Author Archives: Eileen Chen

Many South Campus Bruins have passed by it a handful of times and most life sciences students will have taken at least one trip into its heart in their four years at UCLA. The Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden is not only home to UCLA’s largest living plant collection, but now, in its 75th year, […]

Soon bread bags, cereal boxes and other food packaging materials will be changing their look. The logos, packaging material and nutrition facts will most likely be the same ““ but replacing the old, familiar food pyramid will be the new MyPyramid. Though it was hailed as the new interactive, daily personalized food guidance system, the […]

Across the state there are a number of unique and extensive natural reserves which house diverse flora and fauna, and groups of researchers studying subjects from archaeology to biology to ecology ““ all managed by the University of California. Of these natural reserves, UCLA manages one called Stunt Ranch which is nestled in the Santa […]

A report reviewing five willed body programs across the University of California system was recently released by Navigant Consulting, Inc., per request of the UC Regents. Included among the proposed changes to the willed body programs is a call for stricter background checks. The firm’s report stated key gaps within the program’s infrastructure and human […]

Whoever said biological research is cut and dry has not set up pitfall traps to catch lizards in Cameroon or tagged them using tattoos in the Bahamas. The graduate students of the Center for Tropical Research have studied all over the world, with all types of people and with all different species. Yet all the […]

Somewhere in Cameroon and 25 to 30 kilometers in from the nearest dirt road is a spot once inhabited by the lone tent of Tom Smith, director of the UCLA Center for Tropical Research. For more than a decade, Smith made his second home in a tent studying birds as models for ecological biodiversity and […]