Do you have more than five registered e-mail addresses? How about more than three AIM screen names? Does the acronym “DC” remind you of a steady flow of current instead of our nation’s capital? Are you The Person people ask to fix their computers? According to many online geek tests, if you answered yes to […]
Category Archives: Science & Health
Nanotechnology inspires joining of art, science
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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Conference looks at minority health
Over 500 medically-minded students woke up bright and early on Saturday, filling Bradley International Hall beyond its capacity for the university’s first-ever Minority Health Conference. The conference, “Bridging Cultures and Enhancing Minority Health Care,” was hosted by the UCLA and USC chapters of the Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association, the Student National Medical Association, […]
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 […]