Members of UCLA student group bring medical aid to Philippines

After a 15-hour trip with some turbulence from a passing typhoon, Christi-Lynn del Rosario was overcome with emotion when her plane finally touched ground in the Philippines. Rosario, a third-year molecular, cellular, and developmental biology student, landed in Manila, the capital city of the Philippines. Soon after, she hopped on another plane to a small […]

UCLA professor transfers passion into more than 50 patent designs

A few bulging volumes litter the desk of Xiangfeng Duan. They are filled with more than 50 patent designs that he has accrued over the past two decades. The exact number of patents, he doesn’t bother to remember.

Duan, an assistant chemistry professor, spends his days studying atoms, molecules and objects of microscopic proportions.

Grad student works to improve water quality, access in South Central Los Angeles

Miriam Torres understands how important it is to have access to clean water. As a child, she split her time between a lush, green area in southern Mexico with an abundance of water and a poor town in northern Mexico where water had to be trucked in each day. She said her interest in urban […]

UCLA expands student opportunities with global health programs

He remembers how the main floor of the Central Hospital of Maputo in Mozambique overflowed with sick or injured children on crowded hospital beds. As a visiting volunteer from UCLA, Cameron Escovedo communicated with patients through hand gestures and broken sentences, helping doctors diagnose them despite the broken CT scanner and lack of medical tools. […]