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...
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March 7, 11:53 pm
Ashe About Your Health: Unprescribed stimulants can have negative side effects
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March 5, 2:02 am
Bruin co-founds company to simplify coding
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.
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March 4, 2:04 am
Professor helps develop ‘artificial retina’
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.
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March 1, 1:49 am
Ashe About Your Health: Don’t Panic
What’s got you stewin’, Bruin? Read more...
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March 1, 1:34 am
UCLA researchers discover new drug that alleviates anxiety
It was midterm season during spring quarter and Powell Library was packed. Read more...
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February 28, 2:32 am
Professor and graduate student develop battery-like product
Maher El-Kady hurried to the RadioShack in Westwood on a summer afternoon to buy an LED lamp. Read more...
Photo: Maher El-Kady, a graduate student in biochemistry and chemistry, has been working with chemistry professor Richard Kaner to develop a large-scale method for the production of graphene-based supercapacitors, which he said could replace contemporary batteries.
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February 25, 1:28 am
Teaching assistant blends music with science
Mathematical equations and diagrams scribbled on the board behind him, a physics teaching assistant pulled out his harp, affectionately named Drusilla, during class. He plucked a thin string on the instrument. Read more...
Photo: Julio Rodriquez likes to teach students by playing a variety of different instruments for them.