The Associated Press reported Thursday, and Australia’s Financial Standard 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.

 

Today’s Baltimore Sun features a column by Claire Panosian Dunavan, clinical professor of infectious diseases at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, about the global crisis of tainted and counterfeit drugs.

 

Today’s Sacramento Bee features a column by Michael Asimow, UCLA professor emeritus of law, and Kirk Stark, UCLA professor of law, suggesting that a temporary state tax increase may be the solution to California’s budget shortfall.

 

Spanish-language wire service EFE reported Monday that UCLA undergraduate Yecenia Olmos has been selected to receive UCLA’s 2008 Charles E. Young Humanitarian Award for her outstanding community service. Olmos was quoted in the coverage.

 

Wednesday’s San Jose Mercury News featured a profile of Clara Chu, UCLA associate professor of information studies, who is working to ensure that public libraries promote programs that reflect the ethnic and cultural diversity of modern society. Chu was quoted.

 

The Times of India reported Thursday on a new partnership between the UCLA Anderson School of Management and the Indian School of Business to operate a six-month financial engineering program in India. Bhagwan Chowdhry, professor of finance at UCLA Anderson, was quoted.

 

The Huntington Beach Independent reported Thursday on a patient who participated in a UCLA brain cancer vaccine program led by Dr. Linda Liau, professor of neurosurgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and a researcher at UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center. The patient, whose brain tumor has disappeared, walks each year to raise money for the program.

 

Wednesday’s Salem Statesman Journal (Oregon) featured a profile of author, actress and screenwriter Maria Escandon, who is an instructor at the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program.

 

 

Bainbridge, UCLA professor of law, is cited today in a Chronicle of Higher Education article about organizations calling for the dismissal of a UC Berkeley law professor whose 2003 memo on torture was seen by many as giving the Bush administration a legal underpinning for its harsh wartime interrogation techniques.

 

Cauley, an associate researcher at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, is quoted today in an Associated Press article about a deal between environmentalists and developers to preserve as wilderness 375 square miles of land in Tejon Ranch, north of Los Angeles.

 

De Leeuw, professor and chairman of the UCLA department of statistics, is quoted today in an Associated Press article about a deal between environmentalists and developers to preserve as wilderness 375 square miles of land in Tejon Ranch, north of Los Angeles.

 

Kleiman, UCLA professor of public policy, is cited today in a Chronicle of Higher Education article about organizations calling for the dismissal of a UC Berkeley law professor whose 2003 memo on torture was seen by many as giving the Bush administration a legal underpinning for its harsh wartime interrogation techniques.

 

Lifka, UCLA assistant vice chancellor for student academic services, is quoted today in a Chronicle of Higher Education article about how much weight colleges give to SAT scores in the admissions process.

 

Oakes, professor of education and director of the Institute for Democracy, Education and Access at UCLA, is quoted today in a St. Louis Post-Dispatch article about low-income students who have trouble affording a college education.

 

Taylor, UCLA professor of urban planning and director of the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies, is quoted today in a Los Angeles Times article about local residents opting for alternative modes of transportation amid rising fuel costs.