Transgender students can benefit from an interdisciplinary effort to address their needs, a campus administrator said at an event Monday. Saeromi Kim, interim director of the LGBT Campus Resource Center and assistant clinical director of Counseling and Psychological Services, detailed her efforts to create the Trans Wellness Team, an interdisciplinary team designed to specifically address […]
Category Archives: Science & Health
Campus Queries: How can we stick to our weight-loss oriented New Year’s resolutions?
Fifty percent of New Year’s resolutions fail by spring, according to a study by Statistic Brain Research Institute. The Daily Bruin spoke with researchers at UCLA to find out research-based ways to stick to your New Year’s resolutions. “Losing weight” is the hallmark of many New Year’s resolutions list, yet studies have shown that 80 percent […]
Donation allows for facility to improve training for medical students
UCLA Health is building a new facility to provide computer simulation and virtual reality training for medical students following a $20 million gift. The Eugene and Maxine Rosenfeld Hall will house the Center for Advanced Surgical and Interventional Technology, according to a university press release Wednesday. The center will allow medical students to train in […]
UCLA researchers suggest ways to reduce hip, knee replacement costs
UCLA researchers have found that the United States could reduce health care spending by reducing the costs of hip and knee replacements. In a study published Tuesday, researchers at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health’s Center for Health Advancement calculated that hip and knee replacements made up a significant portion of controlled health care […]
Graduate students collaborate to improve access to health care
A new initiative at UCLA’s medical school brings together graduate students from different disciplines to help improve patients’ access to the medical system. The David Geffen School of Medicine implemented the American Association of Medical Colleges’ hotspotting program in this academic year. In the program, medical students collaborate with nursing, dental, public health, pharmacy, social […]
UCLA holds Brain Awareness Week for middle and high school students
A UCLA postdoctoral researcher displayed a sheep brain in front of 30 middle schoolers while explaining the organ’s importance at an event last week. “If you get a liver transplant or a kidney transplant or even a heart transplant, you would be the same person,” said Marcus Otero, a neuroscience researcher. “If you were to […]
Latinx conference discusses representation in STEM, resources for students
This post was updated March 13 at 1:33 a.m. Joanna Navarro said at an event Saturday that she often felt out of place in her statistics classes because there were few students who shared her Latina background. “Even in my classroom, I see really stark disparities, an underrepresentation of black and brown (people),” she said. […]