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Trump targets election rules in new executive order | USA Today
“This executive order, if it could survive the inevitable judicial challenge, would severely shift power over federal elections into the hands of the Presidency,” wrote UCLA law professor Rick Hasen on Election Law Blog. “This would prevent only a tiny amount of noncitizen voter registration but stop millions of eligible voters, who do not have easy access to documents such as passports from registering to vote.” (Hasen was also featured by CNN, BBC News, New York Times, Politico and Washington Post. UCLA’s Scott Cummings was quoted by Bloomberg Law.)
Chewing gum can shed microplastics into saliva, research finds | CNN
“Our goal is not to alarm anybody,” said senior study author Sanjay Mohanty, associate professor at the UCLA [Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science]. “Scientists don’t know if microplastics are unsafe to us or not. There are no human trials. But we know we are exposed to plastics in everyday life, and that’s what we wanted to examine here.” (Also: Popular Science, Newsweek and KTLA-TV.)
California colleges are helping students apply for CalFresh | CalMatters
However, a report released by UCLA in January quoted a respondent, who said, “We surveyed a lot of campuses, and I think only about 12% to 15% of all schools accept EBT somewhere on their campus. And that’s pretty bad, considering that they all can.”
Cuts to NOAA threaten efforts to save sea lions | Los Angeles Times
Daniele Bianchi, an assistant professor in UCLA’s Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, has been studying what causes this normally benign plankton species to start secreting lethal toxins. Bianchi said he and the graduate students in his laboratory — many of whom get funding from NOAA — still don’t understand all the factors.
Partial ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine | KCAL-TV
“It’s difficult to say, given Russia’s new demands, specifically for the lifting of restrictions on exports when it comes to agriculture and fertilizer,” said UCLA’s Benjamin Radd.
How Covid’s mental health toll transformed California’s schools | EdSource
More affluent teens, who lived in houses with more space and more privacy, fared better during the pandemic, said Andrew Fuligni, co-executive director of the UCLA Center for the Developing Adolescent. These kids were more likely to live in communities where they could escape to a park to congregate safely or have reliable internet access to keep in touch virtually.
‘Over 1 million’ people wanted a Cybertruck. Where are they? | Wired
Forbes spoke with experts who estimate that Tesla sank at least $2 billion into the development of the Cybertruck. A traditional car might need 200,000 units per year to cover the research and development costs, Olav Sorenson, professor of strategy and sociology at UCLA and faculty director of [the Harold and Pauline Price Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation], has estimated.
These UCs are rising rapidly in popularity | San Francisco Chronicle
Preliminary 2025 data shows UCLA had the most freshmen applications this cycle, at about 145,000 — which is more than double Riverside’s total and three times Merced’s — followed by San Diego (137,000) and Berkeley (127,000).
