UCLA Headlines March 24, 2008

 

Today’s online edition of the Wall Street Journal features a conversation with Matthew Kahn, professor at the UCLA Institute of the Environment, about population growth and its effect on the Earth’s resources.

 

In a Sacramento Bee op-ed piece on Sunday, Dr. Linda Rosenstock, dean of the UCLA School of Public Health, discussed the current shortage of public health workers in the U.S. and the toll that shortage may take on the nation’s health in the future.

 

An article about the Prada Foundation in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine highlights the work of Francesco Vezzoli, an artist-in-residence at the UCLA Hammer Museum. Vezzoli is quoted.

 

Sunday’s Los Angeles Times featured a column by Dr. Susan Partovi, assistant professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, about “street medicine,” in which health care providers seek out the homeless population on the streets in order to offer medical care.

 

Today’s Los Angeles Times features a column by Barbara Abercrombie, an instructor at the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program, about recognizing stroke symptoms.

 

Clark, former chairman of the University of California Board of Regents and a major donor to UCLA Medical Center, died March 14. See Saturday’s Los Angeles Times.

 

 

Baum, UCLA professor of political science, is quoted today in two Singapore Straits Times articles about relations between Taiwan and China.

 

Ganz, director of cancer prevention and control research at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, is quoted today in a Los Angeles Times article about the growth of genetic testing.

 

Gilliam, professor of political science and director of UCLA’s Center for Communications and Community, was quoted Sunday in a Boston Globe op-ed piece about the role of race in presidential politics.

 

Gonzales, a researcher at UCLA’s Integrated Substance Abuse Programs, is quoted today in a Los Angeles Times article about prescription drug abuse among teens.

 

Littner, professor-in-residence of pulmonary and critical care medicine at the UCLA–San Fernando Valley Program, was quoted Friday in a Newsweek article about the health problems associated with snoring.

 

LoPucki, UCLA professor of law, was quoted Sunday in a Los Angeles Times article about the national mortgage crisis.

 

Mitchell, UCLA’s Ho-su Wu Professor of Management at the Anderson School of Management, is quoted today in a Los Angeles Business Journal article about labor negotiations between West Coast dockworkers and shippers.

 

Paquette, adjunct associate professor of hematology and oncology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, was quoted Sunday in a HealthDay News article about recent advances in treatment aplastic anemia.

 

Rawson, professor-in-residence of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences and associate director of UCLA’s Integrated Substance Abuse Programs, is quoted today in a Los Angeles Times article about prescription drug abuse among teens.

 

Schill, dean of the UCLA School of Law, was quoted Sunday in a Los Angeles Times article about real-estate mogul Dan Emmet, who recently gave $5 million to the law school to establish a center and endowed chair that will focus on climate change.

 

Wagoner, UCLA assistant professor of education, was quoted Saturday in a Los Angeles Daily News article about the problems faced by community college students who hope to transfer to four-year universities.

 

Volokh, UCLA professor of law, was quoted Saturday in a San Gabriel Valley Tribune article about Yahoo pulling the plug on a controversial Web site.