Janet Tomiyama is featured in LA Times

Study states that BMI mislabels 54 million Americans as 'overweight' or 'obese' http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-bmi-does-not-measure-health-20160204-story.html

Janet Tomiyama is featured in EurekAlert!

Tomiyama suggests that the BMI is not an accurate indicator of healthiness, as even obese people can be very healthy.   http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/uoc--dub020316.php

Ron Brookmeyer’s research featured in Detroit Newstime

Ron Brookmeyer's research featured in the Detroit Newstime http://www.detroitnewstime.com/regional/116390-by-2050-106-million-people-will-be-diagnosed-with-alzheimer-s.html  

Patrick Heuveline research profiled in Daily Bruin

Patrick Heuveline studies the impact of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. http://dailybruin.com/2016/01/22/professor-studies-impact-of-khmer-rouge-regime-in-cambodia/

Ron Brookmeyer research featured in UCLA Newsroom

Ron Brookmeyer's research on Alzheimer's disease exhibits that the increasing average life span leads to the increasing number of those with Alzheimer's disease, suggesting that the future will have a greater amount of people with Alzheimer's…

Robert Mare’s work is quoted in the New York Times

,
Robert Mare's paper " Educational Homogamy in Two Gilded Ages: Evidence from Intergenerational Social Mobility Data" is quoted in the New York Times http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/12/27/upshot/marriages-of-power-couples-reinforce-income-inequality.html?rref=upshot&smid=fb-nytupshot&smtyp=cur&referer=http://m.facebook.com  

Till von Wachter featured in the New York Times

,
Till von Wachter featured in the New York Times; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/04/business/economy/economists-take-aim-at-wealth-inequality.html  

Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez featured in Ars Technica

CCPR affiliate Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez is featured in an Ars Technica article about how the drug war in Mexico has led to higher mortality rates. Beltrán-Sánchez notes that while diabetes is one of the highest reasons for mortality in Mexico,…

Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez featured in UCLA Newsroom

CCPR affiliate Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez is featured in the UCLA Newsroom article about how Mexico's high murder rate leads to a decrease in men's life expectancy: http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/mexicos-murder-rate-has-led-to-decrease-in-mens-expectancy-ucla-led-study-shows

Jacob Foster’s research is featured in current issue of Nature

Jacob Foster's recent paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences is featured in an editorial in the current issue of Nature. You can access it here:  http://chronicle.com/article/For-Researchers-Risk-Is-a/234437/?key=-OjC2ldn9fuXiR-8FkegaZaTnqquq5cH7Bs1toBr8nBVc1A1QWNMNXluczVEbDctcm5tWC1QS19QbGFLVlJPeEJmV2JVRWdMd3ZJ