UCLA staff and faculty members are quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent selection.
“This approach is potentially a new way to treat cancer.” — Yi Tang, professor of chemical and biomedical engineering at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, in a Feb. 7 Indo-Asian News Service report about a degradable nano-scale shell that can carry a therapeutic cargo to cancer cells, stunting the growth of tumors without damaging healthy cells.
"It is the most important Chinese holiday. It's like Christmas and Thanksgiving."
— David Schaberg, dean of the UCLA Division of Humanities and a professor of Asian languages and cultures, was quoted Friday in a USA Today article about the celebration of the lunar new year among the Chinese and other Asian groups in the United States.
"Our relationship to [nature] is often standing before it, taking out an iPhone, clicking it and then automatically putting it on our Facebook page to show everybody that we've been there. I'm asking people to go back to the sublime and to a place of beauty."— Catherine Opie, UCLA professor of art, featured in a Jan. 27 Los Angeles Times profile highlighting her new series of photographic portraits and landscapes.
“The trend in education makes California’s growth engine vulnerable.” — Jerry Nickelsburg, a senior economist with the UCLA Anderson Forecast, in a Ventura County Star article Feb. 5 highlighting a report he delivered to a California Assembly panel warning that economic growth in California will slow this year and that the number of college-educated workers in the state is beginning to decline.
“One would expect that from any 5-year-old but for him more so than any other child.”— Tanya Paparella, associate clinical professor at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA and director of UCLA's Early Childhood Partial Hospitalization Program, in a Feb. 6 Time magazine article about the psychological recovery of a young boy who was recently kidnapped and then freed in Alabama.
“It’s scary when they’re hurt or sick, so we’re trying to change the environment and the way we practice medicine so that we can make it as comfortable and friendly of an experience as possible.”
— Dr. Lisa Dabby, a UCLA emergency room physician, interviewed in a Jan. 31 KABC-Channel 7 reported on how staff at the UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica, are working to make ER visits more comfortable for children by providing them with kid-friendly information about procedures and implementing less-painful treatments.
