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Julio Frenk inaugurated as UCLA chancellor | Los Angeles Times
Frenk said the university should strive “to be connective, to be impactful and to be exemplary.” (Also: Univision, El Heraldo de Mexico, KTTV-TV, KMEX-TV and Spectrum News 1.)
Whooping cough is surging. Do you need another shot? | New York Times
Dr. James Cherry, a longtime pertussis researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles, said if all women were given the Tdap shot in their third trimester, as is recommended by the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention], the country could eliminate “virtually all deaths” from whooping cough.
Hazy futures | Science
There is little agreement on how best to convert climate models, which simulate the entire world at coarse resolutions, into the detailed local forecasts of temperature and rainfall that planners crave. Different methods lead to drastically different projections, especially in terms of rainfall — even when using the same climate model. “It really is a mess right now,” says Alex Hall, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Why forecasters see a hot summer ahead | San Francisco Chronicle
Why are the forecast models so sure of the heat? UCLA Climate scientist Daniel Swain sees two forces at work. First, he says, is the rising baseline: “Climate change means most recent summers already start warmer than the 30- to 40-year average.” Second is an ocean pattern forecast models clearly detect even if meteorologists are not exactly sure what it is.
