An Ashe Center urgent care clinic that opened in spring has received positive feedback from students. Since its opening in late March, the ASAP Clinic has had more than 4,000 visits from students, said June Hu, data and applications manager for the Ashe Center. Read more...
Photo: The ASAP Clinic is a walk-in urgent care health clinic on the third floor of the Ashe Center. It opened due to complaints of overcrowding from Ashe Center patients.(Miriam Bribiesca/Photo editor)
This post was updated Sept. 1 at 9:25 a.m. UCLA officials announced Wednesday a partnership with the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team that covers in-game health care for players and naming rights to the Lakers’ new training facility. Read more...
Photo: John Mazziotta, vice chancellor of UCLA Health Sciences and CEO of UCLA Health, called the partnership between the Los Angeles Lakers and UCLA Health an opportunity to promote health and fitness. UCLA Health will serve as the exclusive provider of in-game health care for Lakers players and will also name the team’s training center. (Courtesy of UCLA Health)
A pharmaceutical company will be purchasing the seller of Xtandi, a cancer treatment developed by UCLA, for $14 billion. Pfizer Inc. announced Monday that it will buy Medivation Inc., a biopharmaceutical company that develops disease treatments. Read more...
Graduate students will be able to examine video evidence from body worn cameras in a new course this fall. The UCLA Department of Information Studies’ four-unit seminar, “Special Topics in Information Studies: Archival Practice in the Age of Ubiquitous Surveillance Technologies,” will review policies about audiovisual material and provide training for students pursuing careers in film management, said Jean-François Blanchette, an associate professor in the Department of Information Studies. Read more...
Photo: The four-unit seminar “Management of Digital Records” offered this fall will allow UCLA graduate students to examine video evidence from body worn cameras. (Miriam Bribiesca/Photo editor)
When Leonard Kleinrock’s student sent the first internet message from UCLA to Stanford, he said it felt more like a perfunctory job well done rather than a moment that would go down in history. Read more...
Photo: “Lo and Behold,” a documentary about the internet’s impact directed by Werner Herzog released Aug. 19, and features Leonard Kleinrock, a UCLA computer science professor. (Jennifer Hu/Daily Bruin)
