Even before the fall quarter of her first year at UCLA, Shannon Wongvibulsin was already working as a UCLA undergraduate researcher trying to figure out the best way to study biomaterials and regenerate body tissues. Read more...
Photo: Third-year bioengineering student Shannon Wongvibulsin received the Barry Goldwater Scholarship earlier this year.
A dancer in a sequined white lab coat shot smoke rings out of a machine, exploded hydrogen balloons and made his gloves glow in the dark. Read more...
Photo: Jeffrey Vinokur, a biochemistry doctoral student at UCLA, displays some of his lasers. Vinokur toured the country performing his scientific educational act, “The Dancing Scientist.” He combines his lifelong love of science with his more recent interest in dance.
Ask a simple question, get a pretty complicated answer. For one thing, is “sexual health” the same as “healthy sex”? No, not for the purposes of this article. Read more...
The son of famous physician Henry Heimlich has requested that UCLA reopen an investigation from more than 10 years ago regarding the involvement of two UCLA researchers in a controversial study led by his father. Read more...
It dawned on him during a train ride from Mountain View, Calif. and developed into a full-fledged business plan by the time the train pulled into San Francisco 45 minutes later. Read more...
Nurse Jill Palechek begins her 12-hour shift at 7 a.m. in the emergency and pediatric intensive care unit at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. After what seems like an uneventful day of routine rounds, her pager suddenly buzzes. Read more...
Photo: The Upland Fire Department partnered with REACH Air Medical Services and UCLA to airlift children and babies in critical condition from smaller hospitals to Ronald Reagan Hospital at UCLA. The pictured helicopter is a Eurocopter EC-135.
A UCLA anthropology professor studies an unorthodox type of hunter-gatherer – one who forages for unlocked cars and hunts for easily stolen property. Read more...
Photo: Jeffrey Brantingham, an anthropology professor at UCLA, helped develop crime-mapping software called Predictive Policing by using crime data.
