In June, Jeffrey Chen met a mother whose child has a rare form of epilepsy. He was shocked to hear her child’s symptoms nearly disappeared after he began to use medical marijuana. Read more...
Photo: Jeffrey Chen took a leave of absence from his dual studies in management and medicine to create a nonprofit organization, the National Institute of Cannabinoid Research. (Alejandra Reyes-Velarde/Daily Bruin senior staff)
University police arrested a manager at the UCLA School of Dentistry for allegedly raping a drugged individual. The man, who is the training manager and clinics liaison at the dentistry school’s public health and community dentistry department, was arrested in his office at 10960 Wilshire Blvd. Read more...
The black, cube-shaped 3-D printer hummed as lasers stacked thin layers of plastic-infused white filament upon each other, giving 3-D life to a 2-D design. After the printer completed its job, Doug Daniels removed a lattice-patterned skull from the platform. Read more...
Photo: Doug Daniels, a technical project specialist at Young Research Library, holds a newly printed skull by the MakerBot 3-D printer. (Alejandra Reyes/Daily Bruin senior staff)
A $1.89 million UCLA and USC research study funded by the U.S. Department of Defense will examine health disparities between lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender military service members and heterosexual service members. Read more...
Photo: Assistant professor in the Luskin School of Public Affairs to contribute to research about the experience of military service members who identify as LGBT. (Courtesy of Ian Holloway)
UCLA will host the first Luskin Neuroscience and Society Conference Friday to allow faculty from different parts of campus to discuss the implications of neuroscience in everyday life. Read more...
In 1993, novelist Toni Morrison became the first black woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, showing the world a critically-acclaimed artist could be a force of change. Read more...
Photo: Chancellor Gene Block will award Toni Morrison the UCLA Medal in a ceremony at Royce Hall Monday, which will include a panel discussion with UCLA graduate students and faculty. (Courtesy of Timothy Greenfield Sanders)
Atoms pictured in textbooks depict estimations of their average position in materials, but are not entirely accurate. UCLA scientists discovered a way to precisely determine their location in materials and accurately depict them in 3-D models that shows gaps in groups of atoms. Read more...
Photo: (Courtesy of Jianwei Miao)
