Today’s Los Angeles Times features an op-ed co-authored by Dr. J. Thomas Rosenthal, chief medical officer of the UCLA Health System and associate vice chancellor of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, on the need for policymakers to closely examine regional variations in Medicare expenditures when considering national health care reforms.

 

The Associated Press on Sunday highlighted research by Tyrone Cannon, Staglin Family Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, on the biological roots of schizophrenia.

 

A profile of art collector Dean Valentine in Thursday's Huffington Post highlighted the UCLA Hammer Museum's Valentine-Adelson Collection, a group of 50 sculptures by local artists that was donated to the museum by Valentine and Amy Adelson.

 

An article in today’s Christian Science Monitor about the search for life beyond Earth cites efforts by UCLA researchers to assess the mineralogy of former planets by analyzing the outer layers of certain white dwarf stars.

 

A Los Angeles Times blog reported Friday that UCLA professor Glen M. MacDonald, an international authority on the environmental effects of climate change and drought, has been named the new director of the UCLA Institute of the Environment. The SoCal Minds blog reported Friday on MacDonald's research on past droughts and the lessons they provide for managing resources today.

 

 

Harber, professor and chief of the division of occupational and environmental medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, is quoted today in a Los Angeles Times article about a woman who built a “safe house” free of gases, chemicals and electromagnetic fields. Harber also is quoted in an accompanying L.A. Times article about steps individuals can take to get cleaner air at home.

 

Mitchell-Kernan, dean of the UCLA Graduate Division and vice chancellor for graduate studies at UCLA, was quoted Sunday in a New York Times story about the cost of graduate education.

 

Rawson, professor-in-residence of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences and associate director of UCLA's Integrated Substance Abuse Programs, was quoted Saturday in a San Bernardino County Sun article about a criminal case involving a former San Bernardino County official who was addicted to methamphetamine.

 

Yaghi, UCLA’s Jean Stone Professor of Chemistry, was quoted Friday in a ScienceNews article about the accidental discovery by scientists of a macromoluecule that appears to trap greenhouse gasses from the air.

 

Volokh, Gary T. Schwartz Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law, was quoted Saturday in a Denver Post opinion piece about the recent controversial arrest of Harvard University scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr.

 

Zegart, associate professor of public policy at the UCLA School of Public Affairs, was quoted Sunday in a Time magazine article about President Obama's proposal to create an interagency intelligence team to handle the interrogation of terror suspects.