Monday, April 27

Professor helps develop ‘artificial retina’

Patients who lost their eyesight over the course of their lifetime can now be treated to partially restore their vision, after the Food and Drug Administration recently cleared an “artificial retina” device. Read more...

Photo: Wentai Liu, a professor at the bioengineering department at UCLA, helped engineer a device that can help partially restore vision for blind patients. The device was recently cleared by the Food and Drug Administration.




Faculty Women’s Club compiles rich history through oral project

Twenty UCLA faculty members and their wives waited in a cozy billiards room with closed eyes and bated breath. One woman lifted a plastic toy gun above her head and fired it. Read more...

Photo: Members of the UCLA Faculty Women’s Club, a group that was founded in 1918, and their spouses meet regularly to socialize and discuss their experiences at UCLA over the years. One of the many activities the members take part in is a monthly play reading, shown above.


President Barack Obama signs $85 billion sequester into effect

President Barack Obama signed today an executive order that officially puts into effect $85 billion in across-the-board national spending cuts known as sequestration. “By the authority vested in me as President … I hereby order that budgetary resources in each non-exempt budget account be reduced by the amount calculated by the Office of Management and Budget,” Obama stated in the order. Read more...