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An estimated 31,700 workers, about 81% of whom are Latino, live in the county and city zones where a smoke advisory was issued, according to new data from the UCLA Latino Policy & Politics Institute. Yoshira “Yoshi” Ornelas Van Horne, an exposure scientist and assistant professor with the UCLA Fielding School’s Department of Environmental Health Sciences, told The LA Local that the Lineage fire is exposing how little is done to “respond to public health emergencies and disasters” in communities like Boyle Heights and East Los Angeles, areas “that have so often been referred to as environmental injustice communities.” Residents and community organizations like East Yard, Ornelas Van Horne said, are “relying on their networks and their organizing power to be able to do that on the ground sampling.” Read more about UCLA in the Los Angeles Times, ScienceDaily and others. More highlights from UCLA in the News: July 6, 2026 Birthright citizenship win is huge, but worrisome | Los Angeles Times UCLA researchers estimated that approximately half of Latino children born to noncitizen parents would be affected if the Supreme Court had ruled Trump’s executive orders constitutional. “The decision really affirms that Latino kids, regardless of who their parents are ... are members of our country,” Amada Armenta, the director of UCLA’s Latino Policy & Politics Institute, told “De Los.” Amid setbacks, Trump tries reshaping elections on multiple fronts | LA Times Taken together, the administration’s efforts are unprecedented, UCLA law professor Rick Hasen said. That’s because the Constitution puts control over elections in the hands of the states and grants Congress the ability to pass laws, he said. “The president really only has authority through federal statutes that have already been passed,” Hasen said. “It’s not surprising that many courts have struck down or stopped him from doing things to try to interfere with how elections are being run.” (Hasen was also quoted by The New York Times.) Old muscle stem cells can act young again but there’s a catch | ScienceDaily A new study from UCLA, conducted in mice, found that aging muscle stem cells build up high levels of a protein that slows their ability to spring into action and repair damaged tissue. At the same time, that protein appears to help the cells endure the challenging conditions found in aging muscle. … “This has led us to a new way of thinking about aging,” said Dr. Thomas Rando, senior author of the study and director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA. Streamlining student mental health services | US News & World Report Daniel Eisenberg, professor of health policy and management at UCLA, is the founder and a principal investigator for the Healthy Minds Network, which researches adolescent and young adult mental health. He shared insights recently on student mental health. Why humans find fire so mesmerizing | Popular Science Daniel M.T. Fessler, an evolutionary anthropologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, has a theory about why. He maintains that kids who grow up building fires out of necessity actually lose interest in fire once they’ve mastered it. The fascination so many of us carry into adulthood, he argues, might just be unfinished business. “Once people get good at building fire,” Fessler says, “they’re just not as interested in it anymore.” Aide to Nev. governor leads suit seeking billions from state | Review-Journal Scott Cummings, a legal ethics professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, pointed to a provision in conduct rules that could have applications with Hutchison’s representation of the developer… “You don’t want to incentivize government officials essentially to appropriate or misappropriate proprietary government information, and then go utilize it in private representation that would then be able to benefit from your inside knowledge,” Cummings said. Groundbreaking multimedia textbook centers AAPI histories | Rafu Shimpo Under the direction of accomplished scholars Karen Umemoto and Kelly Fong, the UCLA Asian American Studies Center has launched “Foundations and Futures: Asian American and Pacific Islander Multimedia Textbook” — the most comprehensive collection of AAPI histories ever made available online and freely accessible for students, educators, and the general public. (Umemoto and Fong were quoted.) California is building a coastal species library, starting in San Diego | KPBS It takes experts like Siobhan Braybrook, an algae expert from UCLA whose left arm is adorned with colorful seaweed tattoos, to know where to look and properly identify the varied species. Early Wednesday morning, she collected a sample of articulated coralline algae. “Their entire shell is sort of made of calcium carbonate, and they’re really stiff,” she said. “They almost look like coral, that’s why we call them corallines.” Lawmaker’s plea: Don't vote for ballot measure she wrote | SF Chronicle Shane Phillips, housing initiative manager at UCLA's Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies, said transfer taxes can be thought of as one-time service fees. They are one-time levies applied to property sales. California has had these taxes for decades, Phillips said, but over the last several years more than a dozen cities have implemented their own, additional transfer tax rates. Hidden weakness in deadly cancers could spur new solutions | ScienceDaily Researchers at UCLA have identified a hidden weakness in some of the most aggressive and difficult-to-treat cancers, raising hopes for a new way to attack tumors that have resisted treatment for decades. The UCLA team discovered that cancer cells lacking RB become heavily dependent on a protein called E2F3 to survive. In laboratory experiments, blocking E2F3 prevented tumor growth through a process known as "synthetic lethality." (UCLA’s Dr. Owen Witte and Dr. Evan Abt were quoted.) Toxic warehouse fire smoke worse for LA than 2025 wildfires | California Post Michael Jerrett, an environmental health professor at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, warns that this isn’t your average campfire haze; it’s a dangerous cocktail of toxic components. Native American nations divided over 250th anniversary | USA Today During the 19th century, California’s Indigenous population plunged by about 80%, from 150,000 to 30,000, amid a government-sanctioned campaign to wipe them out, according to Benjamin Madley’s "An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873." Madley — who teaches history at UCLA — found that many people participated in the genocide, including vigilantes, volunteer state militiamen, U.S. Army soldiers, U.S. congressmen and California governors. UCLA study on air pollution post-Boyle Heights fire | KNBC-TV “The main issue is the older related compounds that are traces of something else going on. So, volatile organic compounds are our main concern, and there are lots of air toxics. But those compounds are an indicator, showing there’s something coming out right from the facility,” said Yifang Zhu, a professor of environmental health sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. Iran bidding farewell to slain supreme leader | CNN “It’s not because it's the Fourth of July and It's not because there's a wedding taking place in New York city. I think they're waiting for Mojtaba, the son, they were waiting for him to emerge, for him to basically take the reins of leadership, for the torch to be passed. That didn't happen; it still hasn't happened,” said UCLA’s Benjamin Radd.