OAKLAND, California, Nov. 16 -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued the following news release on Nov. 14, 2024: * * * Continues work to protect consumers from unwanted robocalls * * * California Attorney General Rob Bonta today joined a bipartisan coalition of 47 attorneys general in submitting a comment letter to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in support of its proposed rules designed to protect consumers from illegal robocalls by increasing the effectiveness of the F  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Nov. 16 -- Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-California, issued the following news release on Nov. 15, 2024: Governor Gavin Newsom today announced the following appointments: Tiffani Alvidrez, of Elk Grove, has been reappointed to the California Lottery Commission, where she has served since 2022. Alvidrez has been responsible for Strategic Initiatives for Public Sector Ecosystem Expansion since 2024. She was the Western Regional Policy Manager at Instacart from 2021 to 2024. Alvidr  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Nov. 16 -- Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-California, issued the following news release on Nov. 15, 2024: Safer roads and bridges. Clean and safe drinking water. More public transit. Upgraded airports and shipping ports. Increased climate resiliency and conservation. Cleaner energy. In just the last three years since the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law was passed and signed into law by President Biden, California has received more than $61.5 billion in funding for projects that ar  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Nov. 16 -- Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-California, issued the following news release on Nov. 15, 2024: Governor Gavin Newsom announced today that five communities hit hardest by the devastating wildfires in 2018 will receive $40.7 million in new federal aid to support community development and help communities reach full economic recovery after a disaster. The funding will not only benefit the hundreds of Californians who participate directly in the workplace training and devel  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Nov. 16 (TNSres) -- The University of California San Francisco campus issued the following news release: * * * Researchers at UCSF, UCSC and UC Berkeley use pulses of light to switch neurons off and curb abnormal neural activity. * * * In what could one day become a new treatment for epilepsy, researchers at UC San Francisco, UC Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley have used pulses of light to prevent seizure-like activity in neurons in brain tissue taken from epilepsy patie  more

CLAREMONT, California, Nov. 16 -- Pomona College issued the following news: Emrys King '25 is writing his mathematics senior thesis on the history of statistics and its connections to the eugenics movement. Faculty in art, politics, Asian American studies, neuroscience, molecular biology, English and German are all giving him input on it. King is one of 15 Pomona Humanities Studio fellows this year. The fellows--comprised of faculty, students and postdoctoral fellows--gather on Friday afternoo  more

RIVERSIDE, California, Nov. 16 (TNSres) -- The University of California Riverside campus issued the following news: * * * Banning free plastic bags for groceries resulted in customer purchasing more plastic bags, study finds * * * Regulations imposed to protect the environment may continue to have impacts even after they are repealed. And those lingering impacts include some that run contrary to the goals of the policies. Such are the findings of a study published in the Journal of Marketin  more

LA JOLLA, California, Nov. 16 (TNSres) -- The University of California San Diego campus issued the following news: * * * If widespread, the phenomenon could be boosting global warming by reducing the sunlight that clouds reflect back into space * * * New research co-authored by Duncan Watson-Parris of UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Halicioglu Data Science Institute finds that industrial pollution in Earth's colder latitudes decreases cloud cover by increasing snow  more

LA JOLLA, California, Nov. 16 (TNSres) -- The University of California San Diego campus issued the following news: * * * As drug resistance surges, scientists discover a promising new way to control the spread of this public health crisis * * * Recent estimates indicate that deadly antibiotic-resistant infections will rapidly escalate over the next quarter century. More than 1 million people died from drug-resistant infections each year from 1990 to 2021, a recent study reported, with new pr  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Nov. 16 (TNSres) -- The University of California San Francisco campus issued the following news release: * * * UCSF and University of Washington researchers developed synthetic receptors on the surface of immune cells that could make cancer immunotherapies more targeted. * * * Most cancer treatments - from chemotherapies to engineered immune cells - have a host of side effects, in large part because they affect healthy cells in the body at the same time as targetin  more

SANTA CRUZ, California, Nov. 16 (TNSres) -- The University of California Santa Cruz campus issued the following news: * * * Researchers at UCSC, UCSF, and UC Berkeley combine gene therapy with optogenetics to curb abnormal neural activity * * * By Robin Marks In what could one day become a new treatment for epilepsy, researchers at UC San Francisco, UC Santa Cruz, and UC Berkeley have used pulses of light to prevent seizure-like activity in neurons. The researchers used brain tissue that h  more

SANTA CRUZ, California, Nov. 16 (TNSres) -- The University of California Santa Cruz campus issued the following news: By Allison Arteaga Soergel A new paper in the journal Child Development shows how some aspects of family interaction among Indigenous people in Guatemala have fundamentally shifted with rapid globalization, yet families have still maintained a unique level of harmony in their interactions. UC Santa Cruz psychologist Barbara Rogoff has been working with Mayan communities in San  more

LA VERNE, California, Nov. 16 -- The University of La Verne issued the following news: LaFetra College of Education is set to launch a fully online Doctor of Education (EdD) program in Summer 2025. Building on nearly 50 years of impact, the traditional doctorate program has produced more than 10 percent of California's educational leaders since its inception in 1976. This new online format reflects the university's longstanding commitment to adapting to the evolving needs of educational profess  more

LOS ANGELES, California, Nov. 16 -- The University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering issued the following news: * * * Aftershock II is believed to be the world's first civilian-built rocket to reach an altitude of 470,000 feet. * * * By Matilda Bathurst Aftershock II, the latest rocket designed and built by the student-run USC Rocket Propulsion Lab (USCRPL) at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, has broken the international altitude record - reaching further into space  more