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The basketball coach who went back to school | Wall Street Journal
Though returning to [UCLA] hasn’t been easy — [Earl] Watson said he’s had many “I should be in Cabo right now” moments — it’s given him a new appreciation for the power of academics and a multilayered perspective that few coaches have had on the college game. “Because of the life experiences and everything I overcame to this point, it’s almost better coming to college later because I found my voice through life,” Watson said. “I understand where I stand in life.” … Mary F. Corey, a UCLA history professor who has taught Watson during both of his college tours, said he started out as a shy but diligent student. This time around Watson is more confident, Corey said, recalling a recent seminar he took on the anti-colonial ideological underpinnings of black nationalism. “We did oral presentations and he has a great voice,” Corey said. “He commands a room. He’s a very charismatic man.”
Nobel Laureate Sydney Brenner also inspired artists — with worm art | Forbes
Biologists who study genetics, developmental biology or neuroscience don’t always interact with each other. Each field has their own set of conferences, organized by different scientific societies. But the researchers who use the C. elegans worm in their research also get together at the International C. elegans conference, held every two years at the University of California, Los Angeles. And just like the worm itself, the worm scientist community is just the right size: big enough to make an impact, and small enough that people make connections. One particular bond that this group of scientists seems to share more than any other is their love of art. When these biologists get together at their conference to share the latest discoveries about C. elegans, they not only share their latest research updates, but they can also submit C. elegans-themed art to the Worm Art Show.
A slew of firsts in Gov. Newsom’s weekend trip to El Salvador | CALmatters
“Irrespective of immigration policy, [the Salvadoran population in California] is a very large community, so it is important for the governor to go visit and make connections — be they business, trade, or cultural exchange,” said Matt Barreto, a professor of political science and Chicano studies at UCLA.
‘As Native Americans, we are in a constant state of mourning’ | New York Times Opinion
Last week in a ceremony, Bristol Museum officials returned the remains to representatives of the Ti’at Society, a maritime organization of the Tongva, whose forebears lived on the four southern Channel Islands and across the Los Angeles basin for thousands of years. In recent years, the Tongva and their allies, including the Fowler Museum at UCLA, have been working to track down the fate of looted Tongva bodies so that they may be reburied. This effort led the tribe across the Atlantic and to its first international repatriation.
The L.A. LGBT Center’s new campus is like a miniature queer city | Los Angeles Magazine
According to a 2012 study by the Williams Institute at UCLA, 40 percent of homeless youth identify as LGBT, and 46 percent ran away because of family rejection of their sexual orientation or gender identity. Thirty-two percent faced physical, emotional, or sexual abuse at home.
Review: ‘The White Album’ | Los Angeles Times
In “The White Album,” staged at the Freud Playhouse this weekend in a Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA presentation (in association with Center Theatre Group), Jan paid tribute to Didion’s essay by having it incanted by Obie-winning actress Mia Barron, a co-creator of the piece and his offstage partner. This recitation was at the core of a multilayered production (developed by Jan’s company, Early Morning Opera) that radiated with a light hallucinatory touch.
Clinical implications of health care in the age of personalization | Forbes
I spoke with Johnese Spisso, president of UCLA Health and CEO of UCLA Hospital System, about balancing personalization and standardization. As she described it, there’s a need to balance “individualized, personalized medicine to make sure we’re getting the right patient the right test or procedure at the right time. Then, also, the need to reduce variability where appropriate according to evidence-based guidelines to achieve the best outcomes for patients, and to demonstrate value-added care that is affordable as well. As health system leaders, we have to be exploring both.”
Meet the Bethlehem man who knows how ‘Game of Thrones’ ends | Morning Call
“Game of Thrones” was a huge leap forward for HBO, said Tom Nunan, a lecturer at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television in Los Angeles. “No one had ever done science-fiction and fantasy on that scale,” Nunan said. “‘Game of Thrones’ is that once-in-a-lifetime show where everything works beautifully together. It’s a fantasy show that somehow feels like history. It has this wild combination of genres that’s never been seen before in film or TV.”
L.A. tenants’ rights activists take eviction fight to landlord’s home | Los Angeles Daily News
“We’re now seeing an increased rate in Ellis Act evictions that take rent-controlled units off the market,” said Kyle Nelson, a UCLA Ph.D. candidate in sociology focusing on housing and eviction. He noted that Ellis Act eviction cases have risen to nearly the same levels as before the 2008 economic recession, calling the law the “primary loophole and driver of the affordable housing crisis.”
Measuring the universe may lead to new physics, new model of universe | Australian Broadcast Corp.
“We have this dark matter particle that nobody has ever seen and nobody has ever detected in the lab, on the ground or anywhere,” said UCLA’s Tommaso Treu. “And so any hint of something different at what we think is the baseline may help us understand in greater depth what’s going on. Examples are more families of neutrinos or more families of relativistic neutrinos, or perhaps a dark energy that is not the cosmological constant.”
Why do older heart attack patients get worse care? | HealthDay
Dr. Gregg Fonarow, a professor of cardiology at the University of California, Los Angeles, said there is a real problem in how older heart attack patients are treated. “While the investigators found that older patients had lower adjusted total hospital charges despite lower quality care and worse outcomes, this finding further illustrates how misleading and counterproductive it is for Medicare to be using cost data as a hospital level metric of quality and value,” said Fonarow, who was also not part of the study. “These findings highlight how important it is to improve the quality of care, particularly for older patients with heart attacks in U.S. hospitals,” he said.
What is structural memetics and why does it matter? | Medium
There are signs that the neuroscience is slowly waking up to this fact. In [UCLA] Prof. Matt Lieberman’s book, “Social,” he says, “In essence, our brains are built to think about the social world and our place in it.” This means that empathy, or more exactly, the level of development of empathy as the primary connecting function of our brains, actually creates the social structures, which are realizations of patterns of different level of human connection. As well as how we think about everything else. Our social relations, structured by our empathetic development, lay down the core memetic patterns in our brains, which then happen to get used for how we think about everything else.
