The first day of a planned two-day union strike across the University of California’s medical centers drew out picket lines of patient care and service workers across the UC. Read more...
Photo: Patient care technical and service workers at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center picket as part of a two-day union strike.
Dr. Antronette Yancey, a professor at the UCLA Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health who devoted her life to promoting healthy living and exercise to eliminate health problems, died April 23 of lung cancer. Read more...
From time to time, Dr. David Baron, executive director at the Arthur Ashe Student Health and Wellness Center, will ask other health experts at the Ashe Center to host the column and answer student questions. Read more...
Hundreds of people will run through Wilson Plaza Sunday morning for the 14th annual Bruin Run/Walk. Read more...
The Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, one of more than 100 neuroscience labs on campus, analyzes brain scans collected from around the world to create maps of what brains should look like in different phases of a person’s life as well as those for patients with neurological diseases. Read more...
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.
