Category Archives: Science & Health

Our responsibility to discuss future biotechnology dilemnas

Last Sunday’s “Storefront Genome” conference had some of the greatest pioneering minds in bioethics and scientific public policy discussing the dilemmas that advances in biotechnology will present to society. They posed many challenging questions about reproduction, law, and humanity, to which no one has comprehensive answers. In posing these questions, the conference speakers charted out […]

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, […]

Briefs

Minority Health Conference to be held at UCLA The 2003 Minority Health Conference will be held at Bradley International Hall on Jan. 25, 2003. This event is jointly organized by the Asian American, Latino and African American medical student organizations at UCLA and USC. The conference features two keynote speakers, a panel on health care […]

Microsoft, students gain from mutual patronage

Don’t look now, but Bill Gates and Microsoft Corp. have taken to UCLA’s South Campus ““ to the benefit of UCLA students, faculty, and of course, Microsoft. UCLA is signed up with the MSDN Academic Alliance, a program for technical departments in the area of computer science, engineering and information systems. As a subscriber, UCLA […]

Female engineer faces challenges eagerly

At first sight, 22 year-old Kimberly Treebs may resemble any average student at UCLA. But there is nothing average about her. Treebs is a fifth-year mechanical engineering student and co-president of the Society of Women Engineers at UCLA. She has worked as a computer aided design specialist, founded the UCLA Running club, and has brought […]

Westerners getting the point of acupuncture

With a little help from ancient Far East remedies, the future of medicine in the West is looking sharp. Interest in traditional Chinese medicine and the art of acupuncture has increased dramatically in the last decade. Now, more than ever, Westerners are pointedly turning to these 5,000-year-old treatments. A survey from the National Certification Commission […]