UCLA Health was the presenting sponsor of this year’s Care Harbor clinic, which took place March 4-6 at The Reef in Downtown Los Angeles. This free annual clinic serves some of L.A.’s most vulnerable communities, and involves more than 200 volunteers from UCLA Health, including internal medicine physicians, dentists, optometrists, ophthalmologists, nurses and students. The UCLA Health Homeless Healthcare Collaborative
mobile clinic vans were also present and provided medical services to attendees who presented COVID-19 related symptoms or tested positive for COVID-19.
To help promote fair access to campus for as many people as possible, UCLA is advocating that the Metro Transportation Authority’s Sepulveda Transit Corridor line include a station on the UCLA campus and a direct connection with the Purple Line station in Westwood Village.
UCLA has received more applications than ever before for fall 2022 admission, with substantial increases among in-state freshman applicants and top-performing students from California high schools.
Last week, UCLA Professor Robert T. Teranishi testified before the House Committee on Education and Labor, Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Investment about the relevance and contributions of Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISIs) in the U.S. higher education landscape. Teranishi’s testimony emphasized the vast diversity of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, underscored the importance of the AANAPISI program for increasing college completion and student success, and spoke about the need for disaggregated student data.
UCLA is among the top producing institutions of students in the Fulbright Program, the federal government’s flagship international educational exchange program. Fulbright was established more than 75 years ago to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries.
As Ukrainian civilian casualties rise and the Russian military quickly approaches Ukraine’s capital of Kyiv, UCLA faculty with deep knowledge of the region are predicting the military conflict could continue for months and would ultimately end with some form of gains for Russia.
This event and other sessions in the series will feature the major candidates live, with a public audience, to discuss why they are qualified to be Los Angeles’ next leader.
In 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the rate of drug overdose deaths among Black Americans surpassed that of whites for the first time since 1999 — a sharp reversal of the situation a decade earlier, when rates were twice as high for whites as for Blacks, new UCLA research shows.
Researchers at UCLA Health have found that Housing First, a national program to provide housing and support for homeless persons, was effective in helping homeless veterans access housing and remain in their homes five years after it was implemented.
Most experts agree that halting climate change will require the removal of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses from the atmosphere. In this report by ABC7 News, a research team from the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering proposes single-step carbon sequestration and storage (sCS2) that would extract it from seawater. Carbon levels are 150 times more concentrated in seawater than in the air, meaning extracting carbon from the ocean is more efficient than other carbon removal methods.
The UCLA Rothman Family Institute for Food Studies will bring together faculty, staff, students, chefs and members of the community and house UCLA’s food studies minor and graduate certificate program. An anonymous $13.5 million gift will provide ongoing funding for research, curriculum and library resources, including the first endowed food studies librarian at a university, as well as hands-on experiential learning opportunities such as a new chef-in-residence program that would begin in spring 2022.
A CBS2 News report on West Hollywood residents’ reaction to the Russian invasion of Ukraine featured Zev Yaroslavsky, director of the Los Angeles Initiative at UCLA Luskin. In the 1970s, West Hollywood offered a fresh start for Jews fleeing religious oppression in the former Soviet Union after World War II. Now, the city claims more Russian speakers than any U.S. city outside of New York, the report noted. “West Hollywood became a magnet for those fleeing the Soviet Union,” said Yaroslavsky, whose parents emigrated from Ukraine earlier in the 20th century. “You had the very liberal, progressive gay and lesbian community in West Hollywood and then you had the Russian community. But over time, they
became partners, and it’s really a beautiful history they have in West Hollywood.”
