A study led by UCLA psychology professor Jaana Juvonen that found that nearly three in four teenagers had been bullied online during a recent 12-month period and that only one in 10 reported such cyber-bullying incidents to parents or other adults was reported Friday by Salon, the Times of India and Medical News Today and Saturday by CNET.

 

The Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported Friday that a team led by Edson Smith, a computing resource manager with the UCLA Department of Mathematics, had discovered the largest known prime number, which has nearly 13 million digits. UCLA math professor and Fields Medal winner Terrence Tao, who holds the James and Carol Collins Chair in the College of Letters and Science, was quoted in the story.

 

In articles Sunday about upcoming crime-related state ballot measures, the San Francisco Chronicle and Orange County Register cited a study by UCLA's Integrated Substance Abuse Programs that examined 2000's Proposition 36, which gave certain drug offenders a treatment-based alternative to prison. The study was also cited Saturday in a San Jose Mercury News article.

 

Gov. Cuts Cash for UCLA Labor Program

The Contra Costa Times reported Thursday that California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger had vetoed funding for the UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education in this year's state budget.

 

City News Service reported Saturday on the development by UCLA electrical engineering professor Bahram Jalali and colleagues at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science of a bar code reader that is nearly a thousand times faster than any device currently in use. Keisuke Goda, a UCLA postdoctoral fellow and co-investigator on the research, was quoted.

 

An article in today’s Des Moines Register about Iowa’s campaign finance disclosure laws highlights the work of the nonpartisan Campaign Disclosure Project, a joint initiative of the UCLA School of Law, the Center for Governmental Studies and the California Voter Foundation that analyzes and ranks campaign disclosure laws in all 50 states.

 

Daniel J.B. Mitchell, distinguished professor of public policy and Ho-su Wu Professor of Management at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, was interviewed Friday on CNN’s “The Situation Room” about the California state budget crisis.

 

The Orange County Register reported Thursday on fundraising efforts to help a young patient from Zimbabwe who underwent reconstructive surgery at UCLA's medical center after his face was disfigured by a landmine. Dr. Keith Blackwell, UCLA professor of head and neck surgery, and Dr. Babak Azizzadeh, UCLA assistant clinical professor of facial plastic surgery, were cited.

 

 

Gandara, professor of education and co-director of the Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA, is quoted today in a New America Media opinion piece about the presidential candidates’ education platforms.

 

Goff, UCLA assistant professor of psychology, was quoted Saturday in a New York Times op-ed piece about unconscious racial prejudice.

 

Haselton, UCLA associate professor of communications studies and psychology, was quoted Friday by New Scientist magazine and today by Asian News International about new research on why women are sometimes more attracted to intelligent men than physically attractive but less intelligent men.

 

Leamer, Chauncey J. Medberry Professor of Management at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and director of the UCLA Anderson Forecast, was quoted Saturday in a Los Angeles Times article about the city of Los Angeles' potential $400 million budget deficit. Leamer was also quoted Saturday in a Los Angeles Times article about the rising U.S. unemployment rate.

 

Lewin, Neil Jacoby Professor of Management at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, was quoted Saturday in a Washington Post article about provisions in Congress' newly approved $700 billion economic bailout package that aim to regulate executive compensation.

 

Mayer, professor of medicine, digestive diseases and physiology and director of the UCLA Center for Neurovisceral Sciences and Women's Health, was quoted Sunday in a Sacramento Bee article about referred pain — pain felt in one area of the body that is caused by a problem in another.

 

Sears, a lecturer at the UCLA School of Law and executive director of the school’s Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy, was quoted Saturday in a Bakersfield Californian article about the debate surrounding same-sex marriage.

 

Volokh, UCLA professor of law, was quoted Friday in a Riverside Press-Enterprise article outlining the duties of the U.S. vice president.

 

Zegart, professor of public policy at the UCLA School of Public Affairs, was quoted Saturday in a Congressional Quarterly Politics article about the next president and the U.S. intelligence community.