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UCLA hosts science fair for suspended research | Spectrum News 1
With that in mind, UCLA held a science fair today, highlighting the specific research that is at-risk, and putting it on display. (UCLA’s Dr. William Zeiger and Dr. Carrie Bearden were interviewed.)
New policies are making life harder for trans people | NPR
The financial consequences of these policies are falling on a community that’s long been financially disadvantaged, says Brad Sears, founding director of the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law, which researches gender identity law and policy. Sears says these disadvantages can begin early in life, when some transgender people are kicked out of their homes as teenagers, beginning a cascade of money problems.
Here are SCOTUS precedents that targeting ‘hate speech’ would violate | CNN
Eugene Volokh, a First Amendment expert and law professor at UCLA, said that Bondi’s statements appeared to “fuzz over” the careful lines the justices have long drawn around protected speech. “The Supreme Court,” Volokh predicted, “will have none of that.”
What will China’s green-tech cost the world? | The New York Times Magazine
Alex Wang, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of a forthcoming book, “Chinese Global Environmentalism,” notes how China’s green-energy statecraft balances global concerns and nationalistic self-interest. “China was able to find a dynamic that dovetails well with the Paris Agreement,” Wang says, “but is also very effective in achieving all of these other national security goals.”
Is it OK to pull kids out of school for travel? | Parents
But the why behind a family’s decision to travel when school is in session is important in weighing the pros and cons, says Dr. Robin Berman, an associate professor of psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. “If it makes sense for your family because of budgetary reasons, or just timing, or a complicated schedule, I think it’s about trying to figure out how to make that time as pedagogically sound, as educational as possible.”
The students displaced by Helene who are still struggling | Associated Press
After natural disasters, it’s common to see a surge in students living in unstable, temporary arrangements, such as sleeping on a couch, staying in a shelter, or doubling up with another family, according to research from UCLA’s Center for the Transformation of Schools. Those arrangements qualify students as homeless under federal law.
Ozempic, Wegovy less effective for emotional eating issues | Healthline
“Everyone is different,” added Dr. Zhaoping Li, a professor of clinical medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. “We need to learn who a patient is and what their reason is for overeating.”
