UCLA researchers have developed a new combination immunotherapy to treat advanced brain cancer. The combination treatment works by preventing brain cancer cells from shielding themselves from a patient’s own immune responses. Read more...
Photo: Robert M. Prins, leader of the cancer research team that discovered effective immunity to glioblastoma requires a robust killer T cell response in order to attenuate immune cells within the tumor.(Courtesy of Robert Prins)
Civil engineering students will paddle in the waters of Marina del Rey in their self-built canoe this fall. Every year, the UCLA Concrete Canoe team designs and builds a canoe made of concrete and participates in regional and national concrete canoe competitions held by the American Society of Civil Engineers. Read more...
Photo: The UCLA Concrete Canoe team recently won second place at the national competition race. The team will spend the summer and fall contacting suppliers, designing the canoe and perfecting the concrete formula. (Courtesy of Nate de Ropp)
An interdisciplinary research team at UCLA is recycling carbon dioxide in a novel process to develop sustainable building material. Carbon Upcycling consists of 13 UCLA faculty members, students and staff from various fields such as engineering, chemistry and public policy. Read more...
Photo: Bu Wang and Gabriel Falzone are members of Carbon Upcycling, an interdisciplinary team at UCLA that came up with a way to incorporate carbon dioxide into the manufacture of concrete, making it carbon-neutral. (Miriam Bribiesca/Photo editor)
A UCLA institute received a $69.6 million award Tuesday for its work in biomedical research. The National Institutes of Health awarded the five-year grant to the UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute, or CTSI, a UCLA partnership with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Charles R. Read more...
The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health announced a new chair and professor of epidemiology Tuesday. Karin Michels, who received her doctorate in epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health and in biostatistics at Cambridge University, will join the faculty June 30. Read more...
Photo: (Courtesy of Karin Michels)
A new life sciences series will begin replacing the current Life Sciences Core Curriculum with video-based lectures in fall 2016. The new series will shorten the existing course sequence by one quarter. Read more...
It took Ken and Jill Eltrich three years to realize the 5-pound rock they were using as a doorstop was a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite. After almost another year of reading up on the meteorite, the couple decided they wanted to share the stone with others and loaned it to the UCLA Meteorite Gallery. Read more...
Photo: The petal-shaped depressions on Ken and Jill Eltrich’s meteorite make it stand out among other oriented meteorites. (Emaan Baqai/Daily Bruin senior staff)
