The Los Angeles Times and Associated Press reported Saturday that U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) had requested information from UCLA about liver transplants performed on Japanese nationals with ties to organized crime at UCLA Medical Center between 2000 and 2004.

 

The Spanish-language newspaper Hoy reported Friday on the Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra’s performance of “América Tropical” by UCLA ethnomusicology professor Steven Loza at Walt Disney Concert Hall. The piece was accompanied by a narrative, multimedia display created by UCLA theater professor Jose Luis Valenzuela and Judy Baca, a professor in the UCLA César E. Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies and co-founder of UCLA’s Social and Public Art Resource Center. Loza was quoted.

 

The Telegraph (U.K.) reported Friday on a study by researchers at UCLA and England’s University of Cambridge showing that serotonin levels can affect the way in which individuals perceive fair and unfair treatment. The UCLA researchers were Golnaz Tabibnia, a postdoctoral fellow at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, and UCLA associate professor of psychology Matthew Lieberman.

 

Sunday’s Los Angeles Times profiled Cristoph Bull, UCLA’s university organist and an adjunct associate professor of music, who recently performed at Royce Hall as part of UCLA Live’s Organ Series. Bull, UCLA Music Department chair Roger Bourland and UCLA Live director David Sefton were quoted.

 

Saturday’s New York Times featured an op-ed piece by Jonathan Kuntz, UCLA visiting associate professor of film and television, calling on major Hollywood studios to increase their efforts to preserve historic films following the destruction of several classic films prints in the recent fire at Universal Studios.

 

Saturday’s San Diego Union-Tribune reported on research by Richard Ambrose, professor and director of the Environmental Science and Engineering program at the UCLA School of Public Health, whose study of a power station’s effect on local marine life helped initiate the construction of an artificial reef off the coast of San Clemente.

 

The San Diego-Union Tribune reported Saturday that Andrew Viterbi, co-founder of Qualcomm and a former UCLA engineering professor, has established an endowment to fund a program in Mediterranean Jewish studies through UCLA’s Center for Jewish Studies.

 

A study by the UCLA School of Law's Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy that examined the potential impact of legalized same-sex marriage on the California economy was cited today in USA Today, Sunday in the Washington Post and Thursday in the Los Angeles Times. Brad 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 in USA Today and the L.A. Times. An article in today’s USA Today about out-of-state couples who plan to marry in California also cites the study.

 

The Associated Press reported Saturday that the former director of UCLA's Willed Body Program, on trial for illegally selling cadavers donated to UCLA for medical research between 1999 and 2004, was jailed after a judge raised his bail on Friday.

 

A Guardian (U.K.) feature Friday about African American filmmakers in Los Angeles profiled Charles Burnett, whose critically acclaimed film "Killer of Sheep," made when he was a UCLA film student, was recently restored by Ross Lipman, a preservationist with the UCLA Film & Television Archive.

 

A Daily Variety article on Friday highlighted research by Jerry Nickelsburg, an economist with the UCLA Anderson Forecast, on the economic impact of the recent Writers Guild of America strike, which began in November 2007 and ended in February 2008. Nickelsburg was quoted.

 

 

Allen, a retired UCLA professor of English and American Indian studies and one of the foremost voices in Native American literature, died May 29. See Saturday’s Los Angeles Times and United Press International and Friday’s Indian Country Today.

 

 

Baum, UCLA professor of political science, was quoted Saturday in a Los Angeles Times article about local annual commemorations of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.

 

Cole, UCLA professor-in-residence of neurology and associate director of the UCLA Alzheimer Disease Research Center, was quoted Friday in a Copely News Service article about research suggesting that factors causing diabetes may also trigger Alzheimer’s disease.

 

Grossman, UCLA assistant clinical professor of internal medicine and rheumatology, was quoted Sunday in a HealthDay News article about a study showing that a drug used to treat a form of blood cancer may be effective in treating the autoimmune disease lupus.

 

Heber, director of the UCLA Center for Human Nutrition, is quoted today in a Los Angeles Times article exploring the factors that push individuals to lose weight.

 

Kleiman, UCLA professor of public policy, was quoted Sunday in a Honolulu Advertiser article about a probation program for lawbreakers in Hawaii.

 

Leamer, Chauncey J. Medberry Professor of Management at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and director of the UCLA Anderson Forecast, was quoted Saturday in a New York Times article about the impact of California’s long-term drought on housing and development.

 

Lu, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, was quoted June 1 in a HealthDay News article about pre-pregnancy counseling by physicians.

 

Marder, UCLA professor-in-residence of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences and chief of the Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, was quoted Sunday in a USA Today article about the public stigma surrounding schizophrenia.

 

Ohanian, UCLA professor of economics and vice chair of undergraduate studies for the economics department, was quoted Saturday in a Los Angeles Times article about rising unemployment and oil prices in the U.S.

 

Ratcliff, an economist with the UCLA Anderson Forecast, was quoted Friday in a San Jose Mercury News article about real estate agents and brokers seeking other work amid the current mortgage crisis.

 

Shu, a visiting assistant professor at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, was quoted Sunday in an Associated Press article about businesses offering free gas to attract customers.

 

Trimble, UCLA professor of geography, was quoted Saturday in the Madison Capital Times about an erosion-control project in Wisconsin.