UCLA Headlines June 25, 2009

 

The Los Angeles Times reports today on a town hall discussion where staff members expressed concern to campus leaders aboutthe budget crisis, includingUniversity of California plans to implement salary reductions and furloughs.Chancellor Gene Block and several staff members were quoted.

 

KPCC-89.3 FM’s “Air Talk” on Tuesday featured Gerald Kominski, professor of health services and associate director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, in a discussion of President Obama’s recent speech about health care reform.

 

Shiva Falsafi, a lecturer in women's studies at UCLA, was interviewed Wednesday in a KNBC-Channel 4 news story about the Iranian election protests.

 

Yvonne Sininger, professor-in-residence of head and neck surgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, was featured Wednesday on BBC Radio-Channel 4’s “The World Tonight” program in a story about how hearing is regulated by the left and right sides of the brain.

 

KABC-Channel 7 reported Wednesday on a UCLA study by researchers at the Jules Stein Eye Institute that found that an overwhelming majority of eye cancer patients said they would want a genetic test to predict the risk of their tumor spreading aggressively — even if no treatments existed to help. Dr. Tara McCannel, director of the Ophthalmic Oncology Center at the Jules Stein Eye Institute and the study's co-principal investigator, was featured.

 

Monday’s Forbes features a column by Judea Pearl, UCLA professor-in-residence of computer science, about the notion of free will as it relates to artificial intelligence.

 

Britain’s Guardian reports today on research led by UCLA associate professor of geography Thomas Gillespie and UCLA professor of geography John Agnew that employed satellite imagery and geographic analysis in an effort to determine where terrorist leader Osama bin Laden is hiding. Gillespie is cited.

 

 

Abarbanel, director of the Rape Treatment Center at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center, is quoted today in an Associated Press article about the deferment of analyzing DNA evidence from rape and sexual assault cases in Los Angeles County due to a lack of funding.

 

Field, assistant professor of cinema and media studies at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, was quoted Wednesday in an Associated Press story about race issues surrounding the jive-talking robots in the movie "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen."

 

Leamer, Chauncey J. Medberry Professor of Management at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and director of the UCLA Anderson Forecast, is quoted today in a Los Angeles Times article about a recent report showing that the tourism industry generates the most jobs in Los Angeles County.

 

LoPucki, Security Pacific Bank Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law, was quoted Wednesday in a Business Week article about Indiana pension funds challenging the sale of Chrysler’s assets to Italian carmaker Fiat Auto.

 

McCarthy, adjunct associate professor of psychology and health services at the UCLA School of Public Health, was quoted Wednesday in a Malibu Times article about a ban on smoking in Malibu's outdoor public areas.

 

McGuire, UCLA associate clinical professor of plastic surgery, is quoted today in a New York Times article about cellulite treatments.

 

Mitchell, professor of public policy and management, emeritus, is quoted today in a Sacramento Bee story about the effect spending cuts and taxes may have on California’s economy.

 

Treyzon, UCLA visiting resident in the division of digestive disorders and clinical instructor in the department of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, was quoted Wednesday in an Examiner article about gluten-free food products.