IN THE NEWS:

American Girls and STDs
Gail Wyatt, professor of psychiatry at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA and director of the UCLA Sexual Health Program, was interviewed Tuesday on KTTV-Channel 9 about a recent Centers for Disease Control study showing that 25 percent of American teenage girls are infected with at least one of four common sexually transmitted diseases.

Networking Sites Promote Youth Volunteerism
In an article today about youth activism and the Internet, USA Today highlights research by John Pryor, director of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program at UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute, on the number of college freshmen engaged in volunteerism. Robert Rhoads, UCLA professor of education, was quoted in the article.

QUOTABLE:

Gabriel Danovitch
Danovitch, medical director of UCLA’s kidney transplant program, is quoted today in Wall Street Journal article about a movement to give kidney transplants to younger patients rather than older patients who have been on waiting lists longer.

Gary Gates
Gates, a senior fellow at the UCLA School of Law's Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy, is quoted today in a Sacramento Bee article about gay and lesbian retirement communities.

Avanidhar Subrahmanyam
Subrahmanyam, UCLA’s Goldyne and Irwin Hearsh Professor of Money and Banking at the Anderson School of Management, is quoted today in a Money Magazine column about remaining calm while the stock market slides.