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New ‘civic bravery’ award recognizes citizens who step up | Associated Press

Jana Gallus, a professor at UCLA Anderson School of Management who has studied awards, praised the decision to allow the individual recipients to decide where to give the grant funding. It creates a gift that keeps on giving with the recognition transferring from the awardee to the nonprofit, she said.

Universities hit by U.S. funding drain have legal ways to recover | Bloomberg

(Commentary by UCLA’s Jill Horwitz) If there was ever time for universities to raid their endowments, it may be now, as they face existential threats to education, research, independent thought, and the search for truth.

This chart of the planet’s forests should frighten you | Vox

The lack of progress is frustrating, said Elsa Ordway, an ecologist and tropical forest expert at University of California Los Angeles who was not involved in the analysis. For many people, reports about forest loss seem to be just “background noise,” she said. “When we’re thinking about a planetary crisis that our entire species needs to confront and it’s being ignored, it’s incredibly disheartening,” Ordway said. “We need to be taking these trends very seriously.”

Russia and Ukraine agree to ceasefire talks | KCAL-TV

“Both of them have described it as pleasant calls. I think for Vladimir Putin, it was more favorable,” said UCLA’s Benjamin Radd.

L.A. has laid a real foundation to reduce homelessness | Los Angeles Times

(Commentary by UCLA’s Brian Levy) Los Angeles’ continuing struggle to reduce homelessness has become Exhibit No. 1 for a broader critique of the failure of progressive governance. Recent tensions between the city and the county over how to organize homeless services have not helped. But look a little deeper and something more promising comes into focus.

Court halts Temecula school district ban on critical race theory | L.A. Times

Six other California school systems have adopted anti-CRT policies or resolutions, according to a UCLA Law School tracking project that was active through the end of 2024.