UCLA E-Week features events, activities,
Idol
The Engineering Society of UCLA and engineering student groups
will be holding events for the annual UCLA Engineers Week this
week.
Today’s activities will be held in the Court of Sciences
from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and include LEGO car races, balloon tosses
and concrete bowling.
Engineering students will demonstrate their projects and host
the games.
The activities will be occurring at the same time and location
for the rest of the week.
On Wednesday night will be the Engineering Talent Show, E-Week
Idol, held on the Cooperage Stage at 7 p.m.
Seminar to focus on women’s
contraception
A free seminar on women’s reproductive health and
contraception issues will be held on April 21 at UCLA’s Louis
Jolyon West Auditorium at 6:30 p.m.
Speakers from UCLA’s Female Sexual Medicine Center and the
David Geffen School of Medicine will talk about the effects of
birth control and new options of contraception on fertility,
menstruation and quality of life.
Although the seminar is called, “For Women Only,” it
is also open to men.
To enroll, call (310) 794-9053.
Breast cancer patients sought for yoga
study
Researcher’s at UCLA’s Jonsson Cancer Center are
studying the potential benefits of yoga for patients who have
completed breast cancer treatments.
The study seeks to determine whether yoga can help women
overcome the fatigue that is a lingering side effect of
treatment.
The study seeks women between the ages of 45 and 65 who
completed treatment between one to five years ago. Patients will
participate in twice-weekly yoga classes, psychiatric interviews
and other tests.
Interested women should call Deborah Garet at (310)
267-4423.
Researchers to discuss drug abuse in Israel,
Egypt
Researchers from a project organized by the UCLA
Neuropsychiatric Institute will speak about their efforts to combat
drug abuse in Israel and Egypt on April 27.
Speakers from UCLA and the two countries will address the
cultural and political barriers to the battle against drugs.
The free program will take place at 1 p.m. at the
Neuropsychiatric Institute Auditorium.
The Institute’s Integrated Substance Abuse Programs are
funded through the U.S. State Department’s Middle East
Regional Cooperative.