UCLA staff and faculty members are quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent selection.
“Much more work must be done on the television diversity front before the corps of writers telling our stories look significantly more like us as a nation.”— Darnell Hunt, professor of sociology and director of UCLA's Bunche Center for African American Studies, quoted in a March 26 Variety column on a new Writers Guild of America-West report authored by Hunt, who found that despite recent gains, female and minority television writers still lag behind their white male counterparts in employment.
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Youth with a chronic health problem like diabetes are at risk of losing the support of their health care providers.”
Youth with a chronic health problem like diabetes are at risk of losing the support of their health care providers.”— Dr. Debra Lotstein, associate clinical professor of pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA, in a March 25 United Press International report on a study led by Lotstein showing that youth with Type 1 diabetes who had transitioned from pediatric care to adult care were more than twice as likely to have chronically high blood glucose levels.
“We're engineering hope.”— Wentai Liu, professor of bioengineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, in an LA Weekly blog March 26, highlighting his development of a powerful computer chip used in a new implantable "bionic eye" that allows those who have lost their vision due to certain eye diseases to see again.
"Introducing solid foods early [to babies]...decreases the ability to get optimal benefits, like protection against infection."— Dr. Alice Kuo, associate professor of internal medicine and pediatrics and a member of UCLA's Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities, quoted March 25 in a Reuters article about a new study suggesting that many parents begin feeding their babies solid foods too early.
“It’s all bull$%#t anyway.”— Samuel Culbert, professor of human resources and organizational behavior at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, in a March 25 column in Forbes that highlighted Culbert's book, "Get Rid of the Performance Review!", in which he argues that the common corporate job performance review damages employees' morale and stifles creativity.
“When glucose is absorbed quickly, it can cause a rapid rise in blood sugar — and in turn, a rapid decrease.”— Susan Bowerman, assistant director of the UCLA Center for Human Nutrition, in a column in the March edition of Prevention magazine on the benefits of olive oil.
