Students in a small Ugandan village jumped from their seats to greet Harveen Sekhon every time she entered the classroom. Sekhon, a third-year human biology and society student, taught menstrual hygiene and sanitation practices this summer at Johnson Nkosi Memorial Primary School, where some members of the community are single mothers, orphans and children living […]
Category Archives: Science & Health
Biomedical library to reduce hours during seismic proofing process
The Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library at UCLA will reduce its hours until April due to construction. The Biomedical Library began construction Aug. 29 to make the building more resistant to earthquakes. The library will close at 9 p.m., Sunday through Thursday, and will not have extended hours through 10th week and finals. It was […]
Microprobes expose mysteries of the solar system, origin of life
In 2006, a NASA-owned rocket landed on Earth after a seven-year journey beyond the orbit of Mars. The rocket flew through the tail of a comet, collecting thousands of dust particles for NASA’s Stardust mission. After the Stardust landed, the UCLA Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences requested particles from the mission to study […]
Lab School, UCLA implement new vaccination policy for future Bruins
New vaccination policies will require some UCLA and UCLA Lab School students to get additional shots to continue their education. The new Senate Bill No. 277, or SB 277, enforces a mandatory vaccination requirement for most public and private K-12 facilities in the state, including preschools and day care centers. The Lab School, a private […]
Graphic: The impact of UC startups
Volunteers hearten cardiac transplant patients through art, music
Doctors, nurses and visitors bustle past one another under directory signs in the white, marbled lobby of the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. But upstairs on the seventh floor, noises settle into a rhythm of beeping heart monitors and murmuring nurses. At the cardiac care and observation unit, heart transplant patients can spend up to […]
UCLA establishes new program for international pre-health students
This post was updated on Sept. 18 at 5:40 p.m. International pre-health students can now gain experience working in a U.S. hospital through a program launched this summer. The International Health Scholar program allows international students to take health care courses and get clinical experience in the U.S. over a period of seven weeks said […]