The Los Angeles Times reports today on a unique kidney transplant chain initiated at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center that has involved 18 donors and recipients, with the latest transplantations performed Thursday at UCLA. Dr. Jeffrey Veale, assistant professor-in-residence of urology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and director of UCLA's donor exchange program, is quoted; Dr. Peter Schulam, associate professor-in-residence of urology, is cited. 

Britain’s Telegraph reports today on the upcoming 40th anniversary of the birth of the Internet at UCLA, highlighting the pivotal role played by UCLA computer scientists who sent the first host-to-host message over the network on Oct. 29, 1969.

Jorja Leap, adjunct associate professor of social welfare at the UCLA School of Public Affairs and an adviser to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on gangs, was interviewed Thursday for a live-streamed KNBC-Channel 4 News Raw segment on Thursday's gang sweep in South Los Angeles.

Ganz, director of cancer prevention and control research at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, was quoted Wednesday in a Los Angeles Times blog article about the American Cancer Society's new stance on screening for breast and prostate cancers.

Gates, a senior research fellow at the UCLA School of Law's Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy, is quoted today in an Associated Press article about the U.S. Census Bureau's decision to list legally married same-sex couples as unmarried partners in the 2010 census.

LoPucki, Security Pacific Bank Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law, was quoted Thursday in a Bloomberg article about a New York Supreme Court ruling that will force one of New York's largest property owners to pay millions of dollars in rent rebates to tenants.

Salimpour, clinical professor of pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, is quoted today in a Los Angeles Times article about the great demand for the H1N1 vaccine, which is in short supply.