UCLA in the News

Newsweek cited a new study by UCLA anthropology professor Molly Fox showing that pregnancy and breastfeeding are linked with stronger cognitive function in postmenopausal women. “If we can figure out, as a next step, why those reproductive patterns lead to better cognitive outcomes in old age, then we can work toward figuring out how to craft therapies,” Fox said. Fox was also quoted in KABC-TV and KTLA-TV. Read more about UCLA in today’s NBC News, LAist and other outlets.

The New York Times wrote: In a city with so many great museums, the one that most frequently surprises me is the Fowler, on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles, whose collection display is also dense with Yoruba woodcarvings, Alaskan headdresses and Haitian ceramics. It began as a modest basement display of “ethnic arts and technology,” but successive donations, above all a copious gift in the 1960s of African and Oceanic objects amassed by the pharmaceutical baron Henry Wellcome, have made it one of America’s foremost institutions of non-Western culture. Read more about UCLA in today’s KCBS-TV, LAist’s “AirTalk” and other outlets.

PBS News Hour interviewed election law expert Rick Hasen, who cautioned that recent federal actions targeting local election offices could pose serious risks to the integrity of future U.S. elections. Hasen, who is also the founding director of the Safeguarding Democracy Project at the UCLA School of Law, said an FBI raid on voting offices in Fulton County, Georgia — more than five years after the 2020 election — appears legally dubious and may be less about accountability than about perpetuating unfounded claims of election fraud. Read more about UCLA in today’s CNN, Time and other outlets.

The Los Angeles Times cited UCLA music industry expert Robert Fink in a discussion about the shifts streaming platforms have made in soundtrack production ahead of the 68th Grammy Awards. The article focuses on Netflix’s “KPop Demon Hunters,” which received five Grammy nominations for the film’s fictional K-pop group, “Huntr/x.” Fink, who is also the associate dean for academic affairs in the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, said over the last 10 years, the role of music supervisors working in streaming has become about more than just finding a song to match a scene. Read more about UCLA in today’s Reuters, Los Angeles Times’ ‘De Los’ and other outlets.

The Advocate cited a new study released by the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law and the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, highlighting the impact of the fires that burned through LGBTQ+ households and businesses. The findings reveal that LGBTQ+ survivors entered the disaster with greater vulnerabilities and less immediate support from community organizations, friends and family. Read more about UCLA in today’s Marketplace, Associated Press and other outlets.

CalMatters featured a column by UCLA’s David E. Hayes-Bautista discussing findings from a new report showing that the creation and growth of Latino-owned businesses have significantly fueled employment and economic prosperity for the United States. Hayes-Bautista, a distinguished professor of medicine and co-founder of the Latino GDP Project, and collaborators found that Latino GDP, or gross domestic product, contributed to boosting California’s economy and helped it achieve its ranking as the fourth-largest in the world. Read more about UCLA in today’s USA Today, The Hill and other outlets.

The New York Times cited UCLA’s Jaimie Krems in an article bringing scientific clarity to something most people struggle with but rarely study: friendship. Krems, director of the UCLA Center for Friendship Research, explains that friendships don’t just happen — they must be actively built, maintained and protected. Her work shows why friendship is essential to well-being, how adults can navigate closeness and conflict, and why emotions like jealousy can actually help preserve valued bonds. Read more about UCLA in today’s Associated Press, KFF Health News and other outlets.

ABC News cited a new study by UCLA researchers using artificial intelligence to detect early signs of Alzheimer’s disease solely from an individual’s medical history. By using an algorithm that examines patient medical records for prior diagnoses, age and neurological indicators, the UCLA team was able to detect up to 80% of people who would have otherwise slipped through the cracks — an accuracy that’s more than double that of other detection models. Read more about UCLA in today’s New York Times, ABC News and other outlets.

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