The Chronicle of Higher Education reported Monday, and Inside Higher Ed reported Tuesday, that UCLA political science professor Timothy Groseclose had resigned from a UCLA admissions committee, saying he suspects campus officials are engaging in unfair admissions practices.

 

The Associated Press reported Tuesday that felony charges have been brought against a man who allegedly shot at a traffic light and a building in Westwood Village Friday. A police search of the suspect and his vehicle had turned up five semiautomatic pistols and thousands of rounds of ammunition.

 

KABC-Channel 7 reportedTuesday on the increasing popularity of UCLA's vanpool service. Penny Menton, associate director of UCLA Transportation Services, was quoted.

 

The Long Beach Press-Telegram reported Tuesday on a study led by David Creswell, a research scientist at UCLA’s Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, that found that HIV-positive patients suffering from stress who practiced mindfulness meditation were able to stem the loss of CD4 T cells in their immune systems, a characteristic hallmark of HIV progression.

 

Thursday’s Los Angeles Watts Times featured an op-ed piece by Mike Rose, UCLA professor of education, about blue-collar and service workers being undervalued and ignored by society because of cultural and class stereotyping.

 

Tuesday’s online edition of National Interest quarterly featured a column by Amy Zegart, professor at the UCLA School of Public Affairs, assessing the legacy of George W. Bush’s eight years as president.

 

 

Chung, UCLA assistant professor of pediatrics, was quoted Tuesday in a Los Angeles Times blog about the California Paid Family Leave law, which gives employees paid time off to care for a newborn or sick loved one.

 

Fonarow, UCLA's Eliot Corday Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Science and director of the Ahmanson–UCLA Cardiomyopathy Center, was quoted Tuesday in a HealthDay News article about an alleged link between the cholesterol drug Vytorin and cancer risk.