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Washington on high alert for Mueller report, but uncertainty surrounds what happens next | Los Angeles Times
“There are some really important parts of the puzzle that Mueller has engaged with but not come to ground with,” said Harry Litman, a University of California law professor and former federal prosecutor.
Spotify’s deal signals a golden era of podcasting | Los Angeles Times
“The subscription model is a better consumer experience than having an advertising business,” said Michael Montgomery, a lecturer at UCLA Anderson School of Management. “Netflix has shown that in spades.”
Jussie Smollett’s alleged lies inflame already tense Chicago | Washington Post
“You’d have to go back to ‘The Cosby Show’ in the ’80s to find a show that’s that popular and based on the stories of black people,” said Darnell Hunt, director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at the University of California at Los Angeles. Smollett’s role in particular was an anomaly for network TV, where gay characters have often been relegated to the background. His presence touched off wider conversations about how homosexuality is portrayed and discussed within the black community. “He was one of the regulars, with a major role and his own story line,” Hunt said. “That’s valuable to encourage dialogues within a community that were either taboo in the past or discussed in a nonconstructive way.”
Films with nonwhite leads gave best return on investment, new UCLA study says | The Wrap
“Every year the data have shown that film and television content that feature diverse casts typically make more money and enjoy higher ratings and audience engagement,” Dr. Darnell Hunt, one of the authors of the report, said in a statement. “We feel confident our partners in Hollywood today see the value of diversity in ways that they did not before we began sharing our report.” The report was authored by Hunt, Dr. Ana-Christina Ramón and Michael Tran at UCLA. (Also: KTTV-TV)
How Netflix is shaking up Hollywood’s traditional Oscar model | Al Jazeera
Gabriel Rossman, a sociologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, who studies the film industry, said that Netflix originally changed direction because they were “paying a lot for licensing and renewals.” He explained that once the “studios started asking for more royalties, then [Netflix] shifted from a ‘buy’ decision to a ‘make’ decision.” Rossman said Netflix “basically created a premium cable channel with a business model not that different from what HBO has been doing.”
Immigrants are suffering in detention. They need adequate health care now | Los Angeles Times Opinion
(Commentary written by UCLA’s Altaf Saadi) Media reports of high-profile deaths capture only a sliver of the human rights violations occurring in detention. None of the patients I interviewed died from the dangerous neglect they experienced, and so their experiences didn’t garner headlines. But their experiences were dangerous — and not uncommon. We need to hold the U.S. government accountable not just for the deaths that occur of immigrants in their custody, but also for the neglect and abuse that can lead to or exacerbate serious health problems.
When transfer students knock, more colleges are opening the door | Christian Science Monitor
This shift may have begun with the recession, which pushed students to avoid the full cost of a four-year degree. “Since 2008 people are going ‘Well wait, hold on,’” says Heather Adams, transfer student program director at the University of California, Los Angeles. “This is a financially feasible route whether you’re a nontraditional student who needs the flexibility of community college or you’re a student whose family doesn’t have the money to send you to a four-year university.”
In Los Angeles, climate change gentrification is already happening | Daily Beast
Liz Koslov, an assistant professor of Urban Planning and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA, told The Daily Beast that most people will likely decide to move short distances if they feel the need to move due to climate change-related issues. She said people may see the need to find a less risky area, but they’ll still want to be close to their social and professional networks. “Governments, policymakers and city planners are increasingly anticipating climate change in the projects that they take on and are building protective infrastructure or deciding not to fund the protection of certain areas,” Koslov said. “Their actions in anticipation of climate impacts and in response to disasters … have the potential to displace a lot of people or make places more habitable.”
Baltimore schools draft policy to protect transgender students | Baltimore Sun
A recent study from the UCLA law school found there is no validity to claims that gender-identity protections lead to privacy or safety violations in bathrooms. Such incidents, the study found, remain exceedingly rare.
Utah lawmakers are about to unveil a bill to protect LGBTQ youths from ‘conversion therapy’ | Salt Lake Tribune
Widely disavowed, this therapy no longer happens as overtly as it has in the past, he added, but varieties of it persist. Nearly 700,000 LGBTQ adults in the United States have undergone conversion therapy at some point in their lives, about half of them as adolescents, according to a study by the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law.
For many Southern California students, two languages (or more) are better than one | Orange County Register
“Southern California is one of the most linguistically diverse areas in the United States,” said Maria Carreira, co-director of the National Heritage Language Resource Center at UCLA, which focuses on immigrant language learning.
Israel launches spacecraft to the moon | NPR
The spacecraft is set to run experiments on the moon’s surface — in particular, SpaceIL says it will collaborate with the Weizmann Institute of Science and UCLA to “take measurements of the Moon’s mysterious magnetic field.”
Analysts scratch their heads about the missed holiday sales forecast | California Apparel News
David Shulman, a senior economist with the UCLA Anderson Forecast, agreed. He said the business school’s current forecast maintains that the U.S. and California economies will grow moderately this year and next. He predicted that the disappointing holiday 2018 numbers will be revised because the NRF gets its data from the U.S. Census Bureau. The bureau’s economists may have made errors because they were slammed with a tidal wave of information after the recent 35-day government shutdown ending Jan. 25. The announcement of holiday business results was delayed because of the shutdown, which was the longest government closure in U.S. history.
Five key benefits of green buildings on the environment and your lifestyle | Inhabitat
A UCLA study showed that employees who work in green buildings were 16 percent more productive than those who work in traditional buildings. Study author Professor Magali Delmas says employees in green buildings and those who adopt green practices are “more motivated, received more training, and benefit from better interpersonal relationships.”
A missing gene makes a big difference in patients’ recovery from mild stroke | Medical Xpress
“This is the first time that a human gene has been linked to a better recovery from stroke,” said senior author Dr. S. Thomas Carmichael, chair of the neurology department at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. “Our discovery offers exciting potential for improving patients’ health and enhancing their quality of life.”
