Dr. Gary Small, UCLA's Parlow–Solomon Professor on Aging and a professor of psychiatry at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, was interviewed Monday on ABC’s “World News Tonight” about brain function during middle age and how to keep our cognitive skills sharp as we get older.

Today's Los Angeles Business Journal features an op-ed by Daniel J.B. Mitchell, professor emeritus at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and distinguished professor of public policy at UCLA's Luskin School of Public Affairs, arguing that the decision by California Gov. Jerry Brown and the state Legislature to dissolve local redevelopment agencies runs counter to the governor's stated goal of enhancing local decision-making.

 

UCLA Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Scott Waugh was interviewed Monday on KCRW-89.9 FM's “Which Way L.A.?” about the planned sale of the UCLA Hannah Carter Japanese Garden in Bel-Air. The garden was also referenced today by the Westwood–Century City Patch and Monday by KPCC-89.3 FM, Curbed LA and a Los Angeles Times blog.

 

Monday’s Los Angeles Daily News featured a column by Claire Panosian Dunavan, clinical professor of infectious diseases at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, about food poisoning.

 

The New York Times featured blog articles today and Monday highlighting the work of Dr. Richard Jackson, professor and chair of environmental health sciences at the UCLA School of Public Health, whose research focuses on the links between public health and the design of cities. Jackson is quoted in the coverage.

 

UCLA is referenced today in a Chronicle of Higher Education article about the growth of university endowments in fiscal year 2010–11. Steve Gamer, UCLA associate vice chancellor for development and executive director of The UCLA Foundation, is quoted in a related Chronicle article about university investments in private equity funds.

 

Lynn Vavreck, UCLA associate professor of political science, was interviewed Sunday on KTTV-Channel 11 about the upcoming Florida presidential primary.

 

An article in Monday's New York Times about animals that use natural toxic chemicals for self-defense cited research by Jessica Lynch Alfaro, associate director of the UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics, on the ways in which Capuchin monkeys use chemicals gleaned from food and insects to ward off parasites and predators. Alfaro was quoted.

 

The New York Times reported Monday on Joey Paulk, a soldier aided by UCLA's Operation Mend, a partnership between Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Brooke Army Medical Center and the Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System that offers free reconstructive surgery for military personnel severely wounded and disfigured during service. Ronald Katz, founder of Operation Mend and a UCLA hospital board member, and Dr. Timothy Miller, chief of plastic surgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and executive director of Operation Mend, were quoted.

 

KTLA-Channel 5 reported Jan. 20 on a Camaro convertible donated by General Motors and custom designed by West Coast Customs that raised $366,000 at auction to benefit UCLA’s Operation Mend, which provides free reconstructive surgery to military personnel severely wounded and disfigured during service. Melanie Gideon, Operation Mend's program manager, was interviewed.

 

 

Butler, professor and chief of the division of endocrinology, diabetes and hypertension at the Geffen School of Medicine and director of the Larry L. Hillblom Islet Research Center at UCLA, is quoted today in a Reuters article about research linking the diabetes drug metformin to fewer cases of pancreatic cancer in women.

Fonarow, UCLA's Eliot Corday Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Science and director of the Ahmanson–UCLA Cardiomyopathy Center, was quoted Monday in a HealthDay News article about research suggesting that cholesterol-lowering statin drugs reduce the risk of heart attack equally in men and women.