The Los Angeles Times and Associated Press reported today that the family of a UCLA staff research assistant who died from injuries received in an accidental laboratory fire is criticizing the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health investigation and asking for tougher sanctions against the campus.

 

The Whittier Daily News reported Saturday on a Pico Rivera resident who recently donated a kidney to a stranger as part of a transplant chain started at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. Dr. Jeffrey Veale, assistant professor-in-residence of urology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and director of UCLA's paired-donation program, was quoted.

 

Sunday’s Financial Times reported on the appointment of Jim Stengel, former global marketing officer of Procter & Gamble, as an adjunct marketing professor at UCLA Anderson School of Management. Judy Olian, dean of the Anderson School and UCLA's John E. Anderson Professor of Management, and Sanjay Sood, assistant professor of marketing at the Anderson School, were quoted.

 

An article in today's Los Angeles Times about health insurance options for recent college graduates discusses a time-limited policy offered by UCLA for graduating students.

 

BusinessWeek.com today reports on UCLA Anderson School’s method of encouraging potential students to submit application essays in audio format.

 

The Los Angeles Times today reviews a recent UCLA Live performance at Royce Hall by musician Goran Bregovic and his 20-member Wedding & Funeral Music Orchestra.

 

 

Appelbaum, research director for the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, was quoted in a Los Angeles Times article Saturday about how men are losing jobs in disproportionate numbers during the current economic crisis.

 

Goldstein, director of the clinical dental center at the UCLA School of Dentistry, commented Sunday in the Los Angeles Times about discount oral care for patients without insurance.

 

Mitchell, professor emeritus at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and distinguished professor of public policy at the UCLA School of Public Affairs, comments today in a New York Times story about California’s budget woes.

 

Nickelsburg, a senior economist with the UCLA Anderson Forecast, was quoted Saturday in the San Diego Union-Tribune in an article about California's rising unemployment rate.

 

Pardridge, UCLA professor of endocrinology, is quoted today in a Boston Globe article about efforts by scientists to find new methods of delivering drugs to the brain.

 

Volokh, Gary T. Schwartz Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law, is quoted today in Britain’s Guardian in an article about recently released government documents that show an effort by the FBI to block the landmark 1972 porn film “Deep Throat.”

 

Williams, clinical program coordinator for the Mind-Body Medicine Group for the UCLA Division of Head and Neck Surgery, was quoted in the July edition of Ladies Home Journal in a story about the use of hypnosis to counter headaches, irritable bowel syndrome and other ailments.