Friday, May 9

USAC Recap

The Undergraduate Students Association Council is the official student government of UCLA's undergraduate students. Council meetings are Tuesdays at 7 p.m. in Kerckhoff 417 and are open to all students who wish to attend. Read more...






A new way to detect malaria

The diagnosis of malaria may be possible with a simple stick of chewing gum. Andrew Fung, a UCLA graduate student, might be able to work around the fear of needles in malaria-infected patients in remote countries. He received a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grant for $100,000 last month to research a method of diagnosing malaria with chewing gum. Read more...

Photo: UCLA doctoral student Andrew Fung will use his grant to research whether chewing gum can be used to detect malaria biomarkers in saliva.




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