Britain's Guardian and Australia's The Age report today that a team led by Edson Smith, a computing resource manager with the UCLA Department of Mathematics, has discovered the largest known prime number, which has nearly 13 million digits. The discovery was reported Saturday by the Associated Press, the Los Angeles Times and United Press International and Sunday by Science News, All Headline News and Britain's BBC News, Telegraph, Metro and In the News. Smith was quoted in the coverage.

 

HealthDay News and the Los Angeles Times' health blog reported Sunday on research led by Dr. Arthur Brody, professor of psychiatry at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, that showed that so-called light cigarettes deliver nearly as much nicotine to the brain as regular cigarettes. The research was also reported Saturday by Asian News International and 87 CBS local affiliates.

 

An article in Saturday's London Times about controlling the desire to spend money highlights research by Wendy Liu, assistant professor of marketing at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, that found that individuals who were interrupted while considering purchases became less price-conscious in their decision-making process.

 

Thursday’s San Jose Mercury News featured an opinion piece by Kent Wong, director of the UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education, about state legislation that would give undocumented students greater access to college financial aid.

 

The Sept. 22 issue of Newsweek highlights a study led by Dominick Frosch, UCLA assistant professor of general internal medicine and health services research, that examined the placement of pharmaceutical products in prime time television programs. Frosch was quoted.

 

The Orange County Register reported Saturday on an annual classic-car show in Orange County, Calif., that offers free prostate screenings for men and raises money for UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.

 

New America Media on Friday featured an interview with UCLA sociology professor Min Zhou about the community resources Chinese American and Korean American families rely on to support their children's education.

 

Dr. Nanette DeBruhl, UCLA associate clinical professor of radiology, was interviewed Friday on KTTV-Channel 11 about screening and treatments for breast cancer.

 

A New York Times blog reported Sept. 22 on a study of nighttime satellite imagery by UCLA geographers that suggests that ethnic cleansing of Sunnis by Shiites, rather than the 2007 U.S. troop surge, was responsible for decreases in violence in Baghdad.

 

City News Service reported Saturday on a study by UCLA law professor Gary Blasi that examined whether Los Angeles' Safer Cities Initiative, which brought an increased police presence to the city's skid row area, had an effect on serious, violent crime. Blasi was quoted.

 

The Associated Press reported Sunday on a study by the Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA that examined the way in which the state of Kentucky prepares of black and white students for college.

 

 

Boytner, director of international research at the UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, is quoted today in a Los Angeles Times article on the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles.

 

Brown, professor at the UCLA School of Public Health and director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, was quoted Saturday in a San Jose Mercury News article about efforts by California lawmakers to reform the state's health care system.

 

Berglas, a researcher with the Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, was quoted Friday in a USA Today article about how the current financial crisis is affecting people's stress levels.

 

Edwards, Henry Ford II Professor of International Management at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, is quoted today in a Miami Herald article about how the current financial crisis is affecting the economies of Latin American countries.

 

Fong, assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA and director of the UCLA Impulse Control Disorders Clinic, is quoted today in a Philadelphia Inquirer article about a plan to move a casino from South Philadelphia to the city's Chinatown.

 

Habibi, a lecturer in real estate at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, is quoted in a Sept. 29 Los Angeles Business Journal article about how the current financial crisis is affecting the office-space market in Los Angeles.

 

Leamer, Chauncey J. Medberry Professor of Management at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and director of the UCLA Anderson Forecast, was quoted Friday in a Reuters article about U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's banking background.

 

Ohanian, professor of economics and vice chair of undergraduate studies for the UCLA Department of Economics, was quoted Sunday in a Los Angeles Times article about how taxpayers will be affected by the Bush administration's proposed $700 billion economic bailout package.

 

Shulman, a senior economist with the UCLA Anderson Forecast, was cited Sunday in a San Diego Union-Tribune column about short-sales in the real estate market.