The Associated Press and the San Jose Mercury News reported Sunday and the San Francisco Chronicle reports today on the harassment of researchers at UC campuses, including UCLA, by groups and individuals opposed to the use of animals in research.

 

Today’s Washington Post features research by Mary-Frances O’Connor, assistant professor of psychiatry in the Semel Institute and the Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, that found that certain types of chronic grief activate reward centers in the brain, possibly giving sorrowful memories addiction-like properties. The Post also featured a live Q&A featuring O’Connor.

 

The August 8 edition of the Chronicle of Higher Education reports on the naming of Franklin D. Gilliam Jr., associate vice chancellor for community partnerships and professor of political science, as the new dean of the UCLA School of Public Affairs. Diverse Issues in Higher Education also reported the story on July 15.

 

Dr. Timothy Fong, assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA and director of the UCLA Impulse Control Disorders Clinic, was interviewed Friday on National Public Radio’s “News & Notes” about various forms of addiction.

 

Research by Dr. Steven Cole, UCLA associate professor-in-residence of hematology and oncology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, on a video game that helps motivate young cancer patients to take their medication regularly is featured today in the Toronto Star and Sunday in USA Today. Cole is quoted in the coverage.

 

La Opinion reported Friday on a photography exhibit covering 100 years of Mexican musiccurated by Steven Loza, UCLA ethnomusicology professor. Loza was quoted.

 

Sunday’s Washington Post featured a column by Donald Shoup, UCLA professor of urban planning, about parking problems in Washington D.C.

 

The Chronicle of Higher Education reported Friday on a Los Angeles County Museum of Art exhibition of Chicano art co-curated by Chon Noriega, professor of theater, film and television and director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center.

 

 

Butch, professor of pathology and laboratory medicine and director of the UCLA Olympic Analytical Laboratory, was quoted Sunday in a New York Times article about the use of performance-enhancing drugs by Olympic athletes.

 

Cederbaum, UCLA professor of pediatrics, medical genetics, and psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences, was quoted Friday in a Daily Breeze article about a drug that would help patients who suffer from phenylketonuria (PKU), a genetic disorder characterized by the inability to metabolize an essential amino acid found in many foods.

 

Crane, UCLA professor of urban planning, is quoted today in a Los Angeles Times article about a local initiative that would limit commercial development in the city of Santa Monica until 2023.

 

Pincetl, a researcher at the UCLA Institute of the Environment, is quoted today in a Los Angeles Times article about a local initiative that would limit commercial development in the city of Santa Monica until 2023.

 

Gómez-Pinilla, UCLA professor of neurosurgery and physiological science, is quoted today in a South China Morning Post article about techniques that help improve memory.

 

Ramon, research coordinator at UCLA’s Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, was quoted Friday in a Chronicle of Higher Education op-ed piece about the efficacy of SAT subject tests for applicants to the UC system.

 

Rawson, UCLA 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 Daily News article about the dilemma faced by parents who wish to test their children for drug use.

 

Sander, UCLA professor of law, was quoted Friday in an Arizona Republic article about the presidential candidates’ platforms on affirmative action.

 

Sawyer, associate professor of political science and director of the UCLA Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Politics, is quoted today in a Los Angeles Times column about Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

 

Taylor, chair of the UCLA Department of Urban Planning and director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at UCLA, was quoted Saturday in a Los Angeles Daily News article about the debate surrounding the distribution of funds from a Los Angeles County transportation sales tax.