Oct. 12 - New health center opens; zero emissions study
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Hand-painted rocks decorate the Verano Preschool’s Kindness Corner. Photo by Ian Parker
UCI ANNOUNCEMENTS AND NEWS
The new Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute opens this Thursday. Photo by Steve Zylius/UCI
Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute celebrates opening
The Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute has a sparkling new home on the UCI campus that will significantly expand its clinical, teaching and research efforts to advance evidence-informed, whole-person care. A ribbon-cutting ceremony at 3:30 p.m. Thursday will mark the official opening of the site. The institute offers spaces for innovative student instruction; multidisciplinary, collaborative research; engaging community education; and team-based, whole-person clinical care. Patients will also be offered nutrition, exercise, mindfulness, yoga and group medical classes. Local residents will be able to attend yoga, tai chi and nutritional cooking classes, as well as educational lectures and events.
Side benefits of California’s goal of being carbon neutral by 2045 will be cleaner air and improved public health for all state residents.
UCI study reveals how carbon neutrality would benefit health of disadvantaged Californians
UCI researchers have quantified the health benefits for disadvantaged state residents that would come with California reaching its goal of carbon neutrality by 2045. In a paper published recently in Nature Communications, an interdisciplinary team of UCI scientists found that while greener buildings would provide a roughly 15% improvement in health outcomes for the broad state population, elimination of greenhouse gases (and other forms of air pollution) from heavy-duty trucks would more directly benefit low-income Californians who live and work in closer proximity to the state’s ports, industrial facilities and highways.
UC NEWS AND GENERAL NEWS
New COVID-19 strain arrives in L.A. County
A new omicron strain—the BA.2.75.2 subvariant—has arrived in Los Angeles County, with three specimens so far detected there. Health officials are worried because the new strain may not respond to some of the COVID-19 treatments that have been available in the U.S. Officials and experts believe another uptick is likely over the fall and winter, and a new strain creates potential unknown risks.
EVENTS
Cyber Security Unification Workshop
Thursday, 8:45 a.m. (sponsored by Division of Continuing Education)
25th Anniversary African American Art Song Alliance Conference
Thursday, 4 p.m. (sponsored by Chancellor’s Arts & Culture Initiative)
Visit today.uci.edu to see and submit event listings. Events of general interest will be shared in UCI Digest two days before they occur.
UCI IN THE NEWS
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Mandatory reporting was supposed to stop severe child abuse. It punishes poor families instead.
NBC News - ProPublica, Oct. 12
Cited: Kelley Fong, assistant professor of sociology
Op-Ed: Nury Martinez says out loud the racism and colorism my vibrant Oaxacan community endures
Los Angeles Times, Oct. 11
Author: Miriham Antonio, law student
‘The Baron’ Review: The Trials of Turkish Hirsch
The Wall Street Journal, Oct. 7
Cited: Matthias Lehmann, professor of history and director of Center for Jewish Studies
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