The Los Angeles Times and the Los Angeles Daily News report today, and KTTV-Channel 11, KABC- Channel 7 and a Los Angeles Times blog reported Tuesday, on UCLA's first-ever Volunteer Day, during which 4,300 UCLA freshmen and transfer students and hundreds of faculty, staff, alumni and older undergraduates visited schools, hospitals, parks and other sites across Los Angeles to perform acts of public service. Chancellor Gene Block and several student volunteers were quoted in the coverage.

 

A Time magazine online article published today about medical students' conduct on blogs and social networking websites references focus groups and a task force organized at UCLA by Dr. Neil Parker, senior associate dean of student affairs at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, to help devise guidelines students can follow when making decisions about what to post online. Paker is quoted.

 

Today’s LiveScience features an interview with Bruce Dunn, professor of materials science and engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, about his approach to research and his work developing the next generation of batteries, fuel cells and capacitors, including a battery powered entirely by sugar.

A Monday Los Angeles Times column on the 40th anniversary of the birth of the Internet at UCLA highlighted the pivotal role played by Leonard Kleinrock, UCLA distinguished professor of computer science, who developed the theories and technologies that made the Internet possible.

 

An article in today's Wall Street Journal about a six-number combination that won twice in a row in Bulgaria's lottery cites research conducted in 2004 by Don Ylvisaker, UCLA professor emeritus of math and statistics, on the most popular six-number sets entered into California's Super Lotto contest. Ylvisaker is quoted.

 

Fonarow, UCLA's Eliot Corday Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Science and director of the Ahmanson–UCLA Cardiomyopathy Center, was quoted Monday in a HealthDay News article about research indicating that individuals with diabetes and heart disease are at greater risk of a heart attack if they get the flu.

 

Pegues, UCLA professor of clinical medicine and an epidemiologist at Ronald Regan UCLA Medical Center, is quoted today in a Santa Monica Daily Press article about protecting against seasonal and H1N1 influenza.

 

Rubin, UCLA assistant clinical professor of infectious diseases and an epidemiologist at Santa Monica–UCLA Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital, is quoted today in a Santa Monica Daily Press article about protecting against seasonal and H1N1 influenza.

 

Wayne, UCLA professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, is quoted today in a Philadelphia Inquirer article about an evolutionary biologist who was recently awarded a MacArthur "genius" grant.