A new engineering facility geared toward green energy and nanotechnology research will open on Thursday after undergoing construction since 2012. The 60,000-square-foot facility represents phase one of Engineering VI, which will replace the old Engineering 1A building that was knocked down in 2011 to make room for a more modernized facility. The phase one building […]
Category Archives: Science & Health
Archaeologist Hans Barnard excavates, educates using STEM background
Webs of wire line the walls of UCLA’s Pasarow Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, a brightly lit room stuffed with chemical machines. An archaeologist in a pinstriped lab coat stands in the middle of the room, cradling his homemade Egyptian pot in one hand and test tubes of finely ground pottery in the other. Hans Barnard tilts […]
Patient safety scores low at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center’s patient safety scores severely lag behind those of comparable institutions, particularly because of preventable incidents such as post-surgery infections and dangerous objects left in patients, according to a hospital safety group. In 2012, The Leapfrog Group gave the center an F rating in patient safety, which came in stark contrast […]
We Care collects feminine hygiene products for homeless women in need
Janelle Cohen sat on the floor of her apartment surrounded by scrapbook paper, index cards, old ribbon, markers and 14 boxes of feminine hygiene pads last week, making her first packages for We Care, a feminine care product drive for Los Angeles women in homeless shelters. The fourth-year theater student distributed her first batch of […]
FDA advises continued use of medical device linked to superbug outbreak
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration advised hospitals Wednesday to continue using Olympus Corp. of Americas duodenoscopes, even though they were linked to the recent superbug outbreak at UCLA and are not currently FDA-approved for sale. Without the device, hospitals would not be able to meet the clinical demand for 500,000 annual U.S. endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography […]
UCLA study finds link between Down syndrome and premature aging
UCLA researchers recently conducted a study showing that Down syndrome can accelerate aging throughout the body. Using an epigenetic clock that tracks chemical reactions to measure the ages of different tissues in the body, the researchers found that the biological ages of the brain tissue and blood tissue in people with Down syndrome are much […]
Bruins make dental procedures affordable for student veterans, foster youth
Brian Lehigh shadowed dentists at a local veteran’s hospital several years ago to explore his future specialties. While volunteering, he met patients who inspired him to mesh his career with veteran’s affairs. “They (had) gone through a lot and (were) in very good spirits,” he said. Despite suffering from ailments such as heart conditions, Type […]