Alex Hall stood at the podium as he pointed to a graph showing two different scenarios of temperature: one accounting for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and another factoring in no reductions.
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UCLA student’s blog chronicles journey before, after double mastectomy
In the evenings when her husband was sleeping, she would talk to herself to prepare for the procedure. Though she was nervous about the decision she was making, she knew it could potentially change her genetic fate. Rachel Stone, a graduate student in the UCLA School of Nursing’s Masters Entry Clinical Nurse program, underwent a […]
Professor creates improv class to aid dental students in workplace
Wearing scrubs and closed-toe shoes, two students awaited their performance, assuming character in the middle of the room. One pretended to be an intimidating boss and the other paced around the room as a worried office assistant as other students giggled from the sidelines. After a day of seeing patients, the nine students sat back […]
Inventathon competition inspires development in healthcare problems
Glass walls covered with colorful graphs and business models divided the teams as the members typed furiously on their computers, developing their solutions to one of six proposed healthcare problems. Eighteen hours into the 24-hour event, participants scribbled on the walls with Expo markers as they refined their products, which addressed medical challenges such as […]
UCLA professor’s research on suicide aims to save lives
About five years ago, one of Mark Kaplan’s colleagues – a well-liked professor and scholar – committed suicide. Though Kaplan had been researching suicide for 17 years, his colleague’s death was the first time he was personally affected by the event. “It was an incident that was very touching to me,” said Kaplan, a professor […]
UCLA, USC, Caltech receive joint grant to foster tech entrepreneurs
UCLA, USC and Caltech will receive a three-year, $3.5 million joint grant from the National Science Foundation in the coming months to run programs for entrepreneurial education, the foundation announced last week. The grant comes from Innovation Corps, also called I-Corps, an initiative of the NSF established in 2011. The funding, which the universities will […]
Newly developed biosensor can monitor post-surgery disorders
Just as a stomach grumble can indicate hunger, some vibrations of the intestine – many undetectable to the human ear – can indicate whether a person is ready to be fed. Over the past two and a half years, UCLA researchers have developed a device, called an AbStats biosensor, that detects these sounds. The biosensor […]