UCLA medical centers are training physicians and developing patient advocacy groups to prepare for an aid-in-dying law, which will go into effect June 9. The End of Life Option Act will permit doctors in California to prescribe self-administered, life-ending medication to patients who are terminally diagnosed to live for six months or fewer. Read more...
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May 25, 12:42 am
UCLA research group wins $18,000 grant to install water capture system
Five students received an $18,000 grant in early May to install a storm water capture system on the UCLA campus. Students on UCLA’s Sustainability Action Research’s Resilience Team plan to build a 200,000-gallon capture system that could save 1.22 million gallons of water per year, said Austin Park, a team leader and third-year civil and environmental engineering student. Read more...
Photo: The Green Initiative Fund awarded a grant to UCLA students to build a campus rainwater capture system. The system could save more than one million gallons of water per year.(Jennifer Hu/Daily Bruin)
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May 23, 12:54 am
Mathematics department’s Will Conley receives My Last Lecture Award
Throughout the school year, Will Conley spends many nights at UCLA, coaching students in his review sessions and greeting them not only with firm handshakes and polite hellos, but also hugs, requests for selfies and laughs. Read more...
Photo: Will Conley, an assistant adjunct professor of mathematics, won the My Last Lecture Award on Tuesday. (Kathy Chen/Daily Bruin)
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May 20, 12:27 am
Student aims high with medical marijuana delivery business
Medical marijuana was the only drug that improved Christian Kramme’s stomach pain after spending two years in and out of hospitals. Kramme, a second-year microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics student, believed he had pancreatic cancer when he began experiencing severe stomach pain and a lack of appetite in 2012. Read more...
Photo: Christian Kramme, a second-year microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics student, began a medical marijuana delivery service in December. (Pinkie Su/Daily Bruin)
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May 19, 12:38 am
UCLA’s X1 Robotics seeks to engage students in hands-on projects
The second floor of Boelter Hall is often heard before it’s seen. Filled with sounds of metal striking metal, the open workspace is cluttered with wires, rods and circuit boards, serving as the home base for multiple engineering and computer science groups – and now, X1 Robotics. Read more...
Photo: Prescott Rynewicz, a third-year aerospace engineering student, is part of X1 Robotics, a student-run robotics club that aims to engage engineering students in projects. (Ken Shin/Daily Bruin)
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May 17, 11:00 pm
Volunteers seek to improve patient safety at UCLA medical centers
During a typical volunteer shift at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Melinda Ng patrols the clinic floors to ensure nurses, physicians and surgeons wash their hands with soap for at least 15 seconds before rinsing. Read more...
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May 16, 6:16 pm
Police find no threat in suspicious package outside school of medicine
Police determined the suspicious package reported at the David Geffen School of Medicine on Monday afternoon was not a threat. UCPD Lieutenant Richard Davis said someone reported a grocery bag outside the Jules Stein Eye Institute on campus about 4 p.m. Read more...
Photo: Police closed a portion of Westwood Plaza Monday as LAPD’s bomb squad investigated a suspicious package on campus. (Jintak Han/Daily Bruin)