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May 21, 2013

How health care is learning from lawsuits

Joanna Schwartz is an assistant professor at the UCLA School of Law, who has a forthcoming article in the New York University Law Review that shows how medical malpractice claims help play a role in improving patient safety. This op-ed was...
May 17, 2013

Say 'No' to Gang of Eight's immigration reform bill

Alvaro Huerta, a UCLA visiting scholar at the Chicano Studies Research Center, is the author of the forthcoming book, "Reframing the Latino Immigration Debate: Towards a Humanistic Paradigm," by San Diego State University Press. This op-ed was...
May 16, 2013

For a dying patient, a prescription of silence

Dr. Susan Partovi is a family medicine physician and a volunteer instructor at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine and the medical director for Homeless Health Care Los Angeles. This op-ed was originally published in the Los Angeles Times on May...
May 16, 2013

Wounded soldiers race to South Pole

Mark Wise, trained at the United States Air Force Academy as an Army infantry officer, was deployed to Afghanistan in 2009 as a platoon leader, where he suffered severe injuries when an explosive device detonated just inches away from him. He...
May 15, 2013

Verbatim — tracking our thoughts, families online and hidden viruses

UCLA faculty members are quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent selection. "We're always counting on science to tell us where we came from." David Paige, professor in the UCLA Department of...
Apr 26, 2013

'Flipping' the test gives true assessment of student learning

Peter Nonacs is a professor in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department at UCLA. He studies the evolution of social behavior across species, ranging from viruses, to insects, to mammals and even occasionally humans. His commentary appeared...
Apr 24, 2013

Google Glass and the demise of ownership

John Villasenor is professor of electrical engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. This op-ed was posted on Slate on April 23,...
Apr 24, 2013

How to really understand someone else's point of view

John Ullmen John Ullmen is a lecturer on leadership at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and overseas MotivationRules.com. Dr.Mark Goulston, is a business psychiatrist, executive consultant, keynote speaker and co-founder of Heartfelt...
Apr 23, 2013

Immigrant youth require 'scaffold of support'

Marcelo Suárez-Orozco is a distinguished professor and dean of the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. Carola Suárez-Orozco is professor of education and co-director of the UCLA Institute for...
Apr 18, 2013

What makes lone-wolf terrorists so dangerous?

Jeffrey Simon is a visiting lecturer of political science at UCLA, an expert on terrorism and political violence, and author of a newly released book, “Lone Wolf Terrorism: Understanding the Growing Threat” (Prometheus, 2013). This...
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