The Financial Times (U.K.) reports today on Laurence and Lori Fink’s $10 million gift to the UCLA Anderson School of Management to provide funding for the school’s center for finance. In recognition of the gift, the center will be renamed the Laurence D. and Lori W. Fink Center for Finance and Investments.

 

Jerome Siegel, professor-in-residence of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, was interviewed Tuesday for a National Public Radio “All Things Considered” segment about the unusual traits and genetic makeup of the platypus. Siegel has studied the animal’s REM sleep patterns.

 

The Los Angeles Times reports today on the UCLA Film & Television Archive’s new series, “Visualizing the Sacred: Islam on Film,” which features films from throughout the Muslim world dealing with the many facets of the Islamic experience. Paul Malcolm, a programmer with the Archive, is quoted.

 

Judith Carney, UCLA professor of geography, was interviewed today in an NBC News report about the role rice plays in Asian cultures and the impact the current world rice shortage is having on consumers.

 

The San Diego Union-Tribune reports today on a new study by the UCLA Anderson Forecast showing that San Diego County will continue to be plagued by the crisis in the housing market and rising gas prices. Ryan Ratcliff, an economist with the Forecast, is quoted.

 

 

Mitchell, distinguished professor of public policy and Ho-su Wu Professor of Management at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, is quoted today in a San Jose Mercury News article about California’s budget crisis.

 

Wong, director of the UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education, is quoted today in a Los Angeles Times article about a former carwash employee calling for a boycott of several Los Angeles carwashes to protest poor pay and working conditions.