National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute gave five University of California medical campuses a $12 million grant to launch a Center for Accelerated Innovations, according to a university press release on Thursday. Read more...
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September 27, 3:46 pm
Five UC medical campuses partner to open center, receive grant
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September 27, 1:32 am
UCLA team invents microscope attachment for cell phones
Between calling, texting and updating social media, people will soon be able to use their cell phones as a microscope powerful enough to detect viruses. Read more...
Photo: Aydogan Ozcan, a professor of electrical engineering and bioengineering, helped create a microscope that can be attached to a cell phone to take images of single viruses.
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September 26, 3:22 am
Construction begins on UCLA medical teaching and learning center
Construction for a new $120 million teaching center at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine began Wednesday with a groundbreaking ceremony. The Teaching and Learning Center for Health Sciences will open in 2016 on the corner of Tiverton Drive and Le Conte Avenue. Read more...
Photo: Chancellor Gene Block was among the university officials who ceremoniously broke ground on a new medical school building Wednesday.
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September 22, 12:00 am
SHIP provides range of medical benefits to UC students
Ever wondered what UC SHIP actually covers? (Click graphic to enlarge.) Read more...
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September 22, 12:00 am
UCLA engineering club moves beyond theory with projects
It started with a marble setting off a mouse trap. Step by step, the contraption made out of a chair, cardboard, and a number of household objects unwound until it reached its goal – a paper cutout of a hand high-fiving one of the team members. Read more...
Photo: UCLA students formed the Avengineering Club in the spring after competing in a Rube Goldberg machine competition, hosted by the national engineering honor society at UCLA. The club’s members plan to create a variety of engineering projects such as 3D printers, miniature blimps and catapults.
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September 22, 12:00 am
Fiat Lux explains psychopathy, evolution relationship
Delving into the mind of a psychopath and contemplating the evolution of the human psyche are both items on the syllabus for a new Fiat Lux seminar available this fall. Read more...
Photo: Professor Joseph Manson will teach a new Fiat Lux seminar on how psychological traits can be explained through evolution.
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September 22, 12:00 am
New Fiat Lux examines use of psychotropic plants
The original version of this article contained an error and has been changed. See the bottom of the article for additional information. David Shorter realized more research needed to be done on hallucinogenic plants when he befriended the Yoeme tribe in Mexico in the early 1990s. Read more...