeley, San Francisco State University and the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1969. But only a handful of post-secondary institutions offer degrees in the field today.
Biden takes flak on race and busing. But his view may still mirror America’s | Washington Post
Today, 65 years after the landmark decision in Brown, the segregation of black students is expanding, according to a report published in May by the University of California at Los Angeles’s Civil Rights Project. Other minority populations, including growing communities of Latino and Asian students, are similarly isolated, the report found. “Segregation is expanding in almost all regions of the country. Little has been done for a generation,” Gary Orfield, the project’s co-director, said in a release. “There has been no meaningful federal government effort devoted to foster the voluntary integration of the schools, and it has been decades since federal agencies funded research about effective strategies for school integration.”
Here are the Democrats who gained and lost the most in the first 2020 presidential primary debate | CNBC
In a tweet, Democratic presidential candidate John Delaney called Harris’ criticism of Biden an “incredible moment.” Lynn Vavreck, a professor of American politics and public policy at UCLA, called the moment “among the more amazing things I have seen in a political debate.” She added that Harris “had an amazing night.”
Why the first Democratic debates will force 2020 candidates to get serious about immigration policy | Time
Matt Barreto, co-founder of Latino Decisions and a political scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, highlighted former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julian Castro, California Sen. Kamala Harris and former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke as the candidates who have signaled they are prioritizing immigration by releasing detailed policy blueprints. “It’s taken as a given that you’re strongly opposed to the Trump administration’s immigration policies,” Barreto says. “The other candidates do need to get more specific about what they would do and how they would do it.”
L.A. is hemorrhaging bus riders — worsening traffic and hurting climate goals | Los Angeles Times
Last year, UCLA researchers found that Southern California families have scrimped and saved to put even modest pay increases toward cars, aided by the rise of low- and zero-interest auto loans. From 2000 to 2015, the share of households that had no access to a car fell 30%. In immigrant households, it fell 42%.
Analysis of first Democratic presidential debate | KCAL-TV
“This was an opportunity for all of these candidates, on the biggest stage they will have faced up until this point, to introduce themselves to the American voters,” said UCLA’s Zev Yaroslavsky. “I think most of them made the most of the opportunity. I thought it was a good debate.”
UCLA Medical Center ranked No. 7 best hospital in the country by U.S. News | Business Insider
Ranked as the second-best hospital in California, UCLA Medical Center is a teaching hospital located on the University of California, Los Angeles, campus. According to U.S. News it is nationally ranked in 14 adult specialties and rated “high performing” in seven adult procedures and conditions. The medical center is also one of the first hospitals designed to keep working during natural disasters such as earthquakes.
California affordable housing crisis has critics asking: Where’s Kamala? | Vice
“If she’s not going to advocate for Los Angeles, for San Francisco, for the tens of thousands of people who are sleeping on the street every night in those places, who will?” said Michael Lens, an associate faculty director of the University of California-Los Angeles’s Center for Regional Policy Studies. “Who has a higher profile and stronger connection to those places than she does?”
California budget restores adult Medi-Cal benefits cut a decade ago | California Health Report
According to a 2016 UCLA study, about 9 percent of California adults have been diagnosed with diabetes, and 46 percent are either prediabetic or have the disease and have yet to be diagnosed.… Nadereh Pourat, professor-in-residence at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, has closely observed the issues trying to get dentists to return to treating Medi-Cal patients. “If you increase the fees, participation may go up, but not dollar for dollar,” she said.
Bill de Blasio: Missing in action | The Nation Opinion
(Commentary written by UCLA’s Pedro Noguera) Like former N.Y. Mayor Mike Bloomberg, de Blasio has asserted on numerous occasions that he wants to control public schools in New York City. However, on the issue of segregation in schools, he seems more interested in hoping it will go away than providing moral leadership.
Ahead of the first Democratic debates, only three candidates have released immigration plans | Pacific Standard
It’s likely that, in the coming months, other Democrats will release policy proposals on immigration. As Matt Barreto, co-founder of the polling firm Latino Decisions and a political scientist at the University of California–Los Angeles, told Time, Democrats will be expected to oppose Trump’s immigration record — but to distinguish themselves, they’ll need to offer new plans of their own.
Atomic motion captured in 4-D for the first time | Phys.org
A UCLA-led team has gained a never-before-seen view of nucleation — capturing how the atoms rearrange at 4-D atomic resolution (that is, in three dimensions of space and across time). The findings, published in the journal Nature, differ from predictions based on the classical theory of nucleation that has long appeared in textbooks. “This is truly a groundbreaking experiment — we not only locate and identify individual atoms with high precision, but also monitor their motion in 4-D for the first time,” said senior author Jianwei “John” Miao, a UCLA professor of physics and astronomy. (Also: Tech Explorist, UPI)
U.S. advisory panel stops short of broad recommendations for two common vaccines | STAT
Several of the committee members who voted against continuing to recommend Prevnar 13 for all adults 65 and older pointed to what Dr. Peter Szilagyi, vice-chair for pediatric research at the University of California, Los Angeles, described as “the remarkable success of the pediatric program.”
California doctors to begin screening children for trauma | Education Dive
And in the Los Angeles Unified School District, a new immigration legal clinic has opened in the RFK Community Schools, in partnership with the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law and the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.
Next edition of Pacific Standard Time looks at the intersection of art and science | The Art Newspaper
Pacific Standard Time, the regional Getty-led collaborative event launched in 2011 to explore the arts and culture of Southern California, is wading into new waters for its next edition, to be held in 2024. PST: Art x Science x LA will look at the intersection of art and science. The Getty is teaming up with the Hammer Museum at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), home to the LACMA Art + Technology Lab, for the event, which will include public programs, exhibitions and research projects organized and staged by cultural and scientific institutions across Southern California.
Possible strike looms for Southern California grocery store workers | KQED-FM’s “The California Report”
“There was a major change in peoples’ buying habits, where they began to explore other markets,” said UCLA’s Kent Wong.
