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UCLA receives $31 million gift for research | Los Angeles Business Journal

UCLA Health has received yet another major gift — this time a $31 million commitment from Dr. Allen and Charlotte Ginsburg. The donation is the latest to go toward biomedical research efforts at the future UCLA Research Park being developed in Westwood. “Allen and Charlotte Ginsburg’s visionary contribution to the David Geffen School of Medicine and the UCLA Research Park will have a transformative impact,” said UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk in a statement. “Their generosity supports our acceleration of breakthrough research into real-world solutions – deepening collaboration across disciplines, feeding innovation and strengthening our ties with industry and the broader community.”

Where Prop 50 performed best compared to Harris | San Francisco Chronicle

Analysts said that positioning the redistricting proposal as a finger in the eye of an unpopular president seems to have sealed the deal. “Newsom, Padilla and others framed this as an anti-Trump election,” said Matt Barreto, a UCLA political scientist and longtime Democratic pollster. “And voters were eager to stick it to Trump.”

Legal immigrants face loss of Obamacare help | Politico

Immigration advocates worry that the impact of the loss is being underestimated and predict that entire families could lose access, including U.S. citizen spouses and children. The policy could also raise insurance prices for everyone, said Arturo Bustamante, a professor at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, since immigrants tend to be younger and use fewer health services than the general population.

The GOP is losing Latino voters ahead of the midterms | Los Angeles Times

If the trend continues, it could spell trouble for Republicans in next year’s midterm elections, said Gary Segura, a professor of public policy, political science and Chicana/o studies at UCLA. This could be especially true in California and Texas, where both parties are banking on Latino voters to help them pick up seats in the House, Segura said.

College students are stressed about federal food aid  | Associated Press

Food insecurity on college campuses has been on the rise in the past decade, and students have had to make tough choices about how to stretch their wallets to cover the necessities, said AJ Scheitler, director of the Data Equity Center at the [UCLA Center for Health Policy Research].

How Trump is giving even more tax breaks to the wealthy | New York Times

Not everyone viewed the new tax positively. “But it’s a thing that they were able to do at that moment in time,” said Kimberly Clausing, a top Biden administration Treasury tax official, and now a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.

SCOTUS dismisses challenge to right to marry | Los Angeles Times

In July, the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law estimated there are 823,000 married same-sex couples in the United States and nearly 300,000 children being raised by them.

Welcome to the planet’s newest oil frontier | CNN

“Every new discovery does set back the effort to move the world off fossil fuels; there’s a loss of momentum,” said Michael Ross, a political science professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Harmful cholesterol levels cut in half with gene editing drug | NBC News

“It’s a good proof-of-principle study, meaning we know we can do it,” said Dr. Karol Watson, co-director of the Program of Preventive Cardiology at UCLA Health. “It doesn’t answer the question, ‘Should we do it?’”  

3 types of hair loss and the treatments that actually help | Washington Post

Some people taking GLP-1 medications have reported hair loss, but it’s not clear why that may happen, said Carolyn Goh, a clinical professor of dermatology at UCLA Health. It could be because of rapid weight loss, a change in diet or multiple confounding factors.

National trial to examine if AI aids mammogram interpretation | Healio

“AI is being implemented at a rapid pace into health care in many different ways, and there’s a lot of enthusiasm,” [Dr. Joann] Elmore, also a professor of health policy and management at UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, told Healio. “There have been tens of thousands of studies developing AI tools, but there hasn’t been an adequate amount of studies to show how these potentially helpful AI support tools are actually working in real clinical practice. I am enthusiastic, but I feel that caution is needed.”

Lawyers expose the rising tide of AI slop in court filings | New York Times

Eugene Volokh, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, blogs about AI misuse on The Volokh Conspiracy. He has written about the issue more than 70 times, and contributes to Charlotin’s database. “I like sharing with my readers little stories like this,” Mr. Volokh said, “stories of human folly.”

Welcome to Hollywood! Temper your expectations | The Hollywood Reporter

I called Eric Avila, professor of Chicano studies and urban planning at UCLA and a preeminent historian of Los Angeles. Surely he could give me some perspective. “For those of us who do not live in Hollywood or the Westside, there’s never been the issue of Hollywood and L.A. being the same thing,” he says. Yet this feeling of the industry crumbling “goes back decades. It was really in the late ‘60s and ‘70s that Hollywood [the neighborhood] started becoming less ‘Hollywood’ because production was leaving the L.A. basin.” 

The comet that probably isn’t an alien spaceship | New York Times

“The whole subject is contaminated by this assertion that it might be a spacecraft,” said David Jewitt, an astronomer at the University of California, Los Angeles. “So I think in people’s minds, you know, yeah, it’s a spacecraft.” And, he added, when experts say that it is not, many people think that “they’re covering up.”

Why do millennials feel compelled to write ‘lol’ after everything? | HuffPost

Daria Bahtina, a linguistics lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles, thinks ”lol” is a true linguistic chameleon ― and used a truly millennial comparison to make her point. “It’s been around for so long that its meaning evolved, like a Pokémon,” Bahtina told HuffPost. “And yet ‘lol’ clearly belongs to the digital realm that some people still find confusing.”

Banning social media | New York Times

Many popular apps use powerful attention-hacking techniques that can hook young people, said Julia Powles, an Australian researcher who is the executive director of the UCLA Institute for Technology, Law and Policy. This keeps users online longer, she notes, and makes the companies more money from advertising.