Jing Gong traveled to a rural Guatemalan village as a UCLA student for the third and last time this month, concluding a year-long student group project to improve water access in the area. Gong, current fourth-year chemical engineering student, is one of four UCLA engineering students who embarked on the trip on June 16 and […]
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UCLA bone marrow drive to help patients with blood cancer
Through caring for her father’s leukemia, Florence Roussotte is helping match numerous blood cancer patients with potentially life-saving bone marrow donations. Roussotte is going to bring her efforts to UCLA on Friday afternoon at a marrow donor registry drive in the MacDonald Medical Research Laboratory. Roussotte, a neuroscience postdoctoral student, is organizing the event to […]
Student-entrepreneur program accepting applications
A new student-run program that aims to encourage collaboration between students interested in starting companies recently started accepting applications. The new program, called Bruincubator, was started by students in Bruin Entrepreneurs to teach undergraduate students how to work together to start a company, said Varadh Jain, a second-year mathematics and economics student. The applications will […]
Inventathon challenges students to find health care solutions
The clock struck 2 a.m. as groups of students raced through their twelfth straight hour of drawing on windows, crumpling up pieces of scrap paper and brainstorming new healthcare technologies. They hadn’t even made it halfway through the UCLA Inventathon. “We’re discovering that we can’t realistically know every possible detail about what can go wrong. […]
Inventathon gives students forum for healthcare-focused innovation and entrepreneurship
Two UCLA graduate students met a year ago this week in the midst of an annual networking week, and hatched an idea to bring operating room technology to battlefields, ski slopes and other areas prone to causing brain injury.