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Jan 20, 2012
Verbatim — ‘senior moments,’ getting out of gangs and chained to your desk
UCLA faculty members are quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent selection.
"’Senior moments’ that people often joke about are true."— Dr. Gary Small, UCLA's Parlow–Solomon Professor on Aging and professor of psychiatry at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, in a MyHealthDay News article on Jan. 6 on research showing that cognitive decline begins at age 45.
"People come to personal individual turning points and it's not something you can measure."
— Jorja Leap, adjunct associate professor of social welfare at UCLA's Luskin School of Public Affairs and gang expert, in an Associated Press article on Jan. 7 about efforts to help individuals escape or avoid gang life.
"This data shows that students and families highly value the outstanding education UCLA offers."— Janina Montero, UCLA vice chancellor for student affairs and interim admissions director in a KNBC story on Jan. 13 on the record number of applications the UC system received for fall 2012 admission, UCLA being the most popular campus, with 91,512 applicants.
"Education is a complex system. ... You can’t take one element or one variable out of a system and expect it to work. We need to understand how different countries are producing results, but we need to be sophisticated in how we interpret those results."— James Stigler, UCLA professor and chair of the Department of Developmental Psychology, in an Education Week article on Jan. 12 comparing American education policies to approaches taken in other parts of the world.
"The culture says if you're a good worker, you're chained to your desk the entire day. ...If you get lunch, you order it in and you eat in front of your computer."— Antronette Yancey, professor of health services at the UCLA School of Public Health and co-director of the UCLA–Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity, in an Orange County Register story on Jan. 16 about a treadmill desk to combat health risks associated with long periods of uninterrupted sitting.
