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 […]
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A Local Star: UCLA professor leads work on Thirty Meter Telescope attachment
For Professor James Larkin, gazing through a telescope at an endless number of stars is like looking through a window to the past.
UCLA Medical Center fined for patient safety violation
The California Department of Public Health fined the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center $50,000 for failing to ensure the health and safety of a patient, according to the health department statement released Thursday. The medical center was one of 10 hospitals to receive penalties and fines by the Department of Public Health on Thursday. In total, […]
UCLA School of Dentistry receives $5M to study saliva, detect stomach cancer
The UCLA School of Dentistry recently received $5 million to develop a tool to detect stomach cancer by studying saliva, according to a UCLA statement released on Tuesday. The National Institutes of Health will fund the project as part of a $160 million initiative to address the potential of salivary diagnostics, according to the press […]
Opening Minds: Neuroscience workshops teach brain basics
Pink brains about the size of fists laid on trays in a medical school teaching lab, moments before they were sliced open by eager hands. Students clad in white lab coats and goggles poked and prodded the brains, armed with only some basic medical tools. The aspiring researchers are students aged from 12 to 18 […]
UCLA Nanoelectronics Research Facility celebrates growth over 20 years
Behind thick glass windows, scientists wearing long white coats, gloves and protective glasses work intently on bulky metal machines in Engineering IV.
UCLA chosen by EPA for toxic release data analysis project
The original version of this article contained an error and has been changed. See the bottom of the article for additional information. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently selected UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability to participate in a toxic release data analyzing project aimed at consolidating public health data and improving research. The year-long project will […]