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UCLA’s Powell Library spotlighted | KCAL-TV

University campuses often host some of the most architecturally impressive buildings you’ll see. In tonight’s “Look at This!” our Desmond Shaw is over one such building in Westwood.

New wildfire health data | LAist

Every year, the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research asks thousands of California households about topics that influence health, the largest state survey of its kind in the U.S. The findings of the 2024 California Health Interview Survey, which has just been released, show that nearly 14 million adults personally experienced a wildfire or were exposed to smoke from one. (UCLA’s Todd Hughes was quoted.)

Will Altadena residents ‘come home’? | Los Angeles Daily News

Altadena’s residents are immersed in a post-Eaton fire rebuild process complicated by a slow-moving permitting process, economic uncertainty, underinsurance issues and the entry of outside investors, who have bought up two-thirds of severely damaged homes in the area, according to the UCLA fact sheet. The stakes are high if Altadena is to retain the cultural diversity it once had, say researchers from the university’s Latino Policy and Politics Institute and the Center for Neighborhood Knowledge, both part of the Luskin School of Public Affairs. (UCLA’s Gabriella Carmona was quoted. Also: LAist 89.3-FM.)

In parts of California, all new homes in path of fire | San Francisco Chronicle

“It’s the weight of history that is continuing to force this kind of land-development pattern,” said Stephanie Pincetl, a professor at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. “You are actively putting people in danger now. You really are. How do you unravel all of this?”

Where can pregnant women get the COVID-19 vaccine? | NBC’s “Today”

Dr. Neil Silverman, professor of clinical obstetrics and gynecology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, sees this as only the latest step in a “battle on public health.” He tells Today.com that COVID-19 vaccines are being used as a “political football,” and says the loss of trust in federal health systems is “not just saddening, but infuriating.”

AIDS trailblazer: How to stay hopeful about public health | Los Angeles Times

But a team of researchers from UCLA and other institutions recently concluded that the Trump administration’s plan to shutter the U.S. Agency for International Development, a foreign aid program, and rescind already-appropriated funding to it could lead to millions of people dying of HIV/AIDS over the next five years who could have been protected through HIV outreach, testing and lifesaving drugs.

U.S. Supreme Court case could gut Voting Rights Act | The Guardian

“The two key pillars, at least since 1982, were section two and section five,” said Richard Hasen, an election law scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles. “Shelby County already knocked down one of those pillars, and this case could potentially either knock it down or render it so weak that you might as well say it’s been knocked down.” He added that weakening but not killing section two might “potentially avoid some of the political cost”.