Ten years ago, Dr. Reza Jarrahy made his first trip to Guatemala with a team of doctors. A civil war had recently ended in the country, and the team set up operating rooms inside vacated military barracks. Read more...

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Dr. Reza Jarrahy recently returned from Guatemala, where he worked to fix cleft palates. On his most recent trip to Guatemala, Jarrahy spent 10 to 12 hours a day in a makeshift hospital in Antigua treating congenital deformities, which he said is mostly aesthetic but quite crucial in the economically disadvantaged country.

Walking into the operating room, Dr. Gary Mathern's jitters consisted of only one thought: "Have I really thought all the details through?" Read more...

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COURTESY OF GARY W. MATHERN
Dr. Gary Mathern and his team perform a hemispherectomy. The procedure is undertaken to treat severe, otherwise-untreatable seizures.

Adrian Cheng was an undergraduate student studying physics and math at UCLA just eight years ago, uncertain of how he could contribute to the scientific field. Read more...

In a laboratory nestled inside the Getty Villa, art and science are an unusual but vital combination. Read more...

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UCLA grad student Cindy Lee Scott works as a conservator at the Getty Villa as part of the Program in the Conservation of Archaeological and Ethnographic Materials.

Gordon Hull was walking with a group of UCLA volunteers in the Mojave Desert when they came to a steep, rocky surface covered in thousands of sketches. One of these drawings, a lone sheep, caught Hull's eye. Read more...

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Little Lake in Owens Valley, once used as a campground and trading post for multiple Native American tribes, has examples of rock art found by UCLA volunteers. (courtesy of Deidre Whitmore)

A faded blue arrow in the Geology Building points to a glass display case bearing a sign: "World's Oldest Fossils." The information behind the glass explains it all "“ the rock specimens are from Australia and date back 3.5 billion years. Read more...

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Professor J. William Schopf discovered some of the world’s oldest fossils.