Thursday, June 26





Grad student works to improve water quality, access in South Central Los Angeles

Miriam Torres understands how important it is to have access to clean water. As a child, she split her time between a lush, green area in southern Mexico with an abundance of water and a poor town in northern Mexico where water had to be trucked in each day. Read more...

Photo: Miriam Torres, a student in the Luskin School of Public Affairs, will graduate with a master’s in urban planning


UCLA expands student opportunities with global health programs

He remembers how the main floor of the Central Hospital of Maputo in Mozambique overflowed with sick or injured children on crowded hospital beds. As a visiting volunteer from UCLA, Cameron Escovedo communicated with patients through hand gestures and broken sentences, helping doctors diagnose them despite the broken CT scanner and lack of medical tools. Read more...


Professor Mark Tramo melds music and medicine

Against his better judgement, Dr. Mark Tramo spent much of his time playing rock ‘n’ roll instead of studying for his pre-medical classes at Yale University in the 1970s. Read more...

Photo: Dr. Tramo plays guitar for his class to demonstrate how music affects the brain. He is a UCLA professor and a physician who teaches a class called “Music and Brain” for undergraduates. He has been a lifelong rock ‘n’ roll enthusiast and researches the possibility of using music to help patients.



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