UCLA Headlines March 8, 2010

 

Today's Los Angeles Times features an op-ed by Joan Waugh, UCLA professor of history and author of "U.S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth," arguing against a recent proposal in Congress to replace Ulysses S. Grant's image on the $50 bill with Ronald Reagan's.

 

A Sunday New York Times blog column featured commentary by UCLA professor of geography C. Cindy Fan on unemployment in China and dwindling job prospects for recent Chinese college graduates.

 

Today's Santa Monica Daily Press features a profile of Gail Abarbanel, founder and director of the Rape Treatment Center at Santa Monica–UCLA Medical Center. Abarbanel is quoted.

 

El Diario–La Prensa reported Saturday, and KPCC-89.3 FM reported Friday, on a report by the UCLA School of Public Health showing that most Californians have not adequately prepared physically and financially for a large-scale earthquake. Linda Borque, UCLA professor of community health sciences, is quoted in El Diario–La Prensa.

 

An article in Sunday's Washington Post about wedding planners for gay marriages in Washington, D.C., cites research by the UCLA School of Law’s Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy predicting that Washington's recent legalization of same-sex marriage could result in more than 14,000 same-sex marriages over three years and generate nearly $5 million in tax revenue. 

 

Dr. Jamie Feusner, assistant professor of psychiatry and director of UCLA's Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Intensive Treatment Program, was featured Thursday in an ABC "Nightline" segment about compulsive hoarding.

 

Stephen Aron, UCLA professor of history and executive director of the Autry National Center's Institute for the Study of the American West, was featured Friday in the premier episode of NBC's "Who Do You Think You Are," in which he helped actress Sarah Jessica Parker research her ancestors.  

 

 

Fonarow, UCLA's Eliot Corday Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Science and director of the Ahmanson–UCLA Cardiomyopathy Center, was quoted Friday in a HealthDay News article about research showing that processed meat increases the risk of heart disease and diabetes.

Habibi, a lecturer in real estate at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, is quoted today in a Los Angeles Business Journal article about Los Angeles County home prices.

Leamer, director of the UCLA Anderson Forecast and Chauncey J. Medberry Professor of Management at UCLA Anderson, was quoted Friday in a Wall Street Journal article about researchers who analyze Google searches and Twitter activity in an attempt to forecast changes in the economy.

 

Lewin, the Neil Jacoby Professor of Management at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, is quoted today in a Detroit News article about the CEO of General Motors Co. flying free for life on AT&T Corp. jets, a deal he negotiated when he was AT&T's CEO.

 

Nickelsburg, a senior economist with the UCLA Anderson Forecast, was quoted Friday in a Los Angeles Times article about newly released state and national unemployment and payroll statistics.

Wong, director of the UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education, was quoted Saturday in a Hartford Courant article about negotiations between a Connecticut grocery chain and a grocery workers union.

 

Zack, professor of hematology–oncology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and a scientist with UCLA's Broad Stem Cell Research Center, was quoted Sunday in a HealthDay News article about how HIV can "hide" in bone marrow and reemerge when patients stop taking medication.

 

Zaller, UCLA professor of political science, is quoted today in a Los Angeles Times op-ed arguing that citizens should be given time to study complicated political issues before being polled on them.