Philippe Videau held a single flexible strip of connected triangular pieces in his hands. Seconds ago, the product was an entire bike helmet with an organic frame made of mycelium, a structure found in mushrooms. Read more...
Photo: Philippe Videau, a fifth-year aerospace engineering student, helped create a flexible helmet that can mold to customized head shapes from a structure found in mushrooms. (Miriam Bribiesca/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Marco Ferreira’s recovery process has been a long one, consisting of three surgeries, ongoing physical rehabilitation and numerous visits from therapy dogs. In 2008, Ferreira was involved in a motorcycle accident that resulted in a traumatic brain injury and left him in a coma for six weeks. Read more...
Photo: Gigi Schiller, a staff member for People-Animal Connection, pets Larry, one of the program’s 70 therapy dogs. The program, which was founded in 1994, has dogs visit patients, staff and families in different UCLA Health centers to help them in recovery. (Michael Zshornack/Daily Bruin)
University of California researchers will present a report recommending officials to regulate carbon emissions and reduce short-lived pollutant concentrations at a United Nations conference on climate change later this month. Read more...
The City of Los Angeles awarded the Donated Body Program at UCLA a permit last Thursday that permanently authorizes researchers to use a flameless procedure called Bio Cremation to dispose of cadavers. Read more...
On Nov. 3, the Sunset Village Learning Center hosted a 3-D pen workshop featuring colorful 3Doodler pens. 3Doodler pens are 3-D printing pens that allow freehand creations by spitting heated plastic. Read more...
Photo: (Rachel Zhu|Daily Bruin)
The pharmacy at UCLA’s Arthur Ashe Student Health and Wellness Center will move to Ackerman Union next summer to expand clinical services within the Ashe Center, as discussed at an undergraduate student government meeting last Tuesday. Read more...
Photo: Next summer, the Arthur Ashe Student Health and Wellness Center pharmacy is moving to Ackerman Union to offer additional clinical services in the Ashe Center. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Student researchers carried wrench sets, solar panels and other satellite parts as they boarded planes to Virginia this summer and early fall, in preparation for launch simulation tests on their satellite. Read more...
Photo: Vassilis Angelopoulos, the principal investigator of the ELFIN satellite and a professor of earth and space sciences, presents an executive summary during an ELFIN meeting. (Owen Emerson/Daily Bruin senior staff)
