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UC Nobel Prize haul sets record, system says | Inside Higher Ed

Five faculty members and researchers affiliated with the University of California system won a Nobel Prize this year, setting what the system says is a world record. The faculty won Nobel Prizes in medicine, physics and chemistry. The winners for physics and chemistry currently work in the system, while the university is also counting Frederick Ramsdell, who graduated from UC San Diego and UCLA and was part of the group awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in medicine.

Microbusinesses in fire areas remain vulnerable | Los Angeles Daily News

Microbusinesses in the path of January’s Eaton and Palisades fires bore the brunt of the impact to the local business community in both areas, and those that were not destroyed remain vulnerable, a UCLA research series found. Silvia González, director of research at the Latino Policy and Politics Institute, said the research series was done through a collaboration with the UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge, which provided the expertise in tracking neighborhood level changes. 

College students’ rates of depression and anxiety are falling | Newsweek

“While overall access to mental health services seems to be similar to previous years, the good news is that students are accessing an increasingly diverse array of resources,” said Daniel Eisenberg, a co-principal investigator on the project and professor in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health’s Department of Health Policy and Management in a statement. (Also: LAist.)

There is some science behind eldest daughter syndrome | HuffPost

A UCLA-led research team found that, in certain instances, first-born daughters tend to mature earlier, enabling them to help their mother rear younger siblings. Specifically, the researchers found a correlation between early signs of adrenal puberty in first-born daughters and their mothers having experienced high levels of prenatal stress. (UCLA’s Molly Fox was quoted.) 

170 U.S. citizens detained by ICE for days, abused | ProPublica

“The often-inadequate guardrails that we have for state and local government — even those guardrails are nonexistent when you’re talking about federal overreach,” said Joanna Schwartz, a professor at UCLA School of Law.

Trump’s $150 Ozempic? Oz cautions it’s not a done deal | CNN

Dr. William Feldman, a physician and health policy researcher at UCLA, pointed out Novo Nordisk is also in negotiations with Oz’s CMS over pricing of semaglutide — the generic name of Ozempic and Wegovy — for Medicare, under a framework laid out in President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act. He noted it’s not clear if a $150 monthly price would be part of those negotiations or a broader agreement outside them.