From apartments near UCLA and the sidewalks in Westwood, students can see a large industrial building that emits high volumes of vapor from its roof. Inside the facility, the UCLA cogeneration plant, a source of clean, renewable energy, has been supplying low-cost electricity and thermal energy to the campus since 1994. Read more...
Photo: Courtesy of Sandra Rhee
UCLA scientists recently received a $1 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to continue research on a new potential treatment for lung cancer. The treatment, developed by Leonard Rome and Dr. Read more...
Editor’s Note: Over the next 22 weeks, Bruin reporter Katie Shepherd will be training for the Asics L.A. Marathon and writing a weekly column chronicling her experiences along the way. Read more...
Dr. Uday Devaskar rode the near-52 miles home from UCLA to Oxnard in a private ambulance with prematurely born Ione Villanueva in 2001. When they arrived, family and friends were waiting for Ione, who was able to spend time in her crib with her twin sister, Macy, before she died from liver failure in her mother’s arms about an hour later. Read more...
Photo: Stephanie Crisostomo holds her 11-month-old daughter, Willow, in her arms at the Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA reunion. Willow was born three months premature and struggled to breathe because of medical problems at birth. (Brandon Choe/Daily Bruin senior staff)
UCLA has received an $11 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to make a center that would study biomedical data analysis, or big data computing, UCLA announced Thursday. Read more...
About five years ago, one of Mark Kaplan’s colleagues – a well-liked professor and scholar – committed suicide. Though Kaplan had been researching suicide for 17 years, his colleague’s death was the first time he was personally affected by the event. Read more...
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Four UCLA researchers recently received the National Institutes of Health Director’s New Innovator Award, officials announced in a press release Wednesday. The annual award recognizes innovative research in science and supports creative new investigators, with each winner receiving $2.3 million for his or her research projects. Read more...
