UCLA Headlines March 31, 2008

 

Today’s Los Angeles Times features a column by Dr. Robert Kotler, clinical instructor in the division of head and neck surgery at UCLA Medical Center, about patients’ role in helping decide the best approach to treating their diseases.

 

The New York Times reported Sunday on a proposed parking plan for Manhattan’s Upper West Side developed by Donald Shoup, UCLA professor of urban planning.

 

Today’s Los Angeles Times features a column by Susan Bowerman, assistant director of the UCLA Center for Human Nutrition, about the heightened amount of vitamin D found in mushrooms exposed to ultraviolet light.

 

In an article today about religion on university campuses, USA Today cites findings from a UCLA Higher Education Research Institute study that examined college students’ spirituality.

 

An op-ed piece in Sunday’s Los Angeles Times about U.S. incarceration rates cited research by UCLA public policy professor Mark Kleiman on a probation program for drug offenders in Hawaii.

 

In a Friday article about Canadian research on kidney-disease treatment, the Peterborough Examiner (Ontario) highlights a mobile dialysis device developed by Dr. Victor Gura, UCLA associate clinical professor of nephrology.

 

On Friday, Forbes featured a column about China’s economy by Donald Straszheim, a visiting scholar at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

 

 

Atchison, UCLA vice provost of intellectual property and industrial relations, was quoted Friday in a Ventura County Star article about California’s biotechnology industry.

 

Bainbridge, UCLA professor of law, was quoted Friday in a Reuters article about the how the mortgage crisis is affecting corporate reform efforts.

 

Gandara, UCLA professor of education and co-director of the Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA, was quoted Sunday in Arizona’s East Valley Tribune (Arizona) about English-language learning programs in the state’s public schools.

 

Heber, director of the UCLA Center for Human Nutrition, was quoted Sunday in a Los Angeles Daily News article about the relationship between diet and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.

 

Juvonen, UCLA professor of psychology, was quoted Saturday in an Associated Press article about a gay teen shot to death last month at an Oxnard, Calif., junior high school.

 

Leamer, Chauncey J. Medberry Professor of Management at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and director of the UCLA Anderson Forecast, was quoted Sunday in a Reuters article about growing interest among American investors in purchasing agricultural land.

 

Lewin, Neil Jacoby Professor of Management at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, is quoted today in a Dallas Morning News column about compensation plans for executive recruiters.

 

Mitchell, Ho-su Wu Professor of Management at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, was quoted Sunday in an Associated Press article about a spat between the two largest screen actors unions.

 

Nickelsburg, an economist with the UCLA Anderson Forecast, was quoted Sunday in a Sacramento Bee article about how the recent downturn in the construction industry is affecting Latino immigrant workers.

 

Parks, a childbirth education specialist at Santa Monica–UCLA Medical Center, is quoted today in a Los Angeles Times article about infant circumcision.

 

Pine, chief information officer at the UCLA School of Law, is quoted today in a Los Angeles Times article about a move by some Silicon Valley companies to ban laptops and other electronic devices from company meetings.

 

Saigal, UCLA assistant professor-in-residence of urology, is quoted today in a Los Angeles Times article about men seeking circumcision later in life.

 

Shulman, a senior economist with the UCLA Anderson Forecast, was quoted Friday in a Washington Post article about the Federal Reserve’s bailout of Bear Stearns.

 

Winkler, UCLA professor of law, is quoted today in a Los Angeles Times article about a Nevada judge suspended for allegedly mistreating her staff.