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UCLA receives $20 million from W.M. Keck Foundation | KABC-TV
UCLA received a sizeable donation from one of the leading patrons of scientific and medical research. The W.M. Keck Foundation donated $20 million to fund competitive biomedical research grants and renovation at the UCLA Medical Plaza.
The streets were never free. Congestion pricing finally makes that plain | New York Times
Federal and state governments fund roads with gas taxes that feel far removed from a direct user fee (and that have come to operate like less and less of one in an era of fuel efficiency. “They add up to a pretty giant system of subsidies,” said Michael Manville, a professor of urban planning at the University of California, Los Angeles. “But they don’t look like what we often consider subsidies.” … “The roads hold such a special position in our brain that we use logic around them that we would never use around everything else,” Mr. Manville said.
Democrats’ success in 2020 depends on Hispanic vote | New York Times Opinion
Revealing a contrast to Florida, Matt A. Barreto, a political scientist at UCLA and a co-founder of Latino Decisions, analyzed turnout and voting patterns in Texas. In a March report, Barreto described a huge pro-Democratic turnout increase there, ranging from 105 to 125 percent in eight counties where Hispanics make up more than 90 percent of the population. There were significant gains in counties with white majorities of 83 to 91 percent too, but these upturns were smaller, in the 35 to 55 percent range.
California attorney general says immigration should be decriminalized | HuffPost
Congress criminalized the act of jumping the border in 1929, passing a law spearheaded by Sen. Coleman Blease ― an avowed segregationist known for performing ritual dances to celebrate the lynchings of black men. The law, which was incorporated into the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, laid the basis for the early expansion of the federal prison system, according to research by UCLA professor and historian Kelly Lytle Hernández.
How the Census measures race | KPCC-FM’s “AirTalk”
“How people define themselves in the world changes very rapidly,” says UCLA’s Rebecca Jean Emigh. “It depends on all sorts of historical circumstances, what sort of discrimination they face, what immigration change we have. Those circumstances change quite rapidly. The census on the other hand changes quite slowly.” (Approx. 2:20 mark)
Will more states legalize sports gambling? Bet on it | NPR
“Part of the reason why sports betting is so fascinating and so attractive is that entices so much brain functioning and mind functioning, essentially drawing in attention, excitement, decision making, emotions,” says UCLA’s Dr. Timothy Fong. (Approx. 7:00 mark)
Adult children of lesbian parents less likely to identify as straight | NBC News
The children of lesbian parents are less likely to identify as heterosexual as adults and much more likely to report same-sex attraction, according to a long-term study by the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law, a think tank focused on sexual orientation and gender.
What Los Angeles can learn from NYC’s congestion pricing plan | KPCC-FM’s “AirTalk”
“I think that the Manhattan experiment will reveal how Americans feel about congestion pricing,” says UCLA’s Martin Wachs. “I think it’s worthy of mention that in Stockholm there was a congestion pricing experiment, put in place for about seven or eight months, and was taken away again. … The majority voted to bring it back and put it in place because they valued the reduction of congestion more highly than they were concerned with the cost.” (Approx. 9:27 mark)
Refuting claim that emissions are good for the environment | Daily Beast
“No climate scientist would argue that some CO2 in the atmosphere isn’t a good thing,” [UCLA’s Katharine] Reich told The Daily Beast via email. “As a heat-trapping gas, it’s what allows the atmosphere to retain warmth and make our planet habitable. However, it is possible to have too much of a good thing, and that’s what is happening.”
Landing internships can be tricky for students on quarter system | Chronicle of Higher Education
The [career] advisers acknowledge that the recruiting schedule can be particularly demanding for students seeking positions in industries that recruit in the fall quarter. “Primarily on the recruiting side, it just means we have to make sure that our students are ready earlier and faster than at other schools,” said Christine Wilson, interim director of … UCLA’s career center.
Water outlook for Southern California | KPCC-FM’s “AirTalk”
“The good news is that the reservoirs in the state are all doing extremely well,” says UCLA’s Mark Gold. “They are ranging from two-thirds full to almost 85 percent full, which for this time of year is exactly where you would want them to be. From the standpoint from any concerns about of a water shortage this year or frankly even into next year, they are pretty small.” (Approx. 24:10 mark)
Progress toward better male infertility treatments | Healthline
[UCLA’s Dr. Jesse] Mills, who was also not part of the new research, explained, “What this study shows is that extracting testicular sperm from ‘subfertile’ men will yield a higher number of viable sperm that can be used in in vitro fertilization.”
More older Americans using marijuana to treat pain | VOA
Gary Small is a professor of psychiatry and aging at the University of California, Los Angeles. He said that people Lee’s age — 65 and over — are the country’s fastest-growing group in the marijuana-using population. He said that more studies on the drug’s effects on older people are needed. And he said that, while marijuana may improve quality of life by easing pain and other problems, careless use of the drug could be dangerous.
