The Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday on the appointment of Charles E. Young, UCLA chancellor emeritus and professor of public policy at the UCLA School of Public Affairs, as the first chief executive of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. Young was quoted.

 

The Associated Press and Los Angeles Times reported Monday on an accidental chemical fire in a UCLA laboratory that left a UCLA research assistant with second- and third-degree burns.

 

USA Today reported Wednesday that football and basketball players from 54 public universities, including UCLA, had lower average scores on their college entrance exams than their non-athlete peers. Thomas Lifka, UCLA associate vice chancellor for student academic services, was quoted in the article.

 

Today’s Los Angeles Times features a review of “Oranges and Sardines: Conversations on Abstract Painting,” an exhibition currently on display at the UCLA Hammer Museum.

 

Mark Sawyer, associate professor of political science and director of UCLA's Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Politics, was interviewed twice Tuesday on CNN (1 | 2) about Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's appointment of Roland Burris to fill Barack Obama's vacated Senate seat.

 

Tuesday's Financial Times featured an op-ed piece by Roger Farmer, UCLA professor of economics and an economist with the National Bureau of Economic Research, offering advice on how to prevent the U.S. economy from sliding into a depression. Thursday’s Kansas City Star featured a column analyzing Farmer’s ideas.

 

Donald Shoup, UCLA professor of urban planning at the School of Public Affairs, was interviewed Monday on KPCC-89.3 FM's “AirTalk” about increases in parking rates in Los Angeles for 2009.

 

 

Baraff, professor of pediatrics and emergency medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, was quoted Tuesday in a MSNBC article about illnesses that surface during the winter season.

 

Bjork, UCLA professor of cognitive psychology, was quoted Thursday in a CNN.com article about the use of mnemonic devices to help memory.

 

Gabriel, professor of finance at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and director of the Ziman Center for Real Estate at UCLA, is quoted in the Jan. 24 edition of Business Week magazine about the subprime mortgage meltdown.

 

LoPucki, UCLA law professor, was quoted Thursday in a USA Today article about corporate bankruptcy cases in Delaware. LoPucki was quoted Tuesday in a Bloomberg article about legal fees incurred as part of the Tribune Co.’s bankruptcy filing.

 

Nickelsburg, a senior economist with the UCLA Anderson Forecast, is quoted today in a Los Angeles Times article about economic problems facing the entertainment industry.

 

Ong, UCLA professor of urban planning, social welfare and Asian American studies, was quoted Sunday in a Los Angeles Times story about the growth of the Korean American population in Orange County.

 

Small, Parlow-Solomon Professor of Aging at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, was quoted Tuesday in a U.S. News & World Report article about a study suggesting that low blood sugar levels may help protect against memory loss.

 

Spiegel, UCLA professor of political science, was quoted Tuesday in a Wall Street Journal article about the conflict between Israel and Hamas.

 

Volokh, Gary T. Schwartz Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law, is cited today in a U.S. News & World Report opinion piece about the debate surrounding Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's appointment of Roland Burris to fill Barack Obama's vacated Senate seat.