In a recent study examining different points of view regarding
the rise in obesity in the United States, two UCLA sociologists
concluded that the condition is not an epidemic, as widely reported
by scientists and the media.

When third-year microbiology student Nima Milani-Nejad entered
the 2005 Building and Landscape Product Design Competition, he
“had no idea (he) was going to win” anything.
After all, Milani-Nejad was up against 80 entries offered by 25
different individuals, groups and companies ““ including those
whose sole business was to design products created from waste
tires, the main criterion for the contest.

With the passage of last year’s Proposition 71 and the
creation of a new stem cell research institute at UCLA, recent
graduates will have many opportunities in cancer research over the
next 10 years.

What do Disney cartoons, Star Trek, UCLA professors, video
games, and tsunami relief all have in common?
Bringing together a motley collection of genre media
professionals and education, the UCLA science fiction, fantasy,
horror and gaming club Enigma is hosting EnigmaCon 2005 this
Saturday on the UCLA campus as a tsunami relief fund-raiser.

Students wishing to avoid crammed office hour sessions and
having to scour Powell to find a room for their study group to meet
will soon have a convenient alternative.

The wars of the future are becoming more real and closer to home
than ever before … for fantasy role players and tabletop
generals, that is.

When UCLA Professors Ben Wu and Eric Ting first thought to
patent a new bone regeneration technique they developed, they had
little idea where to begin.

In response to recommendations detailed in a report recently
issued to the University of California regarding reform of its
willed body programs, the UC Office of the President has created a
new systemwide program coordinator in its Health Affairs
hierarchy.

Preparing themselves for influential careers in a slew of
labor-related fields, UCLA undergraduates are adding the labor and
workplace studies minor to their resumes.
The minor is not offered by a department at UCLA, but through
the Institute of Industrial Relations at UCLA in collaboration with
the UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education ““ a liaison
between the university and the Southern California labor
community.

In light of the fact that the number of HIV-infected women
increases every year, it may seem that the number of newborns
contracting the virus should also increase.