Thursday’s “Match Day” event, at which UCLA’s fourth-year medical students learned where they had been accepted for residencies, was covered today by the Los Angeles Daily News and Thursday by KPCC-89.3 FM, KTLA-Channel 5 and KABC-Channel 7. Dr. Neil Parker, senior associate dean for student affairs at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, was quoted in the coverage.

 

Thursday’s edition of Scientific American highlighted efforts by UCLA’s Center for Embedded Networked Sensing to set up a wireless data collection and analysis system that will help scientists study the Costa Rican rainforest. Phillip Rundel, UCLA professor of ecology and environmental biology, was quoted.

 

Michael Intriligator, UCLA professor emeritus of economics, political science and public policy, was interviewed Wednesday on KPCC-89.3 FM’s “AirTalk” about the future of the U.S. military effort in Iraq and where the presidential candidates stand on the war.

 

 

Sood, assistant professor of marketing at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, was quoted Tuesday in an Orange County Register article about the Orange County Board of Supervisors renaming several county agencies with the “O.C.” brand made famous by a recent television show.