Pamela Gorbach, who specializes in behavioral epidemiology, has travelled to nine countries to research the ways in which human actions influence bodily infection and to improve treatment for infections. Read more...
Photo: Pamina Gorbach, a researcher and professor in the department of epidemiology at the Fielding School of Public Health, performs HIV/AIDS research which has taken her to nine countries.
UCLA’s new Healthy Campus Initiative, which aims to promote several new health and sustainablility programs, launched on Monday with a celebratory fair in the John Wooden Center. Read more...
Good night, sleep tight, don’t let the bed bugs bite. Yuck. Not the most comforting thing to tell little children as we tuck them in at night. Read more...
Their sterile suits had three layers. She could only see their eyes underneath the masks they wore. Read more...
Photo: Valerie Sun, a graduate student at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, received a bone marrow transplant when she was 17 years old that saved her life. Now she’s hoping to help her friend, Krissy Kobata, find a donor by putting on a bone marrow drive this weekend.
The recent surge in reported flu cases in California has caused students to turn to on-campus resources to help prevent infection or deal with the symptoms. Read more...
In many ways, Alex Korb has become an expert at tricking the body and brain. Read more...
Photo: Alex Korb, a postdoctoral researcher at UCLA, tries to apply his knowledge of the interactions between the brain and the body to daily life in his blog “PreFrontal Nudity: the brain exposed.”
A new class being offered this quarter at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability will teach students how to integrate new media – like blogs, videos and podcasts – into environmental science. Read more...
Photo: The Institute of the Environment and Sustainability’s new class explores the intersection between the environment, journalism and new media.
