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Leonardo DiCaprio, Don Cheadle praise the power of social impact entertainment | Los Angeles Times
Leonardo DiCaprio and Don Cheadle are among those who believe that, in Hollywood, it is possible to do well and do good. They are among the dozens who contributed to a new report on the intersection of entertainment and social change. Released Tuesday by the Skoll Center for Social Impact Entertainment at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and Participant Media, the report maps and explores the emerging field by analyzing its successes across film, television, theater and digital short form.
For years, no one visited downtown L.A. until an architectural jewel helped bring it back to life | Quartz
“Anyone living downtown seemed like refugees from real cities elsewhere,” said Dana Cuff, a professor of architecture at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the founding director of CityLAB, a thinjk tank focused on urban design…. “They were really nice buildings. But they didn’t add up to a city.… When a city can claim its local identity, which I think that area around Grand Avenue is starting to do, that’s an amazing achievement.”
As Nazi horrors fade into history, some youths are seduced by hate, others will never forget | Los Angeles Times
For people born after 2000, post-millennials, the Holocaust feels less real, as they’re less likely to hear from the ever-dwindling number of survivors and WWII veterans, said Edward Dunbar, a UCLA clinical professor who has researched hate crimes and violence for two decades. “These forms of atrocities are fading far into the distance for young non-adults, adolescents and teenagers, and it’s no closer than the Civil War would be for them,” Dunbar said.
Here’s why Arnold Schwarzenegger and Kevin de León are teaming up on climate change | Los Angeles Times
Schwarzenegger and De León are launching an initiative with environmental activists and researchers at USC and UCLA to study how local governments can speed the adoption of cleaner transportation options and to promote more aggressive action at the state level. Reducing dependence on oil for transportation, they say, would benefit the climate and reduce lung-damaging air pollution in disadvantaged communities.
Two patients with HIV are in remission. How many more will follow them? | Los Angeles Times
“It’s quite clear that the CCR5 receptor is absolutely a critical part of what HIV needs to enter cells,” said Dr. Otto Yang, an infectious disease specialist and HIV researcher at UCLA. Turning that knowledge into an HIV cure will take many, many more steps, he added.
U.S. consumers hit hardest by trade tariffs, studies find | Wall Street Journal
American consumers have been saddled with $69 billion in added costs because of the tariffs the U.S. imposed last year, including on $250 billion on Chinese imports as well as levies on steel and aluminum, according to a study released by a quartet of economists working on a National Science Foundation grant. “U.S. consumers bear the incidence of the U.S. tariffs,” said the authors, who include economists from UCLA, the University of California at Berkeley and Columbia University as well as Penny Goldberg, the chief economist of the World Bank.
Presidential candidate Julian Castro offers a blue vision of America to students at UCLA | Orange County Register
Presidential candidate Julian Castro, who served as U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary under President Barack Obama, told students at UCLA on Monday that America would be a better place if it had more affordable housing, comprehensive immigration reform, a higher minimum wage and universal health care… Professor Matt Barreto, who invited Castro to his class, said it would be wise for all candidates to court the youth vote, especially Latino youth. “They could be an important part of his support base,” Barreto said, noting that Obama focused on college campuses and reaching other youth through events and social media. Castro’s visit also “highlights the importance of California,” Barreto said, just one year before the state primary.
‘Most spectacular’ and rare lightning display electrifies Southern California | Washington Post
Daniel Swain, a professor of atmospheric science at the University of California at Los Angeles, tweeted that it was the “most spectacular winter lightning display in recent memory.”
How far will California go on charter schools? | CALmatters
John Rogers, professor of education at UCLA, said the 2018 election “sent a signal to Democratic legislators that there is a change afoot in the way the broader public, in particular Democratic voters are thinking about charters.” “I think that probably trumps a certain reckoning on the part of some legislators who haven’t wanted to step in because the Democratic legislators have felt like if they take action to try to rationalize this (charter school) system, they will get pushed back and pay some cost relative to the charter lobby.”
Study says 4.5 percent of U.S. adults identify as LGBT | Reuters
The Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law examined previously released results from the Gallup Daily Tracking survey and went deeper into the data, enabling a more detailed demographic picture of the adult U.S. LGBT population of roughly 11.3 million people… “Younger people are more likely to actually live as LGBT and to identify that way because they are growing up in a time when it’s more acceptable to acknowledge those feelings and to act on them,” said Kerith Conron, research director at the Williams Institute.
‘Sharing economy’ goes mainstream as IPOs loom | Agence France-Presse
A 2018 study by the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment found that most ride-hailing drivers worked full-time and supported their families from that income. The study also found 44% had difficulty paying for work or vehicles expenses, and that most wanted an organization to demand improvements in wages and working conditions.
Obesity may improve odds of stroke survival, study finds | KNBC-TV
A preliminary study by UCLA suggests that being a little — just a little — overweight, could increase your odds of surviving a stroke, at least for some patients. Researchers followed over 1,000 older stroke patients for three months. Those who were classified as being overweight, obese or severely obese actually had a lower risk of dying, compared to those at a normal weight.
Eminent mathematician V.S. Varadarajan, wife Veda give $1 million to UCLA | Economic Times
An India-born eminent mathematician and his wife have given $1 million to UCLA to establish a professorship honoring legendary Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. The new position aims to honor the genius Ramanujan, who made substantial contributions to mathematics in the early 1900s.
Trump promised to increase the trade deficit. Instead it exploded | Washington Post
It concluded that Americans paid the entire tariff bill. A second study by four economists from the University of California at Los Angeles, Yale University, the University of California at Berkeley and Columbia University reached the same conclusion.