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Alumnus wins Nobel Prize for work on immune systems | New York Times
Dr. Ramsdell is a scientific adviser at Sonoma Biotherapeutics, a company based in San Francisco that he co-founded. He has a Ph.D. in immunology from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Tony Pritzker’s patient strategy | Mongabay Environmental News
That practicality extends to politics. Pritzker insists that environmentalism need not be partisan. He funds UCLA law students to distill research into concise policy briefs, aware that most legislators will never read a 300-page white paper. He seeks conversations with Democrats and Republicans alike, framing environmental stewardship as a matter of facts, children and future prosperity.
How is air quality after El Segundo refinery fire? | KTLA-TV
Suzanne Paulson, a professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at UCLA and director of the UCLA Center for Clean Air, explained that wind direction played a key role. “Fortunately for Los Angeles, the winds were in our favor for this event,” Paulson said. “Last night, winds were mostly either blowing the smoke offshore. More specifically, they blew from that fire along the coast (from south-southeast to north-northwest) moving to completely offshore (from east to west) as the night went on.”
Does Trump really think he can run for president again? | Los Angeles Times
Election law expert Rick Hasen, director of the Safeguarding Democracy Project at the UCLA School of Law, told me he’s less worried about the next presidential election and far more concerned about ways in which Trump might interfere in the 2026 midterms. “I think 2028 is a long way off and assuming that Trump does not try to run again, he may not have that much interest in the next election because he will be done,” Hasen said. “Also, he is 79.”
Tariffs, birthright citizenship will test Trump’s power | Los Angeles Times
Roberts “had been seen as a Republican but not a Trump Republican. But he doesn’t seem interested or willing to put any limits on him,” said UCLA law professor Adam Winkler. “Maybe they think they’re saving their credibility for when it really counts.”
Hamas agrees to release all hostages | KABC-TV
“It’s a lot of qualifiers. It’s a lot of conditionals. It’s a lot of factors remained to be seen. So, it is not exactly what we thought it was, or what everyone is hyping it to be. This is very familiar and consistent with what we’ve seen in the past,” said UCLA’s Benjamin Radd (approx. 1:20 mark. Radd was also interviewed by KNBC-TV.)
Christian group ‘deceived’ SCOTUS about LGBTQ+ research | The Guardian
That paper was based on publicly available data from the Williams Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles, a leading LGBTQ+ policy research center, which concluded in its own 2020 study that sexual minorities exposed to conversion therapy “had nearly twice the odds of lifetime suicidal ideation”. Those researchers reviewed Sullins’ work and said his conclusions were “invalid” and “not supported by the data”. (UCLA’s Ilan Meyer was quoted.)
Future of LGBTQ+ conversion therapy may depend on this case | USA Today
Today, talk therapy is most common, according to the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law, a think tank that researches sexual orientation and gender identity issues.
USC asked to sign commitment to Trump for favorable treatment | LAist
Blake Emerson, a law professor at UCLA, said that if USC and other universities agree to the letter, it could create a “snowball effect” where other institutions follow suit. “They’re trying to make sure that institutions adopt and teach views that are consistent with their political perspective,” he said. “Those are the kinds of moves that make labels like authoritarianism apt and not alarmist.”
California is about to have a massive fight over taxes | CalMatters
One report by researchers at UCLA and the Rand Institute estimated that the measure has resulted in 1,910 fewer apartments per year, including 168 fewer affordable units.
The high-stakes battle over vaccine injury compensation | KFF Health News
“Vaccinations … happened around the time families were recognizing symptoms of autism in their children,” said Catherine Lord, a UCLA clinical psychologist and specialist in autism diagnosis. “However, we now know that autism begins much earlier, likely as the fetus develops during pregnancy, so it cannot be an explanation.”
Eldest daughter syndrome and burnout | U.S. News
“(This study) is an extremely valuable scientific resource,” explains Molly Fox, a biological anthropologist and associate professor in the department of anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. “Because we’re able to follow these families from early pregnancy through the child’s pubertal development, we’re able to ask questions in a prospective way,” she explains.
Tilly the ‘AI actor’ is fake, but her potential to harm women is real | HuffPost
Safiya Noble, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of the book “Algorithms of Oppression,” said Tilly is a continuation of the kind of distortions that social media photo filters cause people. ”Those distortions, even though they are seemingly unreal, they circulate so much in our culture that then are celebrated and ... liked and hearted,” Noble said. “And that certainly has a psychological and emotional toll on us.”
Why Taylor Swift’s songs are stuck in everyone’s head | HuffPost
What does this have to do with earworms? “Your auditory cortex lights up as if you were hearing the song for real, in real time, out loud,” explained Jenna Marcovitz, the director of music therapy in the department of integrative medicine at UCLA Health.
Two comets are moving into your night skies in October | New York Times
About 45 minutes to one hour after sunset, scan low along the horizon. The comet will appear as a “fuzzy ball,” said Yoonyoung Kim, a comet researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles.
A 25-foot inflatable bear has crashed into the Hammer | Los Angeles Times
A new fantastical character is making an appearance at the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Glendon Avenue in Westwood, just outside UCLA’s Hammer Museum. “Buggy Bear Crashes Made in L.A.” is a 25-foot inflatable sculpture of a bear driving a convertible atop a daisy-dotted road. It’s created by Alake Shilling and presented in partnership with Art Production Fund as a companion piece to the museum’s seventh Made in L.A. biennial, which celebrates artists working in various disciplines in the sprawling metropolis.
