Students trudging home from class last Wednesday night may have been surprised to come face-to-face with a six-foot-tall molecule projected on the wall of UCLA’s Court of Sciences. Two UCLA professors ““ Victoria Vesna, professor and chairwoman of the Design/Media Arts Department at UCLA, and Jim Gimzewski, a UCLA professor of chemistry and biochemistry ““ […]
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UCLA will host symposium on health care The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA will present a health care symposium entitled “The Business of Medicine: Challenges to Professionalism” on Saturday, Feb. 8, from 9-12 a.m. in Covel Commons. The symposium will include a keynote address by Dr. Jordan Cohen, president of the Association of […]
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Q & A with James Heath
UCLA chemistry and biochemistry professor James Heath, co-founder of the California Nanosystems Institute and recently named to the Scientific American top 50 visionaries in science, sat down last week for an interview with the Daily Bruin: DB: Working in new science like nanotechnology, do you often find yourself having to describe to people what you […]
OK … so you’re in college. And with that comes certain inalienable rights, such as romping about and cavorting with attractive members of the opposite sex. You grin as you point out that you get to do so free from the watchful eyes of your parents, who are under the naive impression that you pass your […]
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Interactive art demonstration to be shown Wednesday The “Zero@Wavefunction: nanodreams and nightmares” demonstration will be presented to the public this Wednesday, Jan. 29 on the exterior wall of Young Hall in the UCLA Court of Sciences. The demonstration is a collaborative art and science project in which a viewer stands in front of a tonal […]
Experts discuss impact of genetic research
The social impacts of the genetic revolution are closer than we think, according to the UCLA Center for Society, the Individual and Genetics. A handful of genetics experts from around the world gathered in front of over 350 people at UCLA’s Covel Commons last Sunday to raise and explore these very questions about the future […]