La Opinión reported Thursday on the visit of 41 foreign ambassadors to the new Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center on Monday as part of a tour for diplomats organized by the Office of the U.S. Chief of Protocol. The medical center will officially open June 29.

 

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 in humans can be reversed in mice was reported Wednesday by ScientificAmerican.com. Silva was quoted.

 

 

Goldschmidt, a research analyst with the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards and Student Testing at UCLA, was quoted today in a Christian Science Monitor article about a recently released study showing that American schoolchildren are improving in reading and math.