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Can the legacy of trauma be passed down through generations? | BBC
Study author Dora Costa, an economist at the University of California, Los Angeles, … and her colleagues studied the health records of nearly 4,600 children whose fathers had been PoWs, comparing them to just over 15,300 children of veterans of the war who had not been captured. The sons of PoWs had an 11% higher mortality rate than the sons of non-PoW veterans. Other factors such as the father’s socioeconomic status and the son’s job and marital status couldn’t account for the higher mortality rate, the researchers found.
Turn your weekends into mini-vacations | Wall Street Journal
People instructed to adopt a vacation mind-set on the weekend returned to work feeling happier and more refreshed, without spending any additional money or time off, according to research on nearly 1,000 full-time workers at the University of California, Los Angeles. … “Merely shifting how you’re thinking can have these wonderful effects on your emotional experience and your time,” says Cassie Mogilner Holmes, … an associate professor of marketing at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management and a leading researcher on happiness.
Trump wants to deport me to Liberia | Washington Post Opinion
(Commentary written by UCLA’s Yatta Kiazolu) When Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) expires, I will be left vulnerable to deportation. Covering some 4,000 Liberian nationals living in America, DED is a comparatively small program, applied only to Liberia; its termination has attracted little notice. But the decision to end it continues the Trump administration’s callous pattern of stripping protections from immigrants — a natural extension of the efforts to rescind Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and take away temporary protected status from those who fled violence and disaster in their home countries.
UCLA named one of Billboard’s top music business schools | Billboard
While the Herb Alpert School already offers an academic minor in music industry studies — 250 students applied for 30 slots this year — it expects university approval to offer a major in the field in 2020. New courses this academic year include Forensic Musicology, co-taught by Judith Finell, who testified as an expert for the Marvin Gaye family in the “Blurred Lines” case. UCLA Extension, the university’s continuing education program, offers certificates in music business, music production and film scoring and a specialized study track in music supervision.
‘Us’ is setting records and breaking barriers | NPR’s “All Things Considered”
“Well, this is a quiet revolution I would call it. With ‘Get Out,’ it was more an in-your-face confrontation of racism as the monster. In ‘Us,’ it’s the skin color on many levels alone that serves as the revolution because it is the first opportunity to see a black family operating in this space with an absolute expectation that all horror audiences will support this film even though the characters are black,” said UCLA’s Tananarive Due.
Where do colleges recruit? Wealthy and white high schools | Inside Higher Ed
A report being issued today suggests that leading public universities contribute in a significant way to these advantages with their recruitment of out-of-state students — and, to some extent, with their lack of recruitment of in-state students as well. The report focuses on the high schools at which public universities recruit outside their state. The study finds that these high schools are more likely than not to be high income and largely white. … The lead researchers on the project are Crystal Han and Ozan Jaquette, both of the University of California, Los Angeles, and Karina Salazar of the University of Arizona.
Saber-toothed cats were fierce and family-oriented | Science News
“That lack of sexual dimorphism is odd,” says Blaire Van Valkenburgh, a UCLA paleontologist who studies fossil carnivores. Sex-related size differences are seen in many big cats today, most particularly lions. She thinks the lack of sexual dimorphism in Smilodon might hint at a different social structure. Perhaps males weren’t competing quite so intensely for access to females. Maybe there was no single alpha male preventing the majority of males from making a move.
CPAP may boost weight loss for dieting adults | WebMD
Previous research has shown conflicting findings on how much a CPAP helps weight loss, says Matthew J. Freeby, MD, an endocrinologist at UCLA Medical Center in Santa Monica. Freeby says a larger study is needed to verify these findings. “The group on CPAP may be very different than the other groups,” he says. They may be more motivated both to use the CPAP and to diet, he says.
Guatemalan masks exhibit at Fowler Museum | LatinoLA
Masks are key elements in many indigenous, popular and religious festivals in Central America. An upcoming exhibit at the Fowler Museum at UCLA focuses on the those from the country known as the “Land of Eternal Spring.” “Guatemalan Masks: Selections from the Jim and Jeanne Pieper Collection” features 80 masks that have been used for generations in the Central American nation. The exhibition consist of “masks depicting animals, folk personae, and historical figures that are deeply rooted in Guatemalan religiosity and popular culture,” according to the museum. It opens April 7.
Native American mascots and redface are slowly disappearing | VOA
Kyle Mays is a professor of African American and American Indian studies at the University of California-Los Angeles. He is both black and a member of Saginaw Anishinaabe, a Native tribe. He said, “It’s hard for me to say people don’t know it’s wrong… They might not know Native people, but they know it’s wrong and it’s just OK to do because there are not any consequences for it.”
