The Los Angeles Times reports today on UCLA Medical Center’s upcoming move to its new campus facility. Dr. David Feinberg, chief executive officer and interim vice chancellor of the UCLA Hospital System; Johanna Bruner, director of cardiology and emergency services at UCLA Medical Center; and Dr. James Atkinson, professor and chief of pediatric surgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA are quoted.

 

The Spanish-language news service EFE reported Monday on the UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology’s summer field program, during which undergraduates participate in international archaeological digs and blog about their experiences. Ran Boytner, director of international research at the Cotsen Institute, and Thomas Wake, director of the institute's zooarchaeology laboratory, were quoted. The article also appeared on the Yahoo, Telemundo and MSN Latino websites.

 

A study by Dr. Alcino Silva, professor of neurobiology and a member of the UCLA Brain Research Institute, and Dan Ehninger, a UCLA postgraduate researcher in neurobiology, that found that learning disorders resulting from a genetic mutation that causes autism can be reversed in mice using an FDA-approved drug was featured today by United Press International, Tuesday by the Telegraph (U.K.) and Monday by the Los Angeles Daily News. City News Service,Asian News International, the Indo-Asian News Service, and the website of KTLA-Channel 5 reported the story over the weekend. Silva and Ehninger were quoted in the coverage.

 

A UCLA brain cancer vaccine program led by Dr. Linda Liau, professor of neurosurgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and a researcher at UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center, was featured Monday on KTLA-Channel 5’s “Prime News.” Liau and a program participant were interviewed.

 

Tuesday’s International Herald Tribune featured a column by Saree Makdisi, UCLA professor of English and comparative literature, about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

 

United Press International reported Tuesday on 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.

 

Dr. Judith Gasson, professor of medicine and biological chemistry and director of UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center, was interviewed Monday about current cancer research on KNX-1070 AM’s “Business Hour with Frank Mottek.”

 

 

Baum, UCLA professor of political science, is quoted today in an Agence France-Presse article about the visit of a historical Japanese warship to a port in China.

 

Budoff, associate clinical professor of cardiology at Harbor–UCLA Medical Center, was cited today in a Denver Post article about heart health and the recent death of television journalist Tim Russert.

 

Keller, professor of political science and director of UCLA’s Globalization Research Center–Africa, is quoted today in a Reuters article about Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and the current political situation in that country.

 

Longstaff, Allstate Professor of Insurance and Finance at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, is quoted today in a Los Angeles Times column about the high cost of fuel and speculation in the oil market.

 

Riedl, assistant professor of immunology and allergy at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, was quoted Tuesday in a HealthDay News article about a new study that suggests that exposure to cats may cause eczema in some infants.

 

Rundel, UCLA professor of ecology and environmental biology, is quoted today in a Los Angeles Times article about how climate change is affecting wild plants in California.

 

Vavreck, UCLA assistant professor of political science, was quoted today in the Long Beach Press-Telegram and Tuesday in a KNBC-Channel 4 online article about presidential candidate Barack Obama’s recent fundraising efforts in Los Angeles.