Science & Health

As it has for each flu season during the past seven years, the UCLA Ashe Student Health Center is offering free flu shots at events around campus. Tuesday’s flu fair, the last of a series of four, was held in… More »

UCLA’s Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science hasn’t had a permanent dean since June 30, 2001 ““ and it shows in the School’s national rankings. The search is still on for a permanent dean, but in the meantime,… More »

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UCLA professors named in list of “˜visionaries’ UCLA chemistry professor James R. Heath and neuroscientist Gary W. Small were named by Scientific American magazine as one of the “Scientific American 50″ visionaries in the world of research. The list appeared… More »

Education has always relied on technology. Dating back to the invention of the paper and pencil, technology has revolutionized the education process. However, in a country which struggles to maintain basic literacy rates, it is difficult to see how technology… More »

Engineers at UCLA have combined engineering with the mathematical field of geometry to design smaller, more diverse antennas. UCLA electrical engineering chairman, Yahya Rahmat-Samii, and Ph.D. student John Gianvittorio are using fractals, mathematical models normally used to define curves and… More »

Researchers at UCLA, in collaboration with scientists at Duke University and Sandia National Laboratories, have made an advance in modifying biochemical systems. In an article published in the November issue of Nature Materials, researchers reported that they could modify a… More »