Rachelle Crosbie-Watson tries to live her life as an experiment. Whether it is throwing out her teaching plans, motorcycling across the Texas Hill Country or dyeing her hair pink, the UCLA professor is constantly looking for opportunities to try something new. Read more...
Photo: Professor Rachelle Crosbie-Watson likes to experiment – even with her hair.
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute gave five University of California medical campuses a $12 million grant to launch a Center for Accelerated Innovations, according to a university press release on Thursday. Read more...
Between calling, texting and updating social media, people will soon be able to use their cell phones as a microscope powerful enough to detect viruses. Read more...
Photo: Aydogan Ozcan, a professor of electrical engineering and bioengineering, helped create a microscope that can be attached to a cell phone to take images of single viruses.
Construction for a new $120 million teaching center at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine began Wednesday with a groundbreaking ceremony. The Teaching and Learning Center for Health Sciences will open in 2016 on the corner of Tiverton Drive and Le Conte Avenue. Read more...
Photo: Chancellor Gene Block was among the university officials who ceremoniously broke ground on a new medical school building Wednesday.
Ever wondered what UC SHIP actually covers? (Click graphic to enlarge.) Read more...
It started with a marble setting off a mouse trap. Step by step, the contraption made out of a chair, cardboard, and a number of household objects unwound until it reached its goal – a paper cutout of a hand high-fiving one of the team members. Read more...
Photo: UCLA students formed the Avengineering Club in the spring after competing in a Rube Goldberg machine competition, hosted by the national engineering honor society at UCLA. The club’s members plan to create a variety of engineering projects such as 3D printers, miniature blimps and catapults.
Delving into the mind of a psychopath and contemplating the evolution of the human psyche are both items on the syllabus for a new Fiat Lux seminar available this fall. Read more...
Photo: Professor Joseph Manson will teach a new Fiat Lux seminar on how psychological traits can be explained through evolution.
