Gordon Hull was walking with a group of UCLA volunteers in the Mojave Desert when they came to a steep, rocky surface covered in thousands of sketches. One of these drawings, a lone sheep, caught Hull's eye. Read more...
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Little Lake in Owens Valley, once used as a campground and trading post for multiple Native American tribes, has examples of rock art found by UCLA volunteers. (courtesy of Deidre Whitmore)
A faded blue arrow in the Geology Building points to a glass display case bearing a sign: "World's Oldest Fossils." The information behind the glass explains it all "“ the rock specimens are from Australia and date back 3.5 billion years. Read more...
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Professor J. William Schopf discovered some of the world’s oldest fossils.
On a typical day in the field, archaeology graduate student Anne Austin would wake up at 4 a.m. Read more...
Clad in bright purple Nikes and sitting on an inflatable exercise ball, former athlete and UCLA health services professor Antronette Yancey organizes her campaign to get Americans moving. Read more...
To battle the constantly mutating enemy of prostate cancer, UCLA researchers decided to forgo the conventional approach of developing specific drugs for the disease. Read more...
For patients whose organs have failed, an organ transplant often means another shot at a healthy life. Read more...
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In this vasculopathic heart vessel, interaction between two specific molecules narrows blood vessels, causing a reduction of oxygen flow.
UCLA DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY
Kaitlynn Yandell walked into King/Drew Magnet High School wearing a shirt with the words "Sex Squad" emblazoned on the front. Read more...
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Second-year international development studies student Kaitlynn
Yandell is in AIDS Ambassadors.
