Agence France-Presse and KNBC-Channel 4 reported Sunday, and the Montreal Gazette reports today, on the upcoming 40th anniversary of the birth of the Internet at UCLA, highlighting the pivotal role played by Leonard Kleinrock, UCLA distinguished professor of computer science, and his colleagues, who sent the first host-to-host message over the network on Oct. 29, 1969. Saturday’s Los Angeles Times featured a Q&A with Kleinrock.

 

A Sunday Los Angeles Times article on the ways in which colleges and universities handle student mental health issues highlighted the Oct. 8 incident at UCLA in which a student allegedly stabbed a classmate during a chemistry teaching lab. Stephen Frank, UCLA associate professor of history, and Elizabeth Gong-Guy, director of UCLA’s Student Psychological Services, were quoted.

Anthony Butch, director of the UCLA Olympic Analytical Laboratory, was featured Saturday in an ESPN “Outside the Lines” broadcast segment about NASCAR driver Jeremy Mayfield, who has disputed his positive drug test for methamphetamine. Butch was also referenced Sunday in a Stock Car Spin article about Mayfield and was quoted Friday in Yahoo! Sports and FOX Bleacher Report articles.

Anne Coscarelli, director of the Simms-Mann/UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, was featured Thursday in a KCET “SoCal Connected” segment about the tools people use to cope with a diagnosis of cancer, including humor.

An article in Saturday’s Oregonian about the television sitcom "The Big Bang Theory" highlighted UCLA physics and astronomy professor David Saltzberg's role as a scientific consultant for the show, which revolves around two physicists who lack social skills. Saltzberg was quoted.

The Los Angeles Times reported Sunday on "Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art" and two other new exhibitions at the Fowler Museum at UCLA that explore various aspects of African American and African basketry arts and their historic connections.

Altman, professor of medicine in the division of rheumatology and arthritis at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, is quoted today in an Associated Press article about “bioidenticals,” which some claim can help regulate hormone levels.

Bainbridge, UCLA professor of law, was quoted Saturday in a Wall Street Journal article about insider-trading laws.

 

Cagnon, assistant clinical professor of radiology and assistant professor of biomedical physics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, was quoted Saturday in a Los Angeles Times article about patients who accidentally received overdoses of radiation during CT brain scans at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

Farmer, UCLA professor of economics, was quoted Sunday in an Agence France-Presse article about the U.S. economy and whether the recession has ended.

Goldberg, professor of law and faculty chair of the UCLA Native Nations Law and Policy Center, was quoted Saturday in a Los Angeles Times article about the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians opening its own tribal court.

Habibi, a lecturer in real estate at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, was quoted Friday in a Glendale News Press article about office vacancy rates in Southern California. He was also quoted Friday in a Burbank Leader article about Southern California home foreclosures.

Ohanian, professor of economics and vice chair of undergraduate studies for the UCLA Department of Economics, was quoted Sunday in a San Francisco Chronicle article about job losses and economic recovery.

Robertson, head of special projects at the Gonda Diabetes Center at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, is quoted today in a Los Angeles Times column outlining ways individuals with diabetes can save on medication and care.

Vilain, professor of human genetics, pediatrics and urology and chief of medical genetics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, was quoted Sunday in a New York Times article about the development of sports guidelines for determining if competitors are male or female.

 

Volokh, Gary T. Schwartz Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law, was quoted Sunday in a Los Angeles Times article about whether signing a petition is a public or private act.