They’re the quiet ones in class. The ones that stare at
the ground and avoid eye contact. They shrink away from large
crowds, preferring the company of a few close friends.

Beef and cheddar sandwich.
It was on the dinner menu when thousands of undergraduates
returned to life in the residential halls this year.
Normally this menu item usually wouldn’t raise any
questions, but this year, students are returning from winter break
and with the December discovery of the first case of mad cow
disease in the United States.

UCLA seismologists are shaking things up with a new method that
may allow scientists to predict earthquakes months in advance.
The team of scientists from Russia, United States, Japan and
France included experts in pattern recognition, geodynamics and
statistical physics.

A box of tissues, cough syrups, pain relievers, hot tea and a
liquid diet ““ it’s an all too familiar, miserable scene
that has struck hundreds of students during the last weeks of the
quarter and right into finals.

He comes off as a hip Hollywood entrepreneur ““ clad in
jeans, a sweater and sunglasses ““ and by all accounts,
he’s plenty shrewd. In 1971, 25-year-old Peter Morton and a
friend opened up a Hard Rock Café in London, never dreaming
the restaurant would become a symbol of Americana and that he would
sell his chain for $410 million.

Combining technology with traditional teaching methods to enrich
undergraduate education will be the focus of a program headed by
the Faculty Committee on Educational Technology and the Office of
Instructional Development.

It is a tragic tale of loving something to death. The white
abalone, a creature that once blanketed the rocky waters of
southern California, is now on the brink of extinction.

Women buy shampoos that promise “silky smoothness.”
Men buy the same “dandruff protection”
shampoos. Advertisers have known ““ men and women are
different.
For decades, scientists have attributed these differences to sex
hormones, but a new study by UCLA scientists suggests that gender
identity is hardwired into the brain long before sex hormones are
even developed.

In a move to increase national security without impeding
scientific growth, a panel of scientists put together a report
urging another tier of prior review for proposed experiments that
could be used by terrorists or hostile nations to make biological
weapons.

The “golden years” just got brighter for aging
Americans with the University of California’s creation of six
endowed chairs in geriatric medicine, the study of medical care for
senior patients.