Joan Moran believes there is a certain peace when the palms are up, the back is straight and the heart is open. Moran’s students, all with different levels of yoga experience, sat barefoot on colored yoga mats that covered the roof of Boelter Hall at noon on Tuesday. Read more...
Photo: UCLA yoga instructor Joan Moran “surrendered to the moment” when she was 70 years old. She has been teaching yoga classes for the past 11 years. (Tamaryn Kong/Daily Bruin)
UCLA received two new grants totaling $4 million to study stem cell science and digestive diseases, according to a UCLA statement Thursday. The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation awarded one $2 million grant to Charalabos Pothoulakis, the director of the Center for Inflammatory Bowel Disease to study the molecular mechanisms of digestive diseases. Read more...
A global health symposium will take place Tuesday at 7 p.m. for people interested in global health and going to medical school. MEDLIFE, a global health organization that gives students hands-on experience alongside physicians and working professionals in other countries, is organizing the event. Read more...
U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., released a report on Friday identifying procedural errors in hospitals as one of the leading causes of death in America. The report included approaches hospitals should take to address this concern. Read more...
Photo: Senator Barbara Boxer visited the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center on Friday to see how medical personnel are addressing nine of the most common procedural errors she outlined in her medical report, which she also released on Friday. (Courtesy of UCLA Newsroom)
The UCLA Health System recently implemented a program to use antibiotic-free meat in an effort to have the hospitals serve healthier food. Thirty percent of the meat university hospitals now use is antibiotic-free as a part of Health Care Without Harm’s Healthy Food in Health Care program and the Healthier Hospitals Initiative said Patricia Oliver, the director of nutrition for the UCLA Health System. Read more...
Aspiring web producers and app developers exclaimed as they held their smartphones up to capture the impressive scene of having more than a thousand hackers gathered in one space to spend the next 36 hours innovating and developing new ideas together. Read more...
Photo: Fourteen-year-old Ankur Jain works on his project during LA Hacks. (Felicia Ramirez/Daily Bruin staff)
A 5-year-old boy ran, laughing, across the room toward his friends, causing portraits of his classmates’ faces to flash up on the wall. The excited voices of kindergartners quickly filled the room. Read more...
Photo: Noel Enyedy, an associate professor of education, worked with kindergartners at the UCLA Lab School for a new interactive visual teaching system called the Cyber Mural. (Kelsey Kong/Daily Bruin)
