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New Mexican president to be inaugurated this week | KNBC-TV

“This is a really historic moment for Mexico. You said in your introduction: the first woman president, she’s of Jewish background, she’s a scientist,” said UCLA’s Gaspar Rivera-Salgado.

Awareness of ‘Latinx,’ ‘Latine’ increases among Latinos | Associated Press

And with opinions mixed, about “Latinx,” a new term has emerged: “Latine” (pronounce LA TEE NEH). That term has gained popularity among people from Latin American countries and Spanish speakers who have pushed for the term to be used instead of “Latinx,” because in Spanish “e” can be used to better note gender neutrality, said Josh Guzmán, an associate professor of gender studies at the University of California at Los Angeles. 

Celebrating the contributions of Hispanic physicians | CBS News

According to a UCLA study released last year, the Latine community makes up about 39% of California’s population. And physicians of that demographic only make up about 6%. 

How Jimmy Carter, almost 100, fought brain cancer for 9 years | USA Today

Dr. Antoni Ribas, a melanoma specialist who directs the Tumor Immunology Program at the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, Los Angeles, said he has given checkpoint inhibitors to patients as old as 96 or 97. Although older people have weakened immune systems, he said, the fact that the drugs can be effective at such advanced ages shows the immune system remains active throughout life. 

Hezbollah leader killed in airstrike | KNBC-TV

“You have leadership completely removed — eliminated — not just Nasrallah, but also the second tier below him, making it very difficult for Hezbollah to scramble and figure out what to do next,” said UCLA’s Benjamin Radd (approx. :35 mark). 

Facing a big test, Iran’s ‘axis of resistance’ flails | New York Times

And Israel’s military operations in Gaza, the West Bank and now Lebanon are likely only to fuel the anger that drives people to join these groups, said Dalia Dassa Kaye, a senior fellow at the University of California Los Angeles Burkle Center for International Relations. “There will be plenty to attract continued support and recruits for the resistance,” she said. 

Is ‘advanced recycling’ really the answer to plastic?  | Los Angeles Times

“The public perception of what’s recyclable with respect to plastic doesn’t match reality,” said Daniel Coffee, a UCLA researcher who studied plastic waste in Los Angeles County. “Recycling, for so long, was thought of as this perfectly crafted solution to single-use plastics. And the clearest answer as to why, is that the public was told so. They were told so, in large part, by an industry-backed misinformation campaign.” 

Did dark matter help black holes grow? | Space.com

“The formation of supermassive black holes is a mystery. Finding supermassive black holes at the time when the universe was less than 1 billion years old is like finding some mammal bones among the dinosaur bones in a Jurassic sedimentary rock,” research team member Alexander Kusenko, an astrophysicist at the University of California, Los Angeles, told Space.com. “These observations call for a very different explanation of the supermassive black hole formation.”  

Scientists just discovered why the atmosphere is leaking | Washington Post

“What’s most surprising is how small the field is while still being able to drive these global processes,” said Derek Schaeffer, a professor of plasma physics at University of California, Los Angeles, who was not involved in the study. 

COVID vaccine during pregnancy protects newborns | KFF News

Infants can’t get vaccinated against COVID until they are at least six months old. That leaves a “huge window” when infants are most vulnerable, said Dr. Neil Silverman, director of the Infectious Disease in Pregnancy program at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. 

Harris taps California donors to pad her money advantage | Bloomberg

“Hollywood and Silicon Valley are both big sources of interested political money, and those industries are not exclusively Democratic,” said Jim Newton, a lecturer in the public policy department of the University of California, Los Angeles. 

Gov. Newsom denies jobless aid to undocumented Californians  | CalMatters

Ahilan Arulanantham, a UCLA law professor and one of the architects of a novel theory arguing why the UC is allowed to legally hire undocumented students, said that he “couldn’t remember the last time I had seen a major Democrat with a national profile block some opportunity for undocumented youth.” 

When to recline and how to share armrests on planes | BBC News

The basic problem is how airlines cram seats onto planes, with passengers having less space than they did in the past, according to Jim Salzman of University of California, Los Angeles. “[The airlines] are able to pass on the anger and frustration of cramped seating to passengers who blame each other for bad behavior instead of the airlines who created the problem in the first place.”