The Los Angeles Times reported Saturday on a study conducted at UCLA’s Institute for Democracy, Education and Access that showed a decline in the number of students graduating from Los Angeles public high schools. Jeannie Oakes, institute director and UCLA Presidential Professor of Educational Equity, and John Rogers, institute co-director and UCLA assistant professor of education, were quoted.

 

Research led by UCLA assistant professor of psychiatry Mary-Frances O’Connor that found that certain types of chronic grief activate reward centers in the brain, possibly giving sorrowful memories addiction-like properties, was featured Sunday by Asian News International and Saturday by the Indo-Asian News Service. O’Connor was quoted in the coverage.

 

Saturday’s Los Angeles Times featured an op-ed piece by Jaana Juvonen, UCLA professor of psychology, outlining several potential steps that can be taken to help improve the educational environment and academic performance of Los Angeles County public middle schools.

 

UCLA research showing that the Chinese martial art tai chi chih helped older adults with moderate sleep problems sleep better was reported today by Forbes, Sunday by the Indo-Asian News Service and Friday by Asian News International. Lead study author Dr. Michael Irwin, the Norman Cousins Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and director of the UCLA Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, was quoted in the coverage.

 

Asian News International reported Friday on research led by David Glanzman, professor of physiological science and neurobiology and a member of UCLA’s Brain Research Institute, that examined long-term memory formation in the brain of the marine snail — research that may lead to treatments for memory disorders in humans. Glanzman was quoted.

 

Sunday’s Los Angeles Times featured an op-ed piece co-written by UCLA law professor Gary Blasi on homelessness in Los Angeles and various steps that can be taken to combat it.

 

The Los Angeles Times reports today on an art installation by UCLA art professor Barbara Kruger at the University of California, San Diego’s Stuart Collection. Kruger is quoted.

 

Today’s Los Angeles Times features a column by Susan Bowerman, assistant director of the UCLA Center for Human Nutrition, about certain high-carbohydrate foods that may contribute to colon health and help lower cholesterol.

 

The work of Dr. Linda Liau, professor of neurosurgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and a researcher at UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center, is highlighted today in a Los Angeles Times article about patients seeking care for rare medical conditions. Liau is quoted.

 

Today’s Los Angeles Times features a column by a woman whose uterine cancer was diagnosed early and successfully treated thanks to alert questions from her doctor, William Parker, a UCLA clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology and a staff gynecologist at Santa Monica–UCLA Medical Center.

 

An article in Friday’s Orange County Register about an increase in the unemployment rate in Orange County highlighted the UCLA Anderson Forecast’s recently released quarterly report on the California and national economies. Forecast economist Jerry Nickelsburg was cited.

 

 

Appleby, UCLA professor emerita of history, was quoted Sunday in a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review article about the creation of the G.I. Bill of Rights in 1944.

 

Gates, a senior fellow at the UCLA School of Law's Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy, was quoted Friday in a United Press International article on statistics showing that more women are participating in same-sex marriages than men.

 

Geschwind, the Gordon and Virginia MacDonald Professor of Human Genetics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and professor of neurology and psychiatry at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, is quoted today in a New York Sun article on left-handed politicians.

 

Hunt, professor of sociology and director of UCLA's Bunche Center for African American Studies, was quoted Sunday in a Los Angeles Times article about Hollywood films that feature African American presidents.

 

Leap, adjunct associate professor of social welfare at the UCLA School of Public Affairs, was quoted Saturday in a Los Angeles Times article about the arrest of two women who allegedly tortured the 5-year-old son of one of them.

 

Lieberman, UCLA clinical professor of psychology, was quoted Friday in an ABC News story about girls at a Massachusetts high school who made a pact to get pregnant. Lieberman was also quoted Sunday in a New York Post article about a new television show in which teen couples are given infants to look after.

 

Mayne, UCLA professor of architecture and urban design, was quoted Sunday in aNew York Times article about a debate in the architectural community over working in countries with repressive leaders or poor human rights records.

 

Patel, UCLA assistant clinical professor of medicine, is quoted today in a Los Angeles Times article about heart health and television journalist Tim Russert, who died of a heart attack last week at age 58.

 

Ratcliff, an economist with the UCLA Anderson Forecast, was quoted Saturday in the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle about the increase in California’s unemployment rate.

 

Sears, a lecturer at the UCLA School of Law and executive director of the school’s Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy, was quoted Thursday in a New Jersey Star-Ledger article about the potential revenue same-sex marriages could bring to the state of New Jersey.