Working on ways to update an integral facility, graduate students and professors in the astronomy program at UCLA are actively fund-raising for a building that is becoming increasingly in need of repair. Offering free shows to students every week, the UCLA planetarium has been a valuable tool, educating UCLA students and the surrounding community since […]
Category Archives: Science & Health
Breakthrough in creating stem cells
In a technical development that may aid stem cell researchers around the world, a group of South Korean scientists announced that they have sped up the creation of human embryonic stem cells. The scientists were able to grow 11 new batches of human embryonic stem cells that were a genetic match to their donors, a […]
Science courses bloom in botanical garden
Many South Campus Bruins have passed by it a handful of times and most life sciences students will have taken at least one trip into its heart in their four years at UCLA. The Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden is not only home to UCLA’s largest living plant collection, but now, in its 75th year, […]
Student engineers develop program for online class discussions
Students wishing to avoid crammed office hour sessions and having to scour Powell to find a room for their study group to meet will soon have a convenient alternative. A small group of students in UCLA’s chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery are developing CourseChat, an instant messaging service to be incorporated in the […]
Public diagnosis
The Parents’ Right to Know measure is likely to appear on the next special election ballot, a measure which would create a state constitutional amendment requiring physicians to notify a parent or guardian 48 hours before they perform an abortion on an unmarried minor, and would impose civil penalties on individuals who coerce a minor […]
Hunting for clues to degenerative disease
Huntington’s disease is one of many that continue to present unanswered questions to researchers. UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute researchers, however, are beginning to make strides in understanding the mechanism by which the perplexing disease manifests itself among brain cells. The theory to date has been that a genetic mutation in the “Huntington protein” results in an […]
Scientists at UCLA astrobiology symposium to probe “˜life among the stars’
Scientists are bringing the search for life beyond the bounds of our blue, green planet right into UCLA’s backyard today. Schoenberg Music Hall will resonate with the voices of inquisitive community members as UCLA welcomes scientists from all over the country for the 16th annual Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of […]