Chinh Nguyen arranges wooden blocks, each in the shape of a miniaturized living space: doors, staircases, walls that are barely an inch long. Read more...

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Chinh Nguyen, a graduate student in architecture, works on a model of a modern Venice, Calif. home he constructed using a laser cutter. This is one of several innovations that have changed the workflow of architecture students in the past years.

Brown paper polygons seemed to creep out of the drawer and onto the side of the wall, creating an amorphous shape. Read more...

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Fourth-year art student Carmel Ni uses a room in her mother’s childhood home as a canvas for a gallery installation.

Students walking past Perloff Hall last quarter stopped often, intrigued by what looked like neon strings wrapping themselves around beach balls. Read more...

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Courtesy of HADRIAN PREDOCK

Jon Burton and Matthew Corbitt, graduate students in architecture, created a project (above) using string made of fiberglass filament.

Jessica McGuire grinned and asked, "Want to see it?" She lifted her shirt, showing a foot-long pink scar that snaked around from her back to just below her sports bra. Underneath were marks left behind by two half-inch incisions. Read more...

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Jessica McGuire, the captain of the UCLA women’s rowing team, had an operation last year to remove a football-sized tumor from inside her chest. McGuire has maintained her tenacity and sense of humor in the course of her recovery.

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Standard surgery "“ that of large incisions, permanent scars and teams of gloved and scrubbed doctors who hover over their patients on the operating table "“ may soon give way to something else entirely. Read more...

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Dr. Erik Dutson and researchers at UCLA’s Center for Advanced Surgical and Interventional Technology are working on the “operating room of the future,” a vision that heavily incorporates robots.

Faculty members at UCLA are currently reviewing a recommendation that may lead to faculty being paid more over a longer period of time. Read more...