A New York Times blog reports today, and a Los Angeles Times blog, a Chicago Tribune blog, Reuters, Variety and Politico reported Monday, that UCLA distinguished professor of architecture and urban design Thom Mayne was among 25 individuals appointed by President Obama Monday to the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities.

 

The Associated Press reported Monday on a study by Gary Gates, senior research fellow at the UCLA School of Law's Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy, that compared U.S. demographic data on same-sex couples who identify as married, gay couples who say they are unmarried and married heterosexual couples. Gates was quoted.

 

An article in today’s Los Angeles Times about shortages of the H1N1 vaccine in California cites hospitals and health care workers in the UCLA Health System. Janet Li-Tall, an occupational nurse at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, and William Dunne, director of the UCLA Office of Emergency Preparedness, are quoted.

 

HealthDay News reported Monday on research by Leah Ellenberg, UCLA associate clinical professor (voluntary) of psychiatry, showing that individuals who have survived childhood brain cancer tend to experience ongoing cognitive problems and have lower levels of education, employment and income than their siblings and survivors of other cancers.

Variety and the Hollywood Reporter report today that UCLA students received four of the top five prizes in the 54th annual Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards competition. The winners of the competition, which is open to all University of California students, were announced Monday on the UCLA campus. 

 

Darnell Hunt, professor of sociology and director of UCLA's Bunche Center for African American Studies, was interviewed about Leimert Park and other predominately African American neighborhoods in Los Angeles for Monday’s broadcast of the public television travel series “Globe Trekker.”

Asian News International reports today that researchers from UCLA and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Institute have found new evidence that supernovae and stellar “winds” from massive stars are the likely sources behind cosmic rays. Researcher Rene Ong, UCLA professor of physics and astrophysics was quoted.

 

 

London, UCLA professor of psychiatry and of molecular and medical pharmacology, is quoted today in a Washington Post article about growing heroin use among young people in a suburban Virginia town.

Small, professor of psychiatry at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA and director of the UCLA Center on Aging, is quoted today in a CNN.com article about the effect digital technologies that allow individuals to increasingly document their daily lives may have on human memory.

 

Volokh, Gary T. Schwartz Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law, was quoted Friday in a National Journal magazine article about a UN Human Rights Council resolution that some say infringes on First Amendment rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.