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UCLA honors 1st woman to compose opera | Spectrum News 1

March is International Women’s Month, and a group of UCLA students, staff and local professionals are paying homage to the past. The group will be performing Francesca Caccini’s opera, “A Liberation of Rigero From the Island of Alcina,” on Sunday at the Clark Library in the West Adams area. (UCLA’s Krystal Mao was featured.)

UCLA study reveals role DNA plays in Huntington’s | Los Angeles Times

A new UCLA Health study has discovered in mouse models that genes associated with repairing mismatched DNA are critical in eliciting damages to neurons that are most vulnerable in Huntington’s disease and triggering downstream pathologies and motor impairment, shedding light on disease mechanisms and potential new ways to develop therapies. (UCLA’s Dr. X. William Yang was quoted.)

This blood type may put you at the greatest risk for stroke | Parade

Dr. Jason Hinman, a vascular neurologist at UCLA Health, echoes that hypothesis. Blood types impact the surface protein characteristics of red blood cells, which can make them more or less sticky when they pass through blood vessels, potentially resulting in a blood clot, Hinman says.

Many condemn Trump’s use of 18th century law | Los Angeles Daily News

Professor and immigration lawyer Ahilan Arulanantham, co-director of UCLA’s Center for Immigration Law and Policy, said the wartime act “justifies deportation” and is a way of bypassing due process of law, though its actual use remains somewhat unclear.

City seeks crackdown on hateful language at meetings | Los Angeles Times

Other experts were more dubious. Eugene Volokh, professor of law emeritus at UCLA School of Law, voiced doubts that the proposal would survive a constitutional challenge.

Investigations of severe pollution look increasingly at risk | New York Times

And while the [Environmental Protection Agency] said it remained committed to addressing imminent health threats, the risks from pollution tend to play out over longer periods of time, in the form of increased rates of cancer, birth defects or long-term respiratory and cardiac harm, said Ann Carlson, a professor of environmental law at the UCLA School of Law.

More states requiring paid medical or sick leave | Associated Press

The Family and Medical Leave Act guarantees only unpaid time off. It also doesn’t apply to a large chunk of the workforce, including employees of small businesses that are exempt. This makes the U.S. a “major outlier” globally, according to Aleta Sprague of UCLA’s World Policy Analysis Center. She said that 95% of countries provide some kind of paid leave for personal health.

Hollywood’s DEI-promoting nonprofits face Trump | The Hollywood Reporter

Still, notes Ellen Aprill, a senior scholar at UCLA’s Lowell Milken Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofits, the mere fact of being targeted is often severely damaging to many organizations. “It’s a stigma, especially with donors who have other places they can give,” she explains, “and it takes time and money to fight.”

The robot empathy divide | Axios

“Works of art, Shakespeare’s plays” and similar works give generative AI the ability to help humans with emotions — or at least to make them feel less alone, Chris Mattmann, chief data and AI officer at UCLA, told Axios.

A 10-minute evening yoga routine for better sleep | New York Times

Deep breathing, a key element of yoga, can help you relax by dialing down the fight-or-flight response that keeps your body on high alert, said Dr. Elizabeth Ko, the medical director of the UCLA Health Integrative Medicine Collaborative and a certified yoga instructor.