Today’s Los Angeles Times features a letter to the editor by UCLA Chancellor Gene D. Block about recent coverage of an upcoming California Supreme Court case challenging the constitutionality of a state law that allows undocumented college and university students, including those at UCLA, to pay in-state tuition rather than more expensive nonresident tuition.

 

An article in today’s Inside Higher Ed highlights the steps taken by the UCLA student government and other student groups to address the recent conflict in Gaza.

 

The Los Angeles Times reported Saturday on a proposal by University of California officials to reduce freshmen enrollment by 2,300 for the next fall. Bloomberg, the San Jose Mercury News and the Riverside Press-Enterprise reported on the proposed cuts Friday.

 

Wednesday’s Palisadian-Post features a profile of Rita Effros, UCLA professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, who researches how stress speeds up the aging process. Effros was quoted.

 

Friday’s Los Angeles Times features a review of a piece in the UCLA Hammer Museum’s current exhibit “Oranges and Sardines: Conversations on Abstract Painting” that features a male go-go dancer on a platform.

 

Dr. Linda Rosenstock, dean of the UCLA School of Public Health, was interviewed Thursday on KPCC’s “Patt Morrison Show” regarding the historically changing role of U.S. surgeon general.

 

The Los Angeles Times reported Saturday on research by UCLA physics and astronomy professor Mark Morris and colleagues that focused on recent Hubble Space Telescope images showing 14 young "runaway" stars racing through space. Morris was quoted.

 

National Geographic, Scientific American and New Scientist reported Tuesday on research by UCLA physics and astronomy professor Michael Jura that may shed light on how planets are born. Jura was quoted in the coverage.

 

 

Aldave, associate professor of ophthalmology and director of cornea and refractive surgery at UCLA's Jules Stein Eye Institute, is quoted today in a Los Angeles Times article about the medical accuracy of various organ donations depicted in the film “Seven Pounds.”

 

Blasi, UCLA professor of law, is quoted today in a Los Angeles Downtown News article about Los Angeles' Safer Cities Initiative, which brought an increased police presence to the city's skid row area.

 

Getty, UCLA professor of history, was quoted Saturday in a Los Angeles Times story about a Los Angeles socialite.

 

Iguchi, professor of community health sciences at the UCLA School of Public Health, was quoted Friday in a CNN.com article about research suggesting that behavior problems during adolescence will more likely evolve into personality disorders later in life.

 

Leamer, Chauncey J. Medberry Professor of Management at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and director of the UCLA Anderson Forecast, was quoted in Sunday’s Boston Globe in an article about how Congress and President-elect Obama should handle the economic stimulus package.

 

LoPucki, UCLA law professor, was quoted Sunday in a New York Magazine article about bankruptcy filings in New York City. LoPucki was also quoted Friday in a Bloomberg article about hedge fund billionaire Bernard Madoff’s $50-billion Ponzi scheme.

 

Nattiv, associate professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and director of the UCLA Osteoporosis Center, is quoted today in a Los Angeles Times article about studies showing a link between the osteoporosis drug Fosamax and an increased risk of esophageal cancer and jaw bone damage.

 

Ohanian, professor of economics and vice chair of undergraduate studies for the UCLA Department of Economics, was quoted Saturday in a Los Angeles Times article about the national unemployment rate.

 

Shulman, a senior economist with the UCLA Anderson Forecast, was quoted Sunday in a Washington Post article about Barack Obama’s job creation plan.