The Los Angeles Times, KABC-Channel 7, KNBC-Channel 4, KTLA-Channel 5 and Sing Tao USA reported Saturday on a former leukemia patient at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center who met for the first time with the diverse group of 11 blood-platelet donors who sustained her during her 12 months of cancer therapy. The reunion was the first of its kind at UCLA.

 

The Los Angeles Times reports today on the UC Board of Regents’ plan to rent a new medical facility in Santa Monica to provide more room for the teaching and health care programs of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Dr. David Feinberg, CEO and associate vice chancellor of the UCLA Hospital System, was quoted.

 

An article in Saturday’s New York Times on wireless sensor technology highlighted cell phone–based sensor applications developed by researchers at UCLA’s Center for Embedded Networked Sensing that allow individuals to measure environmental pollution and to identify invasive weeds, which can be harmful to plant and animal life. Deborah Estrin, the center’s director, was quoted.

 

Miller-McCune magazine reported Sunday on a study led by X. William Yang, associate professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, in which researchers identified a molecular "switch" that can prevent the onset of Huntington’s disease in mice. Yang was quoted.

 

The Huffington Post on Thursday featured a column by Adam Winkler, UCLA professor of law, on Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s reaction during Wednesday’s State of the Union address to comments by President Obama on the recent high court decision striking down limits on corporate political speech.

 

The Los Angeles Times reported Saturday that a federal judge has ruled that a blind woman who recently graduated from the UCLA School of Law can use special computer software for reading assistance when she takes the California bar examination later this month. The San Francisco Chronicle and United Press International reported on the ruling Sunday.

 

Ivanhoe Newswire reports today that a team led by Dr. Stanley Nelson, UCLA professor of human genetics and a researcher at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, has successfully performed the first complete genomic sequencing of a brain cancer cell line.

 

City News Service reported Sunday on a study by UCLA researchers and colleagues that found a correlation between improvements in air quality over the past decade and a reduction in cases of ear infections in children. Study co-author Dr. Nina Shapiro, director of pediatric otolaryngology at Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA and an associate professor of surgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, was quoted.

 

Idaho’s KTVB-Channel 7 reported Sunday on Operation Mend, a collaborative effort between UCLA and a Texas-based military burn center to aid U.S. soldiers disfigured in combat. Dr. Timothy Miller, chief of reconstructive and plastic surgery at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, was featured.

 

An article in Saturday’s Hindustan Times about the prevalence of the Internet in our daily lives highlighted the birth of the Internet at UCLA in 1969, when a team at UCLA's engineering school sent the first host-to-host message over the fledgling network.

 

An Associated Press article published Saturday on President Obama’s plan to repeal the tax on personal use of company cells phones cited a 2008 IRS cell-phone tax audit of UCLA and UC San Diego.

 

The Indo-Asian News Service reported Saturday that Michael Jackson’s father has filed papers in Los Angeles County Superior Court seeking the release of documents from Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center pertaining to the pop star’s death.

 

An article in Saturday’s San Jose Mercury News on clean technology cited research by UCLA’s Institute of the Environment tracking which geographical communities in California purchase the most hybrid vehicles.

 

An article in Wednesday's San Fernando Sun on new technology initiatives offered at San Fernando Middle School cites the aid and support of Center X, a UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies initiative that works to transform public schooling.

 

James Gimzewski, UCLA distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry and a member of the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA, was featured Sunday in an installment of Japanese television network NHK's "The Proposal for the Future." The program highlighted Gimzewski's pioneering research in nanoscience and nanotechnology and his collaborative work with Japanese scientists, and included footage of the CNSI.

 

Art Daily reports today that the Getty Foundation will award $3.1 million to the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center and 26 other Southern California arts organizations as part of a collaborative effort to document the history of Los Angeles art since the late 1940s.

 

 

 

Bergman, UCLA professor emeritus of law, is quoted today in a Philadelphia Inquirer article about defendants who choose to represent themselves in court.

 

Groeling, associate professor of communication studies, is quoted today in an International Business Times article about the social networking website Facebook.

 

Hovannisian, UCLA professor of Armenian and Near Eastern history, is quoted today in a Belfast Telegraph column on Israel’s lack of official recognition of the Armenian genocide.

Saguy, associate professor and chair of the UCLA Department of Sociology, is quoted today in a Los Angeles Times article about intolerance of obesity in American society.

Winkler, UCLA professor of law, was quoted Friday in a Bloomberg article on the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision striking down limits on corporate and union spending in political campaigns.