The New York Daily News, a Topeka Capital Journal blog, KTLA-Channel 5 and the news blog Mashable reported Tuesday on a brain-imaging study by researchers at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA that found that individuals with little Internet experience demonstrated increased brain activity after just one week of surfing the Web. Study author Dr. Gary Small, professor of psychiatry and director of the UCLA Center on Aging, was quoted in the Daily News article and interviewed for the KTLA broadcast; study author Teena Moody, a senior research associate at the Semel Institute, was quoted in the Mashable article.

The LAist blog reported Tuesday on UCLA's full-page advertisement in Sunday's Los Angeles Times urging support for animal research. David Jentsch, UCLA associate professor of psychology and psychiatry, was quoted in the article.

Online economics site VOX today features a column by Lee Ohanian, professor of economics and vice chair of undergraduate studies for the UCLA Department of Economics, arguing that pro-labor policies backed by President Herbert Hoover following the stock market crash of 1929 turned what might have been a bad recession into the Great Depression.

Today’s Forbes features an op-ed by Lee Ohanian, professor of economics and vice chair of undergraduate studies for the UCLA Department of Economics, on a potential tax credit for companies that hire new employees.

Delp, director of the UCLA Labor Occupational Safety and Health Program, is quoted today in a Los Angeles Times article about companies that appeal penalties levied by the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA).

Gates, a senior research fellow at the UCLA School of Law's Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy, was quoted Tuesday in a Contra Costa Times article about the U.S. Census Bureau's process for counting same-sex married couples for the 2010 census.

Giza, associate professor of neurosurgery and pediatric neurology, was quoted Wednesday in the Ventura County Star about the death of a young athlete from a brain injury.

Miklowitz, professor of psychiatry at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, was quoted Tuesday in a Cleveland Plain Dealer article about bipolar disorder.

 

Stout, UCLA professor of law, was quoted Tuesday in a New York Times article about Swiss bank Credit Suisse changing the way it provides bonuses to its top employees.

 

Dr. Eric Vilain, professor of human genetics, pediatrics and urology and chief of medical genetics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, was quoted Tuesday in a Washington Post article about the occasional difficulty in determining if an individual is genetically male or female.