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Jan 14, 2011

Verbatim — California’s medieval economy, technology addiction and more

The UCLA faculty is quoted every day in the media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent selection.
 
karmarkar“The terrible picture for California’s future is a bifurcated economy, where you have retirees and the wealthy elite on one level, and farm workers and a concierge economy underneath. It’s a medieval economy.”
 
— Uday Karmarkar, the Los Angeles Times Professor of Management Strategy and Policy at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, in a Bloomberg article about Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed 16-percent cut to higher education in the state budget.
 
faneslow"I was completely surprised by this discovery. I really thought we were taking a long shot.”
 
— Michael Fanselow, professor of psychology and a member of the UCLA Brain Research Institute, in a Jan. 8 Asian News International story about his research indicating that "gap junctions" among neurons in the brain may hold the key to controlling post-traumatic stress disorder and other anxiety disorders.  
 
 
gary-small“We can get addicted to being connected with other people through texting, through social networking, all kinds of programs that are very seductive to our brains.”
 
— Dr. Gary Small, professor of psychiatry at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA and director of the UCLA Center on Aging, in a Jan. 7 a PBS “NewsHour” segment exploring how digital technology and multi-tasking affect the development of teenagers' brains.
 
Lynn Stout“Conflicts are unavoidable when your business model relies on your getting wealthy at someone else's expense."
 
— Lynn Stout, UCLA professor of law, in a Jan. 10 Associated Press article about investment bank Goldman Sachs agreeing to reform its business practices to increase transparency.
 
 
areshian“We keep finding more interesting things. Because of the conditions of the cave, things are wonderfully preserved.”
 
— Gregory Areshian, assistant director of the Cotsen Institute, in a Jan. 8 New York Times article about his archaeological team’s discovery of a 6,100-year-old wine-making facility in a cave complex in southern Armenia.
 
 
fonarow“This … reinforces the notion that there's no acceptable exposure to secondhand smoke when it comes to infants and young children…. We need to protect them from exposure because it damages their lungs and blood vessels and can already manifest in harm to their blood pressure.
 
— Dr. Gregg C. Fonarow, UCLA's Eliot Corday Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Science and director of the Ahmanson–UCLA Cardiomyopathy Center, in a Jan. 11 HealthDay News article about a study showing that kids whose parents smoke are more likely to develop high blood pressure while still children.