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Billions for wildfire smoke protection | Washington Post
“Looking at the issue from the global perspective is very difficult to do,” said Yifang Zhu, a professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. Data across countries on wildfire-related indoor air quality is limited and uneven. “There is also a general scarcity of prior research on this topic in many parts of the world,” she added. (Also: Zhu and UCLA’s Jing Li were quoted in The Guardian.)
Surgeon general pick marks new era | Axios
The role has changed dramatically since its inception, when the position had significant regulatory powers to issue federal public health orders, says Lindsay Wiley, a professor of health law at UCLA.
Medi-Cal could end weight loss drug coverage | CalMatters
An estimated 18 million adults in California are obese or overweight, according to the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
Deportation goal inspired by falsehood | Washington Post
Kelly Lytle Hernández, a history professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, dug into the records and found that Border Patrol apprehended only 33,307 people after the operation started and before the fiscal year ended. In the following fiscal year — July 1, 1954, to June 30, 1955 — 254,096 people were apprehended. The program ended a few months after the end of the 1955 fiscal year. (Hernández was quoted.)
Zuckerberg wants AI to solve America’s loneliness crisis | Time
Connection is what makes us human, and despite Zuckerberg’s enthusiasm, there’s clear evidence that real human interaction can’t be replaced by machines. Neuroscientist Marco Iacoboni of UCLA highlights the role of “mirror neurons,” specialized brain cells activated only through direct human interactions, crucial for empathy and emotional understanding, capacities AI interactions cannot stimulate.
Jeju Island free divers have ‘superpower’ in their genes | NPR
The women start diving as girls and continue well into old age, across all of life’s milestones. “They dive throughout their whole pregnancy,” says Diana Aguilar-Gómez, a population geneticist at UCLA. “They say they just dive until basically before they give birth,” and are back in the water a few days later.
Can a self-driving bus help Riverside? | Los Angeles Times
“In a place like California ... these can help fill some gaps that were created,” said Juan Matute, UCLA’s deputy director of the Institute of Transportation Studies. “This provides another option for when maybe there’s lower ridership to justify transit or maybe they want something that can circulate on the smaller streets a little bit more.”
‘Lopez vs. Lopez’ ax shows broadcast struggles | De Los
The cancellation does not come as a surprise to Ana-Christina Ramón, director of the Entertainment and Media Research Initiative at UCLA, who says that broadcast television has been going through a difficult period: “It’s unfortunate that one show is a victim to the changing industry.”
The darker reason Trump going after law firms | New York Times
(Commentary by UCLA’s Scott Cummings) Every year, The American Lawyer publishes a scorecard ranking big law firms by the amount of pro bono service they provide. In 2024, the top firms on the list were Jenner & Block, Covington & Burling and WilmerHale, whose lawyers collectively donated over 400,000 hours to cases advancing the rights of L.G.B.T.Q. people, helping immigrants gain asylum and fighting voter disenfranchisement, among other causes.
Depardieu verdict a change for France’s #MeToo | New York Times
The defense itself was very much in keeping with the history of #MeToo in France, which Laure Murat, an expert on #MeToo in France at the University of California, Los Angeles, describes as a “counter-history.” “There was a backlash, which preceded the event, before anything happened,” said Ms. Murat.
A woman’s fight to help aspiring doctors with disabilities | NPR
Taylor Carty is now working on a Master of Public Health degree at UCLA. She says she wants to create change through policy to help more people with disabilities become physicians. “I know there’s a young child who is putting on that stethoscope,” she says, “and I want to make that accessible for them.”
Extreme heat and flooding in the U.S. | NBC Nightly News
“Both of these – extreme heat events and heavy downpours – are precisely the two kinds of extreme weather phenomena that are most clearly linked to climate change,” said UCLA’s Daniel Swain (approx. 1:30 mark).
