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Carol Burnett donates awards to UCLA, endows new scholarship | Variety

The UCLA alum and Hollywood icon has announced two major gifts to the school: An endowment to establish a scholarship at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, as well as a donation of the more than 140 industry awards and honors that Burnett has received over her seven-decade career. (UCLA’s Celine Parreñas Shimizu was quoted. Also: The Hollywood Reporter and KABC-TV.)

Scientists unveil first draft of atlas of the developing brain | Reuters

“The developing brain is an incredibly enigmatic structure because it is hard to access, comprised of so many distinct cell types, and rapidly changing. While we knew the big-picture shifts that happen during brain development, we now have a much more detailed understanding of what the pieces of the developing brain are because of this set of atlases,” said UCLA neuroscientist Aparna Bhaduri, another of the research leaders.

Republicans swiftly challenge California’s new House maps | New York Times

“These arguments are not frivolous, but they are not going to be easy, and the timing is going to present a major challenge,” said Richard Hasen, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. (Hasen was also quoted by Bloomberg Law.)

If EPA abandons climate policy, could California take over? | CalMatters

A former federal official and expert on the Clean Air Act — who is also a law professor at UCLA — first floated this idea. Ann Carlson wrote in the law journal Environmental Forum that an aggressive federal action against climate policy “could, ironically, provide states with authority they’ve never had before.”

Trump deal to lower cost of GLP-1 drugs | KCAL-TV

“Like all the drugs, not everyone can benefit from it. That varies from the degree of weight loss, and also from potential side effects. The indication right now, it is for folks with body mass index above 30, or above 27, but with significant obesity-related chronic medical conditions,” said UCLA’s Dr. Zhaoping Li.

Officials working on Plan B in case Trump cuts BART funding | KQED-FM

Jacob Wasserman, a research program manager at the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies, agreed he doesn’t think projects like VTA’s BART extension would be cut off entirely by the federal government. But there could still be trouble caused by any meddling with the funding, he said, and political leadership could play a big role.

Torrance couple welcomes rare identical triplets | KABC-TV

“This is pretty rare, it only happens in about one in 100,000 deliveries,” said Dr. Ilina Pluym, an OB/GYN with UCLA Health. She said multiple pregnancies can be very tricky. “Not only do you have complications that come from triplets, but you have a unique set of complications from them all sharing the same blood supply,” Pluym said.