Tuesday, May 13





Giving voices to the voiceless

The six-year-old boy could not stop gushing to Kozue Shimabukuro over his new backpack, the kind all children in Japan receive as a present for entering the first grade. Nothing would have seemed wrong if Shimabukuro had not been a pediatric critical care physician. Read more...

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Pediatrician Kozue Shimabukuro, who spoke at UCLA on Tuesday, recently volunteered in Japan to help with the disaster relief effort after the March 11 earthquake.


UCLA’s eighth Relay for Life will educate about cancer through games, attempt at world record

The fourth-year physiological science student is now the president of the American Cancer Society's Colleges Against Cancer at UCLA, but when she was younger, she couldn't comprehend the extent of her mother's troubles. Read more...

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Students participate in 2008’s Relay For Life, an event that helps fund cancer research. UCLA hosts the event this weekend in Drake Stadium.




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