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.
"Not only do they get chronic wounds more than the rest of us, but they take longer to heal in that population."
"Not only do they get chronic wounds more than the rest of us, but they take longer to heal in that population."— Heather Maynard, professor of chemistry and biochemistry and a member of California NanoSystems at UCLA, in a Feb. 25 Fierce Biotech Research report on the development of a therapeutic compound that has the ability to mimic the body's natural ability to heal wounds.
“He is really passionate about preserving the language. But he cannot do it alone. He has to train some younger teachers. I don't know if he has somebody to pass on his passion — I hope he does.”
— Shoichi Iwasaki, professor in the UCLA Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, in a Feb. 24 Los Angeles Times article about efforts to preserve Uchinaaguchi, a language of the Japanese island chain of Okinawa.
"Whatever adjective is worse than bad, this is it. We're concluding, either explicitly or implicitly, that these are throwaway kids."
“He is really passionate about preserving the language. But he cannot do it alone. He has to train some younger teachers. I don't know if he has somebody to pass on his passion — I hope he does.”
— Shoichi Iwasaki, professor in the UCLA Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, in a Feb. 24 Los Angeles Times article about efforts to preserve Uchinaaguchi, a language of the Japanese island chain of Okinawa.
"Whatever adjective is worse than bad, this is it. We're concluding, either explicitly or implicitly, that these are throwaway kids."— Franklin D. Gilliam Jr., dean of UCLA's Luskin School of Public Affairs and a professor of political science and public policy, in a Feb 26. Los Angeles Times article about learning gaps between African American and white students in Los Angeles public schools.
"Powerful dealers are bidding on their own artists' work to keep prices rising, and there are even a few instances of artists doing this themselves. The anonymity guaranteed by auction houses makes it almost impossible to know how much collusion there is."— Andrea Fraser, UCLA professor of art, in a Feb. 25 article in Britain’s Guardian about auction houses selling art of dubious provenance.
“The reason there isn’t a revolutionary movement today is that people haven’t done something similar.”— Joshua Bloom, a UCLA doctoral candidate in sociology, in a Feb. 21 Boston Bay State Banner report, which highlighted the book “Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party.” Bloom co-wrote the new book on the evolution of the Black Panthers and their political philosophy.
“We know maternity leave is associated with lower infant mortality rates.”—Dr. Jody Heymann, dean of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and founding director of the World Policy Analysis Center at UCLA, was quoted in a Feb. 22 New York Times article about maternity, family and medical leave in the United States.
