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UCLA hospitals make Newsweek’s list of world’s top 1,000 | Orange County Register
Twenty Southern California hospitals have been named among the top 1,000 in the world, across 11 countries, in a list compiled for the first time by Newsweek in collaboration with Statista Inc., a global marketing research and consumer data company. Three of those area hospitals — Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center [No. 8 in the U.S.], Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and UCLA Medical Center in Santa Monica [No. 17 in the U.S.] — are ranked among the top 100 globally. (Also: KNBC-TV)
Ronald Siegel, drug expert who believed people naturally like to get high, dies at 76 | Los Angeles Times
Ronald K. Siegel, a leading authority on psychoactive substances who believed the war on drugs was futile because the pursuit of intoxication — drugs, alcohol, psychotropic plants — is permanently and deeply embedded in the psyche of every human being, has died from complications of Alzheimer’s disease. He was 76. Siegel, a research professor with the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at UCLA for more than 20 years, died March 24 at his home in Los Angeles, said Tom Pope, a longtime friend…. A marathon runner, Siegel met his future wife, Jane Barack, while running on the track at UCLA. Together they shared a love of travel, opera and UCLA basketball.
‘As society goes, school goes’: New report details toll on schools in Trump’s America | Washington Post Perspective
That is the start of a new report titled “School and Society in the Age of Trump” that looks at how school principals are dealing with — and how students are affected by — social issues that have been prominent during the Trump presidency…. The report, written by researchers at the University of California at Los Angeles’s Institute for Democracy, Education and Access, details findings from a nationally representative poll taken of hundreds of high school principals. And it includes recommendations for school leaders to consider. This post about the findings was written by Mike Rose, a highly respected research professor in the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.
Why California’s proposed law on deadly police force isn’t as tough as it seems | Los Angeles Times
His interpretation matters because he is a founder of Lexipol, a for-profit company that sells policy manuals to law enforcement departments. Lexipol polices are used by 93% of California police and sheriff’s departments, according to a study by UCLA, which called the company “a force to be reckoned with in American policing.”
Why we keep getting into rideshare cars with strangers | CNN
“There’s clearly something about having the technology there as the mediator that created this level of trust between riders and drivers,” said Saba Waheed, research director at the UCLA Labor Center, whose expertise includes labor and sharing economy businesses like Uber and Lyft. But that trust came with a price, she says.
An overeager legal strategy may endanger Trump’s energy goals | Roll Call
In August, Ann Carlson, an environmental law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, noted that the administration had lost four high profile environmental cases in the previous eight days. That spate, which included defeats over the Keystone XL pipeline, a toxic pesticide, water regulations and safety rules for chemical plants, followed a slew of losses “over the past 18 months,” she wrote. “To some degree, the mounting losses for the Trump Administration involve its failure to follow proper administrative process,” Carlson wrote on a legal blog hosted by the University of California, Berkeley, and UCLA. “But many of the cases cast doubt not just on the procedure but also the substance of the underlying actions.
What is musical genre exactly? | Pacific Standard
Prior to recorded music, genre was mostly sorted by function, according to Robert Fink, a University of California–Los Angeles musicologist. Religious oratorios and liturgical music for mass were separated from secular music, which was identified primarily by its social geography…. “The musicians were interested in all different kinds of music,” Fink says. “But these guys would go out and they would ask musicians to perform music that they thought would match the audience that looked like them,” creating a self-reinforcing loop of what race and hillbilly records sounded like.
UCLA’S 3 Wishes Project fulfills wishes for dying patients, their families | KABC-TV
When a loved one is a hospital’s intensive care unit, the experience can be very stressful. And if the patient rapidly declines, a different kind of emotional stress affects both the patient and the loved one, as the focus may then shift to end-of-life care. The 3 Wishes Project at UCLA Medical Center’s ICU aims to make that a much more gentle, loving and dignified time.… Dr. Thanh Neville and UCLA colleague Dr. Peter Phung launched the program after receiving a grant from from the California State University Institute for Palliative Care. “By honoring the patient’s life and creating a positive memory, we can help support family during an extremely difficult time,” Neville said.
Astronomers spy an iron planet stripped of its crust around a burned-out star | Science
“It’s amazing to me that they can deduce the existence of an object so small,” says astronomer Ben Zuckerman of the University of California, Los Angeles, who was not involved in the work. But he and astronomer Mukremin Kilic of the University of Oklahoma in Norman agree that the team’s explanation is the likeliest one.
63 years after Brown versus Board case, segregated classrooms persist | USA Today
Despite a history of legal efforts since 1881 that banned segregated schooling, New Jersey is the sixth most segregated state in the U.S. for black students and seventh for Latinos, according to the University of California Los Angeles Civil Rights Project.
Best teeth whitening kits that are safe and effective | Fatherly
“They do work,” says Dr. Edmond R. Hewlett, a dentist and a professor at the UCLA School of Dentistry. “The active ingredient in those strips is the same as the gel that the dentist gives you to take home…. The strips don’t hurt gums or enamel. The peroxide can irritate the gum, but you only have the strips in for a short time. The risk is almost nil.”
Domestic workers are in high demand, but the jobs have few protections and little pay | Money
“[Domestic work] was largely, at that time, a black, African American workforce,” explains Saba Waheed, research director at the Labor Center at University of California, Los Angeles. “Coming out of slavery, the resistance came from Southern lawmakers who, just across the board, did not really see women’s work as real work.” That prejudice has largely continued to today. “Home work is not valued as real work, and not seen as labor,” Waheed adds.
Young artists fund pediatric cancer treatment breakthroughs | The Argonaut
Chords2Cure proceeds have already made a difference in other kids’ lives by funding clinical trials by UCLA Medical Center pediatric oncologist Dr. Noah Federman — who treated Jaxon and Mafalda — that facilitated FDA approval of a new drug for treating pediatric cancer. It’s the first new pediatric cancer therapy to come online in decades. “There’s not a lot of awareness for these types of cancers. Altogether there are about 13,000 pediatric cancers per year in the whole United States. Breast cancer is about 250,000 cases, lung cancer half a million or so,” said Federman. “But cancer is a major killer of children. It’s one of the most common causes of childhood mortality after accidental death, trauma, etc. It’s a public health menace, if you think of it that way. And the funding just really has not been there as it has for other cancers, and that’s really how this all started — the Blumenthals and a bunch of other families who were really driven to make a difference.”
‘Occupying the Master’s House’ with Ananya Roy | Medium’s “Team Human”
Playing for Team Human today, professor, scholar, and activist Ananya Roy. Ananya will be showing us how the fight for global social justice often begins at home. Roy has been working with Occupy Wall Street’s Micah White (Team Human Ep. 04) on a course about housing inequality for the Activist Graduate School, and is a professor of Urban Planning and Social Welfare at UCLA, where she is also director of the Institute on Inequality and Democracy. Her book “Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development” unearthed the counter-revolutionary agenda embedded in many so-called “development” programs. She looks at global poverty from a truly global perspective, which sometimes means the inequality in our own back yards and highway underpasses.
Is the U.S. labor market tightening? | Marketplace
“We may be ratcheting down to a much lower level of job creation – which means we’re out of labor,” said UCLA’s David Shulman. (Audio download)
Examining the reality of gang violence in South LA | KPCC-FM’s “AirTalk”
“I don’t want to turn this into an echo chamber. So what I’ll say is, it’s been a very important journey that we’ve had, in terms of gang prevention, gang intervention, the type of programs we have in the community. And the picture has changed,” said UCLA’s Jorja Leap. (Approx. 22:25 mark)
