Seventeen towers have speckled the skyline of the neighborhood of Watts for the past 56 years.
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UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center led treatment research on Herceptin
As attention is drawn to the current progress of research during Breast Cancer Awareness month, UCLA medicine continues to pursue innovative breast cancer treatments.
Poppin’ up everywhere
Rising to great prominence in the 1960s, hallucinogenic drug use has created an influential counter-culture that has helped fuel its recreational use into the new century.
Especially in college surroundings where students are suddenly thrust into an independent and experimental environment, the use of such “psychedelic drugs” has continued to be a means of recreation.
According to a 2008 U.S.
UCLA Health System launches groundbreaking program in limb transplants for amputees
The UCLA Health System launched a new hand transplantation program last week, one of three others in the United States and the only one of its kind on the West Coast.
UC to evaluate use of cheaper, more convenient online courses
A proposal to explore the plausibility of online courses was recently introduced to the UC Commission on the Future.
Panelists share experiences from the Vietnam War
It was the middle of the night, 35 years ago, when 10-year-old Quan Pham and his family raced through the dark streets of Saigon toward the airfield where a plane was waiting.
UCLA Volunteer Center keeps campus involved in community projects
Highlighting the need for service around local communities and abroad, former President Bill Clinton, brought together members of the higher educational system to identify and take actions to help solve global issues areas including education, climate change, human rights and poverty alleviation at the Clinton Global Initiative University.