Asian News International reported Saturday on research by Dr. John Ringman, associate clinical professor of neurology and assistant director of the Mary S. Easton Center for Alzheimer's Disease Research at UCLA, showing that levels of specific proteins in the body begin to drop during Alzheimer's earliest stages, making them potentially useful as biomarkers to help identify and track the disease’s progression long before symptoms appear. Ringman was quoted.

 

The Associated Press, New York Times, Washington Post and Chronicle of Higher Education reported Thursday that UCLA alumna Kay Ryan had been named the 16th poet laureate of the United States. The San Francisco Chronicle and New York Sun reported on Ryan’s appointment Friday.

 

KTLA-Channel 5 reported Saturday on the UCLA Summer Humanities Institute, a program organized by UCLA’s Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies that helps motivate and prepare African American and other underrepresented minority undergraduates from across the U.S. to attend graduate school in the humanities. Darnell Hunt, professor of sociology and director of the center, was interviewed.

 

Today’s Los Angeles Times highlights research by 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, on possible links between compulsive buying behavior and major psychiatric disorders. Fong is quoted in the article and in a related Times story about compulsive shoppers.

 

A BBC News article on Saturday highlighted research by Mary-Frances O’Connor, UCLA assistant professor of psychiatry, on the addiction-like effects of chronic grief, and Naomi Eisenberger, UCLA assistant professor of psychology, on the brain’s reaction to social rejection. O’Connor and Eisenberger were quoted.

 

Today’s Los Angeles Times features a column by Dr. Linda Reid Chassiakos, UCLA assistant clinical professor of pediatrics, about her experiences as a young doctor learning how to comfort patients facing major, life-threatening medical procedures.

 

Today’s Los Angeles Times features a column by Susan Bowerman, assistant director of the UCLA Center for Human Nutrition, about the so-called “miracle fruit,” which, after being eaten, makes any sour foods consumed taste sweet.

 

Time reported Friday on UCLA Film & Television Archive preservationist Ross Lipman’s recent restoration of “The Exiles,” a 1961 film about a group of Native Americans living in Los Angeles’ Bunker Hill neighborhood.

 

The San Gabriel Valley Tribune reported Saturday on a UCLA brain-cancer vaccine program led by Dr. Linda Liau, professor of neurosurgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and a researcher at UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center. Liau and a patient involved in the study were quoted.

 

 

Arenella, UCLA professor of law, was quoted Saturday in a Los Angeles Daily News article about the jury’s decision not to impose the death penalty on convicted murderer Juan Manuel Alvarez, who caused a Los Angeles Metrolink collision that resulted in the deaths of 11 people.

 

Burdon, an assistant research psychologist at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, was quoted Saturday in a Sacramento Bee story about a parolee’s efforts to avoid relapsing into criminal behavior.

 

Herman, co-director of the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards and Student Testing at UCLA, was quoted Saturday in a Dallas Morning News article about Texas high school students struggling to pass the written-response portion of state-mandated language arts exam.

 

Milkman, professor of sociology and director of the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, was quoted Saturday in a Riverside Press-Enterprise article about how current economic conditions are affecting labor decisions between workers and employers.

 

Nickelsburg, an economist with the UCLA Anderson Forecast, was quoted Friday in a Riverside Press-Enterprise article about unemployment rates in Riverside and San Bernardino counties.

 

Orfield, professor of education and co-director of the Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA, was cited Sunday in a New York Times Magazine article about efforts by public school districts to ensure equal opportunity through economic-class-based integration.

 

Parker, clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology and a staff gynecologist at Santa Monica–UCLA Medical Center, was quoted Friday in a WebMD article about a new study that suggests that removing ovaries along with the uterus during hysterectomies may be risky for premenopausal women.

 

Sawyer, associate professor of political science and director of the UCLA Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Politics, was quoted Saturday in a Ventura County Star article about efforts by Latino groups to encourage voter participation in the upcoming presidential election.

 

Volokh, UCLA professor of law, was quoted Sunday in an Associated Press article about arguments by convicted felons that the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on a Washington, D.C., gun-control law allows them to possess arms for self-defense.

 

Wyatt, professor-in-residence of psychiatry at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, was quoted Sunday in a Detroit Free Press article about Michelle Obama’s role in changing the popular image of African American women.