National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute gave five University of California medical campuses a $12 million grant to launch a Center for Accelerated Innovations, according to a university press release on Thursday. The new center will be one of three in the country and aims to use the resources at the UC medical centers at […]
Category Archives: Science & Health
UCLA team invents microscope attachment for cell phones
Between calling, texting and updating social media, people will soon be able to use their cell phones as a microscope powerful enough to detect viruses.
Construction begins on UCLA medical teaching and learning center
Construction for a new $120 million teaching center at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine began Wednesday with a groundbreaking ceremony. The Teaching and Learning Center for Health Sciences will open in 2016 on the corner of Tiverton Drive and Le Conte Avenue. The building will help UCLA train future medical students at the […]
SHIP provides range of medical benefits to UC students
Ever wondered what UC SHIP actually covers? (Click graphic to enlarge.)
New Fiat Lux examines use of psychotropic plants
The original version of this article contained an error and has been changed. See the bottom of the article for additional information. David Shorter realized more research needed to be done on hallucinogenic plants when he befriended the Yoeme tribe in Mexico in the early 1990s. The Yoeme people were previously known for their use […]
Freshman seminar aims to teach proper nutrition, body image
Healthy eating for Eve Lahijani means having a cookie every now and then. Lahijani, a nutrition health educator at the Bruin Resource Center is one of two people who teach the fiat lux, “Cosmo Says You’re Fat? I Ain’t Down with That: Nutrition and Body Image.” The seminar, which is the only Fiat Lux being […]
UCLA engineering club moves beyond theory with projects
It started with a marble setting off a mouse trap. Step by step, the contraption made out of a chair, cardboard, and a number of household objects unwound until it reached its goal – a paper cutout of a hand high-fiving one of the team members. Merrick Campbell remembers himself and his five friends on […]