December 18, 2020
UCLA In the News lists selected mentions of UCLA in the world’s news media. Some articles may require registration or a subscription to view. See more UCLA In the News.
Kristen Choi, a researcher, nurse and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, signed up for a clinical trial of the vaccine after a recruitment advertisement popped up in her Instagram feed in August. She did not know whether she would receive an active vaccine or a placebo.
The landmark truck rule was “extremely important” for environmental justice, said UCLA environmental law professor Ann Carlson. One of the biggest health problems that poor, predominantly Latino and Black communities face is pollution from diesel trucks on heavily trafficked freeways. “To single out cap and trade as the only thing Mary Nichols has done is just wrong,” Carlson said. “There’s policy after policy after policy on both climate change and air pollution.”
Dec. 16, 2020
A Black Jamaican-born woman became the first person in the nation to be vaccinated against the novel coronavirus, flickering emotions of pride and skepticism against the backdrop of the federal government’s rollout of vaccines against a virus that’s killed over 300,000 Americans.
Sandra Lindsay, a critical care nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, told Washington Post reporters shortly after receiving her shot that it was important for her as a Black woman to get the vaccine. She says she wanted to send a message to marginalized groups about trusting science despite the country’s checkered past of using enslaved Black women for medical advancement and deceiving poor Black men about medical care.
Big Data, Big Research, Hardball University Politics, the Baptism of the Dead, and the Utah Autism Whistleblower
By Judith Pinborough-Zimmerman and Mark Blaxill
Like it or not. Legal or not. Government collects, maintains, and even shares and sells massive amounts of your personal data. This data collection starts before you are born and continues after you die. Government knows your name(s), social security number, age, birthdate, if and whom you married, and when. Were you ever divorced? Do you have children? What are your unchanging physical characteristics, like your height and eye color? Government likely has several photos at different ages, and possibly even your DNA and fingerprints. Government knows how much you weighed at birth and how much you weighed when you got your first driver’s license. They know what kind of student you were, if you received special education services, and if you attended public schools, what your grade point average was. Th
December 15, 2020
UCLA In the News lists selected mentions of UCLA in the world’s news media. Some articles may require registration or a subscription to view. See more UCLA In the News.
J.R. DeShazo, director of the Luskin Center for Innovation at UCLA, remembers when Arnold Schwarzenegger, the former governor, vowed to revamp California’s highways as “Hydrogen Highways” in 2004. The infrastructure to support hydrogen fuel for transportation never materialized. DeShazo doubts it ever will.
“There are a considerable number of possibilities for filling constitutional offices that no governor in the history of the state has had,” said Zev Yaroslavsky, director of the Los Angeles Initiative at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. “So, I would say that Gov. Newsom’s fingerprints or imprint will be on state politics … and national politics to some degree,” he continued. “It’s an unprecedented opportunity and responsibility that has fallen in the governor
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– Chair and board member Michael Wolf Jensen will not stand for re-election at 2021 Annual General Meeting –
– Board of Directors intends to appoint Dr. Albert Cha to serve as Chair after 2021 AGM –
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Dec. 14, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Ascendis Pharma A/S (NASDAQ:ASND), a biopharmaceutical company that utilizes its innovative TransCon™ technologies to create product candidates that address unmet medical needs, today announced a planned board transition at the 2021 Annual General Meeting (AGM).
Michael Wolf Jensen informed the Board of Directors (the Board) that he will not stand for re-election to the Board at the next Annual General Meeting. Mr. Jensen will continue in his role as Senior Vice President (SVP) and Chief Legal Officer of Ascendis. The Board intends to appoint current board member, Dr. Albert Cha, to serve as Chair upon expiration of Mr. Jensen s term. Mr. Jensen has served as Director and Chair of Ascendis Pharma since January 20