When students report discrimination, the last thing they need is to anxiously wait for a response from the office meant to handle it. That seems to be the norm at UCLA, though. A guest lecturer from San Fransisco State University gave a guest lecture on Islamophobia and expressed her anti-Zionist views in an anthropology course […]
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Amid measles outbreak, UCLA needs to improve students’ public health awareness
About two decades ago, vaccinations made measles a disease of the past. But we’ve brought back the world’s most contagious virus – and it’s all courtesy of ignorance. Despite being in the information age, Americans have a distinct lack of information about the basics of science and health care. The misconceptions have run amok: People […]
Risk of alcohol-related incidents outweighs potential benefits of proposed bill
This post was updated April 22 at 4:31 p.m. Another round of drinks and a few more hours of partying can’t hurt anybody, right? But as little as two hours can make a big difference. State Senate Bill 58 aims to push last call at bars and stores from 2 a.m. to 4 a.m. Citing […]
UCLA wants to halve global depression by 2050. It should start with its students.
What happens when visionaries in science and scholarship unite with the community to solve one giant global problem? Apparently, a few vague promises touted as solutions. UCLA has a set of programs called Grand Challenges, which exist as a long-term set of projects involving faculty and students to tackle world problems ranging from sustainability to […]
Development of haptic sensors allows for physical feedback in robotic surgery
UCLA engineers developed a novel sensor that could add a sense of “touch” to robotic surgery. Robert Candler, an associate professor of electrical engineering, helped develop a haptic feedback sensor that, when placed on the tips of surgical instruments, would provide feedback on the various forces exerted on body tissues to better guide surgery. In […]
Potential treatments for brain diseases may arise from studying neurons in space
This post was updated Jan. 11 at 4:21 p.m. UCLA researchers launched brain cells into space last month in an attempt to understand a neurological condition that commonly affects astronauts. The samples will spend five weeks in the International Space Station, where they will be maintained by automated hardware. Once the samples return to Earth, […]