Category Archives: Science & Health

SARS may affect Summer Sessions UCLA is consulting with the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services to consider whether or not to prohibit students from SARS-affected countries from attending Summer Sessions. Currently, DHS has not recommended a prohibition. However, DHS agrees that UCLA should continue to monitor the situation before making a final decision. […]

For some, the word “exercise” conjures up visions of Suzanne Sommers stretching in leg warmers, or of Richard Simmons prancing around in lycra. So it’s no wonder why people don’t exercise and instead sit on their couches and read this column. There are also those students who slave away on the treadmills inside the John […]

Rainstorms are the Pacific Ocean’s worst enemy ““ thousands of pounds of pollutants are washed into the Pacific Ocean when it rains in Los Angeles. The rainwater that falls from our rooftops and cars runs onto city streets and is eventually collected into stormdrains. The stormwater then finds its way to the ocean through a […]

Scientists worked furiously in the five years it took to map the Human Genome. Fueled by technological advances and competitive debates, the study of human genes reached unparalleled heights. But once the genome project was complete and the excitement settled down, many scientists began to question how they would apply the new information to the […]

UCLA professor elected to national science academy UCLA Electrical Engineering Professor Eli Yablonovitch was elected to the National Academy of Sciences on April 29. This is the first time a professor from UCLA’s engineering school has become a member of the prestigious academy. Earlier this year, Yablonovitch was one of three UCLA engineering professors to […]

Want to lose weight? It is better to lose it all at once, right? Wrong. The human body is far too concerned about survival to allow us to lose weight too quickly. So as soon as we reduce our calorie intake, our metabolism slows down to conserve energy. Not only is it more difficult, but […]