Britain’s Daily Mail reports today that researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have developed new camera that captures images roughly a thousand times faster than any existing conventional camera. The story was reported Thursday by CNET and Asian News International and Wednesday by BBC News and Wired. Bahram Jalali, professor of electrical engineering and principal investigator of the project, and research co-author Keisuke Goda, a postdoctoral researcher in engineering, were quoted in the coverage.

 

The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Philadelphia Inquirer and Britain’s Daily Mail report today on a study co-authored by Christopher Ehret, UCLA professor of history, and scientists from Europe, Africa and the United States that analyzed the genetic variation and historical linguistics of Africa's San people, who are believed to be the oldest human population on Earth. The Associated Press reported on the study Thursday. Ehret was quoted in the coverage.

 

An editorial in Thursday’s Stockton Record highlighted findings from a study by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research that assessed the number of Californians without health insurance in each of the state's congressional and legislative districts.

 

Science magazine reports today on last week’s campus rally by UCLA Pro-Test, an organization of faculty, staff and students formed to demonstrate support for lifesaving medical research involving laboratory animals and show solidarity with scientists subjected to harassment and violence by anti–animal research extremists. The group was also highlighted in an op-ed in Thursday’s Los Angeles Daily News condemning anti–animal research extremism. David Jentsch, UCLA associate professor of psychology and a leader of UCLA Pro-Test, and Lynn Fairbanks, UCLA professor-in-residence in the department of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences, are quoted in Science.

 

Hispanic Business magazine reported Thursday that Chon Noriega, professor of theater, film and television and director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, will provide on-screen insights and commentary for “Race and Hollywood: Latino Images in Film,” a monthlong film festival that will air on the Turner Classic Movies channel this month. Noriega was quoted.

 

On Thursday, bilingual newspaper chain EGPNews.com featured a column by David Hayes-Bautista, professor of general internal medicine and health services research and director of the UCLA Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture, on the origin of Cinco de Mayo celebrations.

 

Thursday’s Los Angeles Times featured a review of the exhibition “The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850–1900,” which is currently at the UCLA Hammer Museum.

 

Thursday's Los Angeles Times featured an op-ed by David Kaye, executive director of the UCLA School of Law’s International Human Rights Program, on the recently released Bush administration memos that provided the legal underpinnings for prisoner interrogation techniques like waterboarding and sleep deprivation.

 

 

Grob, professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences and director of the division of child and adolescent psychiatry at Harbor–UCLA Medical Center, is quoted today in an article in Canada’s National Post about the recent deaths of two teenage girls, which have been linked to a tainted batch of the drug Ecstasy.

 

Katona, associate clinical professor of infectious diseases at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, was quoted Thursday in a Los Angeles Times article about gathering information on H1N1 swine influenza online. Katona was quoted Wednesday in a Los Angeles Times blog item about asthmatic patients and the H1N1 flu.

 

Kim-Farley, professor-in-residence of epidemiology at the UCLA School of Public Health, is quoted today in a Wall Street Journal article about H1N1 swine influenza cases in California. He is also quoted today in a Los Angeles Times column on media coverage of the flu outbreak and was quoted Thursday in a Los Angeles Times article about gathering information on the flu online.

 

Kleiman, professor of public policy at the UCLA School of Public Affairs, was quoted Wednesday in a National Journal blog item about Sen. Arlen Specter's decision to switch political parties.

 

LoPucki, Security Pacific Bank Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law, is quoted today in an Agence France-Presse article about Chrysler’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing.