Date: August 25, 2003 Contact: Chris Stanton ( cstanton@support.ucla.edu ) Phone: 310-825-2585
- - - TRANSPLANT: An article in Sunday's Ventura County Star about a successful father-daughter transplant surgery at UCLA Medical Center featured Dr. Peter Schulam, vice chairman of the UCLA Department of Urology; Dr. Albin Gritsch, surgical director of Renal Transportation at UCLA Medical Center and Dr. Jim Hu, chief resident in urology (Arts & Living, Page 1.)
Two Pounds to Go www.staronline.com/vcs/lifestyle/article/0,1375,VCS_230_2206114,00.html - - - ART: An article about artist Christian Marclay in the "California Classroom" column in today's Los Angeles Times provides a learning link from the UCLA Hammer Museum (Home Edition, Calendar, Page E17).
Not so much the music as the sight of it www.latimes.com/features/kids/readingroom/la-et-kidcal25aug25,1,3964610.story - - - ANTIBODY STUDY: An experimental study by Dr. Mark Pegram, director of the Women's Cancer Program Area at UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center, to test an antibody therapy for women with recurring breast cancer was featured Friday by the Web sites HealthDayNews, HealthCentral.com and drkoop.com. Pegram was quoted in the stories.
Study to Pit Antibody Against Breast Cancer HC
www.healthcentral.com/news/NewsFullText.cfm?id=514282 - - - STUDY: A story in Sunday's Los Angeles Times reported on a recent UCLA-sponsored research study of health care benefits at the Agua Caliente casinos. Carole Goldberg, UCLA professor of law, was quoted (Home Edition, California Metro, Pg. B8).
Panel Rejects Study of Casino Benefits www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-agua24aug24,1,2084412.story - - - ADVISER: An article in Sunday's New York Times cites Edward Leamer, director of the UCLA Anderson Forecast, as an economic adviser to California gubernatorial candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger. Leamer is quoted (Late Edition, Section 3, Page 2).
Who Is That Man Sitting At Schwarzenegger's Table? - - - Quotable:
- - - -- Gary Blasi, UCLA professor of law, was quoted in Sunday's Los Angeles Times about the Slum Housing Task Force (Home Edition, California Metro, Page B1).
- - - -- Deborah Estrin, UCLA professor of computer science, comments in the Aug. 23 issue of New Scientist magazine in an article about tiny wireless sensors, or "smart dust" (Features, Page 26).
March of the motes - - - -- Dr. Gregg Fonarow, UCLA associate professor of cardiology, comments in today's Los Angeles Times about Crestor, a new cholesterol-lowering drug (Home Edition, Health, Page F3).
- - - -- Hanay Geiogamah, interim director of the UCLA American Indian Studies Center, is quoted today in a Los Angeles Times story about Indian gambling (Home Edition, Main News, Page A1).
NASA Launches Rocket With Infrared Scope - - - -- Tom Lieser, senior economist with the UCLA Anderson Forecast, was quoted in Sunday's Los Angeles Times about the economy in California (Home Edition, Main News, Page A1).
Gloomy Portrait of Economy Ignores the State's Strengths www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-fi-calecon24aug24001432,1,6334081.story - - - -- James Q. Wilson, professor emeritus of management at The Anderson School at UCLA, commented in Sunday's New York Times about prison sentences (Final Edition, Section 4, Page 3).
