In American medical schools, students are required to go to psychiatric hospitals and attain clinical hands-on training, regardless of the specialty they choose. Read more...
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Trang Ho examines the teeth of a child in Vietnam. Ho volunteered with the Project Vietnam Foundation to provide medical care to impoverished villages.
(Courtesy of Trang Ho)
April 1, 2011 – In 1969, a group of UCLA engineers sent the first-ever Internet message from UCLA to the Stanford Research Institute. Leonard Kleinrock, computer science professor and Internet technology pioneer, recounts what the message was supposed to be and what actually happened.
The room where this message was sent from is in the works to become an Internet Heritage Site and Archive. Read the full story here.
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"Lo and behold! The Internet was born"When Brad Fidler started investigating the origins of the Internet at UCLA, there was no consensus on who created the technology and where it began. Read more...
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History doctoral candidate Brad Fidler discovered that the first Internet message was sent from a room on the UCLA campus in 1969, using the Interface Message Processor shown here.
Diana Meneses didn't know what to do after she decided to become a medical social worker.
Meneses, a third-year sociology student, was at a loss for what classes to take; she knew few people in the field, and the counseling services on campus were not open during the gaps in her schedule. Read more...
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Arash Nasibi
UCLA has responded to the call for aid in the two weeks after a 9.0 earthquake and tsunami rocked Japan. Read more...
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UCLA critical care pediatrician Kozue Shimabukuro has joined a pediatric response team and helped establish clinics to aid sick and orphaned children in Japan.
Courtesy of Kozue Shimabukuro
Pediatric dentist Deya Sanchez spent an ordinary day in March seeing patients in the UCLA Venice Dental Center in Venice. Read more...
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Residents from the Community Health and Advocacy Training-Pediatric Dentistry program treat children at a clinic. A group recently traveled to Washington, D.C., to advocate for better funding and dental benefits.
Courtesy of Robin Flint
The highlight of Amy Chen's spring break was chatting up a Morgan Freeman look-a-like in a homeless shelter in Salinas. Read more...
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Student volunteers Austin Logie, left, Coki Ta, middle, and Clare Bajamundi paint a bathroom on the second floor of the building that is being converted into
transitional housing for patrons of Dorothy’s Place.
Courtesy of Coki Ta
UCLA students on their way to finals donated $1,500 to relief efforts in Japan. The Nikkei Student Union, a Japanese American student group, quickly mobilized a donation drive that began Monday on Bruin Walk, said Kevin Machino, the club's president. Read more...
