During therapy sessions in a small office south of Wilshire, patients are greeted by classical music, a warm handshake and an important question: Have you ever been moved to write a poem? Read more...
Photo: Robert Carroll, a UCLA Medical Center psychiatrist, has his patients write poetry to help them cope with their struggles.
The UCLA life sciences division is in the midst of reforming its curricula as part of an attempt to make undergraduate requirements for life sciences students more relevant to their field of study. Read more...
Many students have a friend, or a friend of a friend, who has been prescribed Adderall or another stimulant. Patients who take stimulants see numerous improvements in their symptoms, including greater alertness and concentration, and decreased distraction and procrastination. Read more...
Setting aside job offers and sleep for the sake of a project they jokingly call their child, a UCLA student and his friend are working to develop their young company. Read more...
Photo: Hunter Owens, a fourth-year communication studies student, and his high school friend Mark Nadal co-founded a company that offers a website design program, with the aim of eliminating the coding to allow customers to interact directly with the website interface.
Patients who lost their eyesight over the course of their lifetime can now be treated to partially restore their vision, after the Food and Drug Administration recently cleared an “artificial retina” device. Read more...
Photo: Wentai Liu, a professor at the bioengineering department at UCLA, helped engineer a device that can help partially restore vision for blind patients. The device was recently cleared by the Food and Drug Administration.
What’s got you stewin’, Bruin? Read more...
It was midterm season during spring quarter and Powell Library was packed. Read more...
