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How pink dye can help Santa Monica Bay water quality | Los Angeles Times

The luminous, pink color spreading across the Santa Monica Bay is from a temporary, nontoxic dye that researchers are using to study how ocean circulation might contribute to the bay’s poor water quality. The project kicked off Monday morning, as researchers with UCLA and The Bay Foundation discharged the first of four batches of the pink dye near the Santa Monica Pier. (UCLA’s Isabella Arzeno-Sotero, Gabriela Carr and Timu Gallien were quoted. Also: Los Angeles Magazine.)

Vital to California economy, Latino workers face deep inequities | Fresno Bee

“Our findings show a need for targeted investment in opportunities to increase the number of students completing higher education,” said UCLA research analyst Rosario Majano, one of the authors of the reports. “As college education continues to get more expensive, Latino students from low-income households will face compounding challenges to accessing higher education.”

Lead lingers even after Eaton fire cleanup, final report finds | L.A. Times

Independent soil testing conducted by The Times provided the first evidence in May that Army Corps crews were leaving behind lead contamination in Altadena’s soil. Subsequent tests by a UCLA research group also found that 49% of the cleaned properties still had lead.

What happens to your hair if you shave, cut or pluck it | Washington Post

Similarly, trimming has no bearing on the hair follicle or the growth rate. It can, however, help reduce split ends that cause breakage, said Delila Foulad, an assistant clinical professor and a dermatologist focusing on hair and scalp disorders at UCLA Health.

America’s deportation history | New York Times

In a project unveiled exclusively to The New York Times on Monday, a team of researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, released a sweeping new look at that picture. The researchers mapped the eight million deportation orders that the United States issued between 2022 and 1895, the time range for when the earliest and latest data was available. (UCLA’s Kelly Lytle Hernández and Mariah Tso were quoted; UCLA’s Ahilan Arulanantham was cited.)