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UCLA’s Hollywood Diversity Report is hopeful for a more inclusive future in the industry | NBC News
With the Oscars days away, it is no revelation that people of color are still greatly underrepresented in every aspect of the Hollywood landscape. What is newsworthy in this year’s Hollywood Diversity Report from UCLA’s Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, however, is that the industry is finally showing signs of measurable improvement…. Dr. Darnell Hunt, who serves as the dean of the division of social sciences at UCLA and teaches sociology and African-American studies, said that the Oscars, as well as the Emmy Awards, are an important catalyst to spark more diversity in the industry overall. That’s why the study is released ahead of the Oscars. “Everyone’s talking about the controversy around the Oscars,” Hunt, one of the report’s three authors, told NBCBLK. “If you’re shutting out diverse projects from getting awards, you’re basically saying they’re not of the same quality, and studios and networks they want to be associated with quality projects.” (Also: Los Angeles Times, Variety, NPR, Fortune)
California wastes most of its rainwater, which simply goes down the drain | Los Angeles Times
“When you look at the Los Angeles River being between 50% and 70% full during a storm, you realize that more water is running down the river into the ocean than what Los Angeles would use in close to a year,” said Mark Gold, associate vice chancellor for environment and sustainability at UCLA. “What a waste of water supply.”
UCLA launches the country’s first intensive affordable housing development course | Architects Newspaper
The executive course, a partnership between school administration and private donors, consists of an intensive three-week program that brings together professors in urban planning and real estate, UCLA M.Arch I graduates, and interested students to develop conceptual proposals for affordable housing projects in Los Angeles. The program — developed by Ziman Center professor of finance Stuart Gabriel, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs lecturer in urban planning Joan Ling, CityLAB UCLA director Dana Cuff, and others — takes students through the exercise of designing, permitting, and funding their projects with the goal of instilling a “curriculum-based” approach to affordable housing development, according to Ziman Center founding executive director Tim Kawahara.
UCLA’s Crenshaw among 25 women who shaped the feminist movement | MSN
[UCLA’s Kimberle Williams Crenshaw] is known for her intersectionality theory, which looks at the interplay of various factors such as race, class, gender, and sexual identity and how they create a web of overlapping oppression for certain individuals. Her work on race and gender has been internationally received.
Measles outbreak: your questions answered | New York Times
During the Disneyland outbreak in 2015, a 9-month-old child whose parents were planning to immunize contracted measles from an older child who hadn’t been vaccinated, said Dr. Annabelle De St. Maurice, an expert on infectious diseases at U.C.L.A. So vaccinating your child not only protects your child, it helps protect others in your community.
Although ‘healthy,’ most undocumented people in California do not have health insurance | La Opinión
Three out of every five undocumented people living in California have low incomes and 90% of them do not have health insurance, although they are “relatively healthy,” according to a report released today. The analysis, developed by the Health Policy Research Center of the University of California Los Angeles, found that low-income undocumented immigrants are “relatively young, relatively healthy and generally work.” About 2.2 million undocumented live in the state, according to the report. “We have left a significant number of low-income residents of California without an affordable way to obtain preventive and primary health services, because of their legal status,” Nadereh Pourat, deputy director of the center and author of the study, said today. (Translated from Spanish)
Why Denver should decriminalize ‘magic mushroom’ drug | Denver Post Opinion
There has been a swell of big-data research lately that has clinically demonstrated the benefits of micro-dosing psilocybin mushrooms for those who suffer from addiction, depression, PTSD and various other psychiatric maladies, and this research is ongoing at places such as Johns Hopkins, New York University, and the University of California Los Angeles as well as throughout Europe.
This is why reading is so important for your brain | Reader’s Digest
“Typically, when you read, you have more time to think,” says Maryanne Wolf, EdD, director of the UCLA Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners, and Social Justice. “Reading gives you a unique pause button for comprehension and insight. By and large, with oral language — when you watch a film or listen to a tape — you don’t press pause.”
You’ve seen those Shen Yun ads all over L.A. Here’s what the show is really about | LAist
Falun Gong amassed millions of followers within a few years in the mid-1990s. Alarmed by its fast rise, the Communist Party launched a smear campaign with the help of state-run media, portraying the practice as quack science that was making practitioners ill, even killing them, said James Tong, who directs the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. “They said some Falun Gong practitioners became crazy and committed suicide,” Tong told KPCC/LAist in an interview last year.
High quality teaching materials for English language learners is goal of new initiative | Education Week
A 2015 study out of the University of California, Los Angeles, found that policies and programs for children of immigrants and English-learners tend to focus on their need for remediation and basic skills, rather than ways to expose them to higher-order thinking skills.
Could this new bill help solve California’s housing crisis? | Fresno Bee
Michael Lens, associate professor of urban planning and public policy at UCLA, says it’s difficult to tell how SB 50 might actually affect housing in California based on the limited scholarship that exists around zoning changes. “It’s important to view a study like this as a part in maybe, modestly, a small part, of a larger body of research that is really early,” he said. “We need to hear from tenants. We need to hear from and listen to developers as to what they say would be a reaction to policies like this,” he said.
With one manufacturer and little money to be made, supplies of a critical cancer drug are dwindling | Stat
Dr. Karim Chamie, an associate professor of urology at University of California, Los Angeles, said the BCG shortage hasn’t affected his practice just yet. But although the stockpile of BCG at UCLA is still in good shape, Chamie projects that will soon change. “Urologists in the community have already hit a shortage, and they’re referring their patients to me,” Chamie said. “So my clinic’s clogging up with patients who need BCG — and they may be using some of the BCG I might have given someone else.”
How to prevent epilepsy seizures | Medical Daily
“Our whole body is an electrical system. We’re communicating through the nerves, and they’re electrical, and your brain is the main generator,” Glenna Tolbert, assistant clinical professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, told Self. “A seizure happens when there’s a misfiring of your nerve cells and the electric activity in the brain is disrupted. It could be temporary, or it could be a chronic problem,” she explained. So when a person experiences multiple seizures that are not tied to a specific cause, they may be diagnosed with epilepsy.
Should you get tested for the ‘breast cancer genes’? | HealthDay News
“BRCA testing is beneficial for the small number of women in the United States who are at increased risk for BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations,” said task force member Dr. Carol Mangione. She is chief of general internal medicine at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine. “The test results are complex and testing comes with some harms, so we recommend women who get tested meet with a licensed genetic counselor who can guide them through the process,” Mangione said in a task force news release.
Here’s what you need to know about ‘healthwashing’ | Well and Good
According to Dana Hunnes, PhD, MPH — a senior dietitian at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and an adjunct assistant professor at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health — this health- and ingredient-focused brand positioning is becoming more and more common as the wellness movement grows in America. “Processed food brands know that people are working towards better health and want to spend money on healthier foods that promote this better health,” she says.
InSight is the newest Mars weather service | Mars Daily
APSS includes an air pressure sensor inside the lander and two air temperature and wind sensors on the lander’s deck. Under the edge of the deck is a magnetometer, provided by UCLA, which will measure changes in the local magnetic field that could also influence SEIS. It is the first magnetometer ever placed on the surface of another planet.
