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UCLA, MLK Hospital Collaboration Brings Care to South LA

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UCLA Chancellor Gene Block was among the dignitaries who attended the opening of Martin Luther King, Jr. Hospital.

In a collaboration that exemplifies UCLA’s commitment to working outside of its Westwood boundaries, officials gathered to celebrate the opening of the new Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital, and the beginning of a new partnership.

The dedication ceremony took place on Aug. 7 at the new hospital, located at 1680 E. 120th St., which was built through a public-private partnership. Los Angeles County contributed $284 million for its construction and $171 million in start-up funding, but the hospital will be run by the nonprofit Martin Luther King, Jr. Los Angeles Healthcare Corporation, with its own independent board of directors.

 

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Screening, panel illuminate the life of former mayor, UCLA alumnus Tom Bradley

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A panel discusses Tom Bradley after a screening of a new documentary about the former Los Angeles mayor.

UCLA co-sponsored a special film screening and panel for the PBS documentary “Bridging the Divide: Tom Bradley and the Politics of Race”. Bradley was an alumnus of UCLA, the only African American mayor of Los Angeles, and the longest serving mayor of the city.

The screening and panel took place on Aug. 10 at the Luckman Theatre at California State University, Los Angeles.

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Assembly Member David Hadley Makes Campus Connections

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Assembly Member David Hadley met with a number of UCLA representatives and student leaders on August 5.

California Assembly Member David Hadley (R-Torrance) has been on the job for less than a year but that hasn’t stopped him from immersing himself in the issues, including higher education, which he took a closer look at during his first visit to the UCLA campus since being elected in November 2014.

The 50-year-old small business owner said he hadn’t run for office since the seventh grade, making his path to Sacramento an “unusual” one. He said he found himself worried about the next generation, including his own four children — especially in California where he believes the state has lost itself as a “place of opportunity”.

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USPTO Director Answers Tough Questions On Intellectual Property Issues

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Intellectual property law continues to evolve, and the UC system, with “shining star” UCLA, will continue to play a big part in that ever changing landscape.

Under Secretary of Commerce for Innovation and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Michelle Lee imparted those thoughts and many others during a lecture hosted by the UCLA School of Law and UCLA Government and Community Relations on Tuesday, July 28.

photo by Todd Cheney/UCLA Photography

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UCLA professor testifies to the power of space exploration

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With Pluto-fever at full fervor the past several weeks, UCLA’s own Dr. Chris Russell found himself before members of Congress to discuss findings from Dawn space exploration mission, which is exploring the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

“It’s the only spacecraft to orbit two extraterrestrial bodies beyond the Earth,” Russell noted the morning of July 28 during his testimony at a hearing of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology.    

 

The Dawn space exploration mission embarked in 2007 toward the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

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