Going into her fourth year in graduate school, organic chemistry student Courtney Thomas regularly communicates across the globe and conducts lab experiments, hoping to one day save lives.
Category Archives: Science & Health
UCLA Health System launches groundbreaking program in limb transplants for amputees
The UCLA Health System launched a new hand transplantation program last week, one of three others in the United States and the only one of its kind on the West Coast.
Online education program OurRelationship.com to provide therapy for distressed married couples
There’s Driver’s Ed, AlcoholEdu, and even online degrees, but couples therapy?
Student group will travel to Vietnam to provide basic health care, promote education
Pierced in Steven Pham’s mind is the surreal sight of a physically disabled caretaker who drags herself around with her hands.
Researching the impact of melting ice sheet in Greenland
The first time Vena Chu drove a stick shift car was two years ago on a narrow cliff side road in Greenland, heading toward a four- or five-story-tall sheet of pure ice.
Geolocators key into birds’ migratory habits
In a mountainous, forested region of British Columbia, songbirds will arrive for the summer breeding season, outfitted with tiny devices that have been tracking their migration patterns for the past year.
SuperMileage Vehicle team engineers with green ambitions
The UCLA SuperMileage Vehicle team was homeward bound from the 2009 Shell Eco-marathon Americas in Houston when its car suddenly broke down. But the students refused to have their car towed ““ not if they could save their project first.