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Smaller water districts hit hardest by L.A. firestorms | Los Angeles Times

“These fires tested the physical and financial limits of our water infrastructure,” said Gregory Pierce, co-director of UCLA’s Luskin Center for Innovation. “We need to think not just about fixing pipes, but about redesigning systems and supporting populations that are more integrated, more equitable, and resilient to the next crisis.”

California’s rising rents are pushing out commuters | CalMatters

“The basic premise of the paper is, ‘Can rising rents help explain why you’re losing transit ridership?’ And it seems to be that they can, because they reduce the likelihood that very high transit riders will live near transit stops,” said urban planning professor Michael Manville, lead author of the paper.

Second phase of Metro subsidy program to kick off in July after delay | LAist

Teams of researchers from UCLA and UC Davis evaluated the results of Phase 1 of the Metro Mobility program, which involved 1,000 participants from South L.A. According to interviews with 31 participants, researchers from UCLA found that the extra help to afford moving around the city resulted in financial relief, overall stress reduction and increased connection with family and friends.

Shrinking Colorado River strains California's vital water supply | L.A. Times

“This is another year that is not going to help the Colorado basin’s long-term water crisis. It’s going to make things worse,” said Daniel Swain, a UCLA climate scientist. “This year will once again be putting more stress on the Colorado system.”

Self-employed women may have better heart health | Medical Xpress

The study is one of the few to use measures obtained from lab tests and body measures, rather than relying on self-reported measures, to explore the relationship between self-employment and heart disease risk factors, said lead author Dr. Kimberly Narain, assistant professor-in-residence of medicine in the division of general internal medicine and health services research at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. It is also the only study to consider differences across sex and racial/ethnic minority status.

Nutritionists reveal how much protein you really need | Good Housekeeping 

Essentially, protein is a chain of amino acids that every cell in your body needs to do its job. “Protein is the main building block for our body,” says Zhaoping Li, the director of the Center for Human Nutrition and the chief of the Division of Clinical Nutrition at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

OpenAI can stop pretending | The Atlantic

In its December announcement, OpenAI described the restructure as “the next step in our mission.” But Michael Dorff, another signatory to the open letter and a law professor at UCLA who studies public-benefit corporations, explained to me that PBCs aren’t necessarily an effective way to bring about public good. “They are not great enforcement tools,” he said—they can “nudge” a company toward a given cause but do not give regulators much authority over that commitment.