UCLA In the News lists selected mentions of UCLA in the world’s news media. See more UCLA In the News.
Colleges expand their reach to address mental health issues | New York Times
When Elizabeth Gong-Guy was named director of UCLA’s counseling and psychological services in 2005, the university was providing mental health services to less than 10 percent of its students. A decade later, when she moved into a different role, as executive director of UCLA campus and student resilience, more than 20 percent were under the university’s care. Seeing no end to the growth, UCLA became an early adopter of internet-based screenings and online mental health treatment. The university has also invested in “resilience peers” who are not licensed to provide counseling but who offer a release valve for stressed-out students.
UCLA gymnastics is a surging powerhouse with a following to match | Los Angeles Times
The Bruins drew more than 10,000 fans to each of their last two home meets, including 10,323 fans in a victory over Arizona last week. They sold out a meet at Stanford. Gymnastics has become a major sport at UCLA, becoming a source of pride for an athletic powerhouse experiencing a series of disappointing seasons in men’s basketball and football. “It’s a magical season,” coach Valorie Kondos Field said. “Everything’s falling into place.” (UCLA’s Katelyn Ohashi also quoted)
Federal Reserve may stop raising interest rates because of slowing economy | NPR
“That sounds to me like a slight weakening,” said UCLA’s Jessica Rett. “‘Strong’ is a positive, evaluative adjective that suggests that we’ve got a positive judgment of what’s happening. If I have a student in a course and I say their progression is strong then it suggests that I feel positively towards their progression. On the other hand, ‘solid’ progression is not necessarily a positive one. It could be something I’m not particularly happy about but at least minimally it’s consistent. So these two adjectives focus on different components of the rise.”
Federal government sued by 16 states for declaration of national emergency | KCRW-FM
“He’s made the declaration under the National Emergencies Act and we do know that many presidents have used the National Emergencies Act in a variety of situations, usually to deal with funds for a small number of people accused of terrorist activities,” said UCLA’s Jennifer Chacón. “We saw George W. Bush do it, obviously, in response to the September 11th attacks in 2001. But this kind of a large-scale declaration of a national emergency in a situation where there is slow-moving events and no actual emergency is absolutely unprecedented.” (Approx. 2:48 mark)
Pay attention to the growing wave of climate change lawsuits | Vox
“That’s the brilliance of having children as the plaintiffs,” said Ann Carlson, a professor of environmental law at the University of California Los Angeles. “They’re arguing about the future of the planet.”
Teachers’ strike fueled by Bay Area housing crisis | Los Angeles Times
John Rogers, a University of California, Los Angeles education professor who directs the school’s Institute for Democracy, Education and Access, sees these labor actions, along with others in Denver and West Virginia, as feeding on one another’s energy, with union members seeing an increase in public support as an opportunity to make their voices heard. “I think that there’s a lot of pent-up public energy,” he said. “In the last few years, teachers have felt oftentimes under assault by various different messages that questioned their status, questioned their roles. We’ve seen a shift in public opinion. “There’s a change afoot that we see,” he continued. “And I think teachers probably recognize that there’s an opening for their ideas to be heard.”
HIV drug could improve recovery after stroke | Science magazine
New research suggests such a therapy could come from an unlikely target: a cellular protein called CCR5 that allows HIV to infect cells. Scientists found that in mice, disabling CCR5 helps surviving neurons make new connections, and that people who carry a CCR5 mutation may recover better from a stroke…. UCLA stroke neurologist Thomas Carmichael was intrigued. “When you watch patients recover in stroke, it looks like they're relearning to walk or relearning language,” he says. Indeed, surviving neurons near the injury sprout tendrils to make new contacts across the brain. A drug that targets CCR5 seemed promising for stroke recovery, and that drug was already on hand. (UCLA’s Alcino Silva also mentioned) (Also: Scientific American)
Covington teen cheered by conservatives for lawsuit despite legal hurdles | The Washington Times
“Regardless of where the lawsuit goes, it will highlight the way that the newspapers behaved here, particularly in this case the way The Post behaved here,” said [UCLA’s Eugene] Volokh, including “to the extent that The Post was too quick to rush to judgment here, to the extent that it perhaps gave too much credit to one side of the story.”
California tries to ban cups that hold more than 16 fluid ounces | CBS News
A 2016 study by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research found more than 2.5 million, or 1 in 12, adults in California have been diagnosed with diabetes. An additional 13 million have pre-or undiagnosed diabetes. Diabetes is the 7th leading cause of death in California, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
How much leisure time do the happiest people have? | The Atlantic
The research traced a correlation between free time and life satisfaction, but didn’t provide any definitive insight into what underlies that correlation — “which is exciting, because this is a work in progress,” says Cassie Mogilner Holmes, a professor at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management and a co-author of the paper, which hasn’t yet been peer-reviewed or published in an academic journal. Holmes’s co-authors are her UCLA colleague Hal Hershfield and Marissa Sharif, a professor at Wharton, the University of Pennsylvania’s business school.
To shore up Obamacare in California, Newsom wants to try an individual mandate | Pasadena Star-News
If the state doesn’t take action, as many as 450,000 more Californians will be uninsured in 2020 than if the federal government had left the individual mandate in place, according to a recent analysis by researchers at UC Berkeley and UCLA.
Alcoholics may benefit from opioid-blocking implant, says Anaheim company | Orange County Register
The NIH is funding more than 100 research projects throughout the nation aimed at developing medications to battle opioid addiction, according to NIH data. Current grants total more than $64 million and include two projects at UCLA, one of which specifically targets heavy-drinking smokers with a combination of varenicline and naltrexone.
Jewish hospital deal could prime University of Louisville for growth | Louisville Courier Journal
Gerald Kominski, a professor with the University of California Los Angeles’ Fielding School of Public Health, said there could be short- and long-range advantages to buying Jewish Hospital for the university. “It increases their presence in the community,” he said. “It seems to me that it’s a move that makes sense.”
Scientist who gene-hacked babies ‘likely’ boosted their brainpower | Futurism
“The answer is likely yes, it did affect their brains,” Alcino Silva, a University of California, Los Angeles neuroscientist who worked on the new research, told MIT Tech. “The simplest interpretation is that those mutations will probably have an impact on cognitive function in the twins.”
Ultra-lightweight ceramic material withstands extreme temperatures | Science Daily
UCLA researchers and collaborators at eight other research institutions have created an extremely light, very durable ceramic aerogel. The material could be used for applications like insulating spacecraft because it can withstand the intense heat and severe temperature changes that space missions endure.
