The Los Angeles Times reports today on UCLA men’s basketball coach Ben Howland’s new seven-year contract. The Associated Press, the Orange County Register, the Daily Breeze, KCBS-Channel 2 and other media outlets covered the story Tuesday.

 

The Chronicle of Higher Education reported Tuesday on the UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology’s summer field program, in which undergraduates participate in international digs and blog about their experiences. Ran Boytner, the institute’s director of international research, was quoted.

 

An article in today’s Los Angeles Times about kids and online communities highlights research by Yasmin Kafai, UCLA associate professor of education, and Deborah Fields, a doctoral student at the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, on how children cheat and steal from each other in virtual worlds. Fields is quoted.

 

Tuesday’s Denver Post online features a column by Daniel Blumstein, UCLA associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, about the ways in which human interference with animals in wilderness settings can upset the natural predator-prey balance.

 

An article in today’s Toronto Star about recent research on multi-tasking highlights a study by Russell Poldrack, UCLA associate professor of psychology, that found that multi-tasking adversely affects individuals’ ability to learn. Poldrack is quoted.

 

 

Babey, a project director at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, was quoted Tuesday in a Riverside Press-Enterprise article about Riverside County’s efforts to curb childhood obesity through programs that educate families about nutrition and healthy lifestyles.

 

Butch, professor of pathology and laboratory medicine and director of the UCLA Olympic Analytical Laboratory, was quoted Sunday in Oregon’s Register-Guard about the latest tools for detecting the use of performance-enhancing drugs by athletes.

 

Grob, professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences and director of the division of child and adolescent psychiatry at Harbor–UCLA Medical Center, was quoted Tuesday in an Associated Press story about research suggesting that the hallucinogenic drug psilocybin may have beneficial psychological and spiritual effects for users.

 

Juvonen, UCLA professor of psychology, is quoted today in a New Jersey Star-Ledger article about plans to restructure a New Jersey school district to mitigate overcrowding.

 

Leamer, Chauncey J. Medberry Professor of Management at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and director of the UCLA Anderson Forecast, is quoted today in a Los Angeles Times article about the recent decline in U.S. auto sales.

 

Lieberman, UCLA clinical professor of psychology, is quoted today in an ABC News story about body image messages conveyed by ultra-thin female film stars.

 

Slamon, director of clinical and translational research at UCLA's Jonsson ComprehensiveCancer Center and executive vice chair for research at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, was quoted Tuesday in an NBC News column about research on new breast cancer treatments.