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The L.A. architects who design buildings that make you say, ‘Huh?,’ then “Wow!” | Los Angeles Times
Johnston Marklee’s most recent project, UCLA’s Margo Leavin Graduate Art Studios in Culver City’s industrial Hayden Tract, opened to incoming students last month. The project, a renovation and expansion (which took the square footage from 21,200 to 48,000), transformed a frayed old wallpaper factory into a state-of-the-art studio facility. In typical Johnston Marklee style, it was done with grace: The building retains its low-slung, light-industrial proportions, in keeping with the neighborhood. But a new facade of pillowed concrete, along with arched skylights in the workshop areas, add touches of refinement to what is essentially a space to make artistic messes. “It fits into this post-industrial landscape in a really interesting way,” says Brett Steele, dean of UCLA’s School of the Arts and Architecture.
Most Republicans and Democrats agree: Immigrants make the U.S. a better place to live | Los Angeles Times
Raúl Hinojosa-Ojeda, an expert in immigration at UCLA, said he has watched the generational divide unfold in his classroom. In the 25 years that he’s taught at the university, he said, he’s noticed a marked shift in the “radical acceptance of immigrants.” “When I started teaching there, it was the time of Prop 187. That was those boomers voting,” he said, referring to the controversial 1994 ballot measure denying public services, such as public education and healthcare, to people in the country illegally. “We just had a class where we’re reading the argument that the Republican politicians made about Prop 187 and the young students were shocked, across the spectrum of race and class.”
Researchers invent device that generates light from the cold night sky; what it means for millions living off grid | The Conversation
Technology to store excess solar power during the dark hours is improving. But what if we could generate electricity from the cold night sky? Researchers at Stanford and UCLA have just done exactly that. Don’t expect it to become solar’s dark twin just yet, but it could play an important role in the energy demands of the future.
Black-white achievement gaps go hand in hand with discipline disparities | Education Week
For example, a series of studies by the Center for Civil Rights Remedies at the University of California, Los Angeles, found that for every 100 black students enrolled, more than a month of school was collectively missed due to suspensions. And a Miami University meta-analysis found students who are suspended out of school are at higher risk of not only lower academic performance, but also disengagement and eventually dropping out of school.
What are the benefits of turmeric? | New York Times
Dr. Gary W. Small, a professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, who studies curcumin’s effect on memory, sees a lot of therapeutic potential. He also states that existing research demonstrates curcumin’s biological effects.
Heron survey fishes out detail in ghostly galaxy outskirts | Science Daily
Astronomers have completed the largest survey to date of the faint outskirts of nearby galaxies, successfully testing a low-cost system for exploring these local stellar systems. R. Michael Rich of the University of California, Los Angeles led an international team carrying out a survey for the Haloes and Environments of Nearby Galaxies (HERON) collaboration…. “We were surprised at how powerful a telescope of such modest size could be,” said Rich. “There will be many interesting fish to catch in this particular bay of the cosmic ocean, offering a potential lifetime of studies with very large telescopes,” he added.
High court must define meaning of silence in debt collection case | Bloomberg
Some legal scholars say that silence simply means that Congress “legislates against a background” in which all fraud-based claims should be governed by the discovery rule, according to an impartial amicus brief filed by Stuart Banner, a professor at the UCLA School of Law. “Statutes that neither expressly include nor expressly preclude a discovery rule are best read to include a discovery rule in cases of fraud,” the brief, which Bray and two other professors signed on to, said.
How L.A. courts force thousands to do unpaid labor | Guardian
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) researchers analyzing court-mandated community service also found that government departments and not-for-profit organizations rely on workers threatened with debts and jail time to complete labor that would otherwise be paid — and that those impacted are overwhelmingly people of color.
How ‘emergency reserves’ can help you stick to your goals | BBC
Hengchen Dai of the UCLA Anderson School of Management has studied this effect extensively. Her research shows that landmarks create new mental “accounting periods” allowing us to move on from previous imperfections: “Last week was a write-off, but I have a clean slate now.” The arrival of a new year, month or week also allows us to think of the big picture, which helps with motivation for aspirational behaviors.
‘Social’ smoking does almost as much damage to your lungs as ‘heavy’ smoking | Healthline
“There’s a reason why nicotine is used in insecticides. It’s a poison,” Russell Buhr, MD, PhD, a pulmonary and critical care physician at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, told Healthline. “It can cause damage to the cells inside the lungs, in particular the ones that help clear out mucus from the linings. That mucus not being cleared out properly can cause damage to the air tubes inside the lungs just from direct contact, and it also provides a nice home for bacteria and infections to move in,” he said.
The impossible fight to save Jakarta, the sinking megacity | Wired
“There is not sufficient water delivery, so people are pumping out too much groundwater, and because of the rapid urbanization over the last 30 years, the amount of permeable surface in the city has decreased to a point where you don’t have enough recharge in the groundwater,” says Kian Goh, assistant professor of urban planning at the University of California, Los Angeles, who has studied Jakarta in depth.
Colleges spend millions to host presidential debates. What do they get in return? | Chronicle of Higher Education
The first college to host a presidential debate, in 1976, was the College of William & Mary — which counts four U.S. presidents among its alumni.… Twelve years later, the University of California at Los Angeles and Wake Forest University followed, jump-starting colleges’ longtime reign as the go-to sites for general-election debates.
This is the best college in every state | Money
The majority of college students attend public institutions not far from their home. In fact, more than half of freshmen at four-year colleges go to a school within 100 miles of where they went to high school, according to an annual survey of freshmen from the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California-Los Angeles.
Origins of Monte | Medium
As the U.S. space program kicked into high gear in the 1960s, the relatively new field of astrodynamics, which studies the motion of man-made objects in space, was itself rapidly maturing to support these early exploration efforts. Samuel Herrick, a professor at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and the father of astrodynamics, graduated a number of PhD students that would eventually join JPL and work on the DPTRAJ/ODP.
Top 20 U.S. colleges with the highest proportions of female millionaires among alumni | Business Insider
In July, Wealth-X released their findings on which US colleges have produced the most millionaires. The study focused on those alumni deemed to be ultra-high net worth (UHNW) individuals, meaning those with fortunes of $30 million or more…. UCLA has 1,945 UHNW alumni, with women making up 8% of their UHNW population.
Black students in Los Angeles are disproportionately disadvantaged | KPCC-FM
“These are needs and issues that schools can’t address on their own, and we need to do more to provide the support to those children and the communities where they live if we are going to intervene more effectively,” said UCLA’s Pedro Noguera.
The surprising power of cleaning your room | Medium
What’s more, your stress level can increase depending on the tidiness of your surroundings. With each item taking away some part of your attention, to keep track of everything around it your brain enters a heightened state of alertness. This was found by UCLA, who discovered that the stress level of mothers increased when they went into untidy rooms.
Kate Braverman, whose poetry and prose captured a dark Los Angeles, dies in Santa Fe, N.M. | Los Angeles Times
Braverman received her bachelor’s from UC Berkeley and her master’s in English from Sonoma State University. She was a member of the Venice Poetry Workshop and served on the UCLA Writer’s Program faculty.
