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3 days, 3 LAPD shootings: Chief grilled after officers open fire | L.A. Times
The LAPD sits at a “pivotal” crossroads, according to Jorja Leap, a professor at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. The federal consent decree that followed the Rampart gang scandal of the late 1990s pushed the LAPD into becoming a more transparent and accountable agency, whose leaders accepted community buy-in as essential to their mission, said Leap.
The world’s greatest mathematician avoided politics. Then Trump cut science funding. | Washington Post
Terence Tao is often called the “Mozart of Math.” A child prodigy born in Australia, Tao, 50, is now at the top of his field at the University of California at Los Angeles, working in the rarefied realms of partial differential equations or harmonic analysis on problems so hard it may take a PhD to understand them. But for the past few weeks, he’s been preoccupied with more run-of-the-mill pecuniary concerns: fundraising. (Tao was interviewed.)
UCLA ranked No. 1 in college dining | KCAL-TV
If you want to know where to find the best college food in the U.S., just head to Westwood. For the seventh year in a row, UCLA has been named number one for campus dining by Niche.com. (UCLA’s Chef Joey Martin was interviewed.)
The 12 symptoms cancer doctors would never ignore | Women’s Health
It can be tricky to tell if something is serious, but this list can help you know what not to just blow off. Especially if symptoms last longer than two weeks, oncologists would rather have you see a doc and err on the side of caution. “We don't take any chances, and we investigate thoroughly to make sure that we're taking the best care of people possible,” says Dr. Marla Lipsyc-Sharf, an oncologist at UCLA Health.
Why ending the de minimus tariff exemption is causing shipping chaos | NPR
A couple of economists tried to quantify exactly how much money households save by buying things online through de minimis shippers like those online stores. Pablo Fajgelbaum at UCLA is one of them. He says he found a strong connection between buying de minimis goods and how wealthy your neighborhood is.
Recent advances mark ‘very exciting time’ in dementia research | L.A. Times
“This happens to be a very exciting time,” said Dr. David Reuben, director of the UCLA Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care program. “I just gave a talk on the state of dementia in 2025, and most of what we’re talking about, 10 years ago would have been fiction.”
UCLA among world’s top costume design schools | The Hollywood Reporter
You’d be hard-pressed to find a costume design program with more industry access. With innovative classes, deep ties to Hollywood and regular visits from top working designers, the School of Theater, Film, and TV gives students a real-world head start. The Westwood campus — a few minutes from studios and production houses — offers opportunities you won’t find in most college towns. Led by Deborah Nadoolman Landis, the program balances technical discipline with creative risk.
How microbes control your sleep | BBC
“The predominant theory for a long time has been that having sleep disorders is disruptive to our microbiomes,” says Jennifer Martin, a University of California Los Angeles professor and board member of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. “But some of the evidence we're seeing now indicates that it's probably a relationship that goes in both directions.”
Looking at the L.A. Times’ plan | Los Angeles Business Journal
“(Soon-Shiong) may not be willing to bring in a really large investor, somebody else who’s also a wealthy individual, or maybe a large institution, because that sort of sophisticated investor may want to have some say in running the L.A. Times,” said [UCLA’s James] Park. “Most people will just buy a few shares, (and) they’re not going to buy enough shares so that they have enough votes to really influence how the L.A. Times is run.”
Anti-LGBTQ+ laws reshape U.S. tourism | Edge Media Network
A May 2025 study by the Williams Institute at UCLA found that 30% of transgender respondents reported traveling less frequently since the 2024 U.S. election, and 70% said they were less likely to vacation in states perceived as less trans-affirming. The study further reveals that nearly one in six respondents had canceled or considered canceling travel plans to states they viewed as hostile to transgender rights.
Cloud formations do not portend quakes: experts | Agence France-Presse
Meng Lingsen, a geophysics professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, also dismissed the idea that cloud formations are indicative of future earthquakes. “Earthquakes are driven by processes deep within the Earth, not by phenomena in the atmosphere, so surface observations of clouds are not a dependable indicator of earthquake occurrence,” Meng told AFP via an email on September 3.
Amy Coney Barrett makes bold claim about the Supreme Court | Daily Beast
“Being in a constitutional crisis would be better than where we are right now,” UCLA School of Law professor Blake Emerson wrote on Bluesky. “It would mean there was actually meaningful constitutional resistance to Trump (from, say, the court Justice Barrett sits on). Instead, we’re just in an increasingly tight authoritarian grip with the other branches supine.”
