Monday marked the official opening for the new Institute for Cell Mimetic Space Exploration at UCLA. The joint partnership between UCLA and NASA aims to develop a “lab on a chip,” which would carry out the same complex functions of a full-sized scientific lab on a tiny chip. Read more...
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February 10, 9:00 pm
Institute for Cell Mimetic Space Exploration opens
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February 10, 9:00 pm
Beware the dangers of over-exercising
Vinh Lam, a fourth-year economics student works out up to three hours a day, six days a week. His exercise regimen is divided between weight lifting, cardio and ab exercises. Read more...
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February 10, 9:00 pm
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Internet study finds increased household usage The Internet ranks as the most widely-used information source, higher than all other media including television and newspapers according to Year Three of the UCLA Internet Report. Read more...
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February 3, 9:00 pm
Q & A with James Heath
UCLA chemistry and biochemistry professor James Heath, co-founder of the California Nanosystems Institute and recently named to the Scientific American top 50 visionaries in science, sat down last week for an interview with the Daily Bruin: DB: Working in new science like nanotechnology, do you often find yourself having to describe to people what you do? Read more...
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February 3, 9:00 pm
Online tests help geeks vent repressed emotions
Do you have more than five registered e-mail addresses? How about more than three AIM screen names? Does the acronym “DC” remind you of a steady flow of current instead of our nation’s capital? Read more...
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February 3, 9:00 pm
Nanotechnology inspires joining of art, science
Students trudging home from class last Wednesday night may have been surprised to come face-to-face with a six-foot-tall molecule projected on the wall of UCLA’s Court of Sciences. Read more...
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February 3, 9:00 pm
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UCLA will host symposium on health care The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA will present a health care symposium entitled “The Business of Medicine: Challenges to Professionalism” on Saturday, Feb. Read more...