The transition to online classes has been a mixed bag for Will Higbie, a third-year aerospace engineering student. Higbie has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by difficulty regulating attention. Read more...
Photo: Students with disabilities face unique challenges adjusting to online education. In a few ways, however, the change has made things easier.(Daily Bruin file photo)
Two UCLA-based student organizations are working together to 3D print personal protective equipment, or PPE, for local hospitals across California, New York and Rhode Island. The novel coronavirus pandemic has caused shortages of PPE for health care professionals across the nation, leaving medical workers without the necessary protection or having to reuse PPE. Read more...
Photo: Two UCLA student organizations are working to design and 3D print personal protective equipment in light of shortages arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. (Courtesy of Kyle Ho)
A UCLA School of Law project is helping judges and advocates respond to the impact of the novel coronavirus in prisons. Sharon Dolovich, a UCLA School of Law professor and Director of the UCLA Prison Law & Policy Program, founded the UCLA COVID-19 Behind Bars Data Project on March 17 to track health conditions in incarceration facilities and efforts to decrease prison populations during the pandemic. Read more...
Photo: Researchers at the UCLA School of Law started a data project on March 17 to track health conditions in incarceration facilities and efforts to decrease populations in those facilities. The project has since grown and received positive feedback from judges and advocates using the data for related cases. (Tanmay Shankar/Assistant Photo editor)
An electrician who worked for UCLA Facilities Management died from COVID-19 on Friday, a UCLA Health spokesperson confirmed. Emmanuel Gomez, a journeyman electrician working at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, died Friday at another hospital, according to a Teamsters Local 2010 webpage dedicated to Gomez. Read more...
Photo: An electrician who worked at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center died Friday from COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. The employee was a member of the Teamsters Local 2010 union, which is working to set up a fund to help his family and is currently planning a memorial or vigil.
Campus Queries is a series in which Daily Bruin readers and staff present science-related questions for UCLA professors and experts to answer. Q: How long does the novel coronavirus last on some surfaces? Read more...
Photo: A recent study involving UCLA researchers found that the novel coronavirus remains infectious on certain surfaces for several hours to days, depending on the material. For example, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, the virus that causes the disease, can last for 72 hours on plastic and stainless steel but only four hours on copper. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Students at the UCLA Anderson School of Management are organizing donation drives for personal protective equipment to help front-line workers treating patients with COVID-19. Due to the current pandemic, there has been a shortage of PPE, including gloves, masks, face shields and gowns, which leaves some health care workers ill-equipped to safely treat their patients. Read more...
Photo: Volunteers stand and chat at a personal protective equipment donation drive organized by students from the UCLA Anderson School of Management. The idea began with Judy Choe, a part-time student at the School of Management and attending physician in UCLA Health’s Department of Emergency Medicine, who saw her colleagues in New York struggle with the lack of supplies. (Courtesy of Judy Choe)
A UCLA student is developing a low-cost ventilator to help fight COVID-19. Graduate student Glen Meyerowitz saw the need for ventilators across the country and knew he could create a dramatically simplified, cost-effective ventilator to address the problems specific to the new coronavirus. Read more...
Photo: In light of a COVID-19-induced national shortage of ventilators, UCLA graduate student Glen Meyerowitz began developing a cost-effective prototype, assembling a model within a week. (Courtesy of Glen Meyerowitz)
