Author Archives: Edward Chiao

Monday marked the official opening for the new Institute for Cell Mimetic Space Exploration at UCLA. The joint partnership between UCLA and NASA aims to develop a “lab on a chip,” which would carry out the same complex functions of a full-sized scientific lab on a tiny chip. Chih-Ming Ho, director for the new institute […]

Do you have more than five registered e-mail addresses? How about more than three AIM screen names? Does the acronym “DC” remind you of a steady flow of current instead of our nation’s capital? Are you The Person people ask to fix their computers? According to many online geek tests, if you answered yes to […]

The social impacts of the genetic revolution are closer than we think, according to the UCLA Center for Society, the Individual and Genetics. A handful of genetics experts from around the world gathered in front of over 350 people at UCLA’s Covel Commons last Sunday to raise and explore these very questions about the future […]

Don’t look now, but Bill Gates and Microsoft Corp. have taken to UCLA’s South Campus ““ to the benefit of UCLA students, faculty, and of course, Microsoft. UCLA is signed up with the MSDN Academic Alliance, a program for technical departments in the area of computer science, engineering and information systems. As a subscriber, UCLA […]

At first sight, 22 year-old Kimberly Treebs may resemble any average student at UCLA. But there is nothing average about her. Treebs is a fifth-year mechanical engineering student and co-president of the Society of Women Engineers at UCLA. She has worked as a computer aided design specialist, founded the UCLA Running club, and has brought […]

According to a recent study, even a single drink of alcohol is enough to impair someone’s ability to reason quickly and detect errors. Volunteers in the study were given drinks and then given a computer test that required quick thinking and instinctive reasoning. Even after a single drink, changes in brain action were quickly detected. […]

One of the biggest knocks against engineering students is we don’t learn anything in class relevant to daily life. Often times, this is true. But there are exceptions. Last quarter, I was enrolled in “Electrical Engineering 131A: Probability.” The scope of the class covers the probability and random processes for electrical engineering. Yawn. But don’t […]