Students are working to spread awareness and raise money to fund research for neuromuscular diseases through the Muscular Dystrophy Society at UCLA. Muscular dystrophies are rare muscle disorders that progressively weaken and break down skeletal muscles over time, leading to decreased strength, increased disability and potential physical deformities. Read more...

Photo: Mary Keushkerian, Lusin Yengibaryan, Angela Minasyan, Maral Chorbajian, Julieta Serobyan (left to right) are pictured. (Courtesy of Angela Minasyan)

Researchers at UCLA and the University of British Columbia have found that volunteering over 100 hours per year is associated with reduced biological age. Two people with the same chronological age can have different biological ages, which is a measure of how old your cells and tissues appear, according to Verywell Health. Read more...

Photo: (By Isabella Lee/Illustrations Director)