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UCLA doctors leading charge for use of AI to address cancer | KCAL-TV

“I believe now more than ever that AI has the potential to transform health care,” [said UCLA’s Dr. Corey Arnold.] (UCLA’s Dr. Steven Raman was also featured.)

UCLA’s ASA shows pride through philanthropy and education | KCAL-TV

UCLA is a campus full of life, diversity and Bruin pride. For hundreds of students on campus, that also includes Armenian pride. (UCLA students Mary Keushkerian and Lusin Yengibaryan were featured.)

Downsizing local news contributes to aging infrastructure | LAist 89.3-FM

We’re living in a time where journalists around the country continue to lose jobs at an alarming rate. A new study finds a strong tie between local reporting and what happens in our elections. Researchers at UCLA and Duke University examined how people vote on funding for critical infrastructure needs. (UCLA’s Megan Mullin was featured.)

Mexico elects its first female president | KABC-TV

“A lot of Mexicans living abroad, especially in California, especially in Los Angeles, went out,” said UCLA’s Gaspar Rivera-Salgado (approx. 1:53 mark).

Rubio’s closing 48 locations due to “rising cost … in California” | KCAL-TV

UCLA economist Brian Wheaton says this is the exact type of company that’s vulnerable to increased costs of any nature. “Those business that are ... not doing very well, near the shutdown margin, this increase in costs when they try to pass it on their consumers, ... it may be the thing that pushes them over the edge into a situation where they go out of business,” Wheaton said. “ I think that’s the sort of thing we’re seeing in the case of Rubio’s.”

Shape, depth of ocean floor influence how carbon is stored there | Scienmag

A new study finds that the shape and depth of the ocean floor explain up to 50% of the changes in depth at which carbon has been sequestered in the ocean over the past 80 million years … “We were able to show, for the first time, that the shape and depth of the ocean floor play major roles in the long-term carbon cycle,” said Matthew Bogumil, the paper’s lead author and a UCLA doctoral student of earth, planetary and space sciences. (UCLA’s Carolina Lithgow-Bertellon was also quoted. Also: ScienceDaily.)

Ancient crystals reveal the earliest evidence of fresh water | CNN

Geochemist Beth Ann Bell, an assistant researcher at UCLA’s department of earth, planetary and space sciences, said the very light isotope values “made a strong case” for interactions between rock and fresh water during the Hadean period, which implied some amount of dry land at that time. She wasn’t involved in the study.