The University of California has pulled its investments from controversial areas before, most prominently tobacco (in 2001) and companies in Sudan (in 2006). Read more...
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April 11, 2:17 am
UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture push for cutting edge designs
Chinh Nguyen arranges wooden blocks, each in the shape of a miniaturized living space: doors, staircases, walls that are barely an inch long. Read more...
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Chinh Nguyen, a graduate student in architecture, works on a model of a modern Venice, Calif. home he constructed using a laser cutter. This is one of several innovations that have changed the workflow of architecture students in the past years.
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April 11, 2:11 am
UCLA art students create projects on a budget with recycled materials
Brown paper polygons seemed to creep out of the drawer and onto the side of the wall, creating an amorphous shape. Read more...
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Fourth-year art student Carmel Ni uses a room in her mother’s childhood home as a canvas for a gallery installation.
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April 11, 2:09 am
Fiberglass makes architecture debut in UCLA students’ project for the Pacific Design Center
Students walking past Perloff Hall last quarter stopped often, intrigued by what looked like neon strings wrapping themselves around beach balls. Read more...
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Jon Burton and Matthew Corbitt, graduate students in architecture, created a project (above) using string made of fiberglass filament.
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March 15, 1:07 am
Jessica McGuire, captain of the women's rowing team, maintains high spirits while surviving a tumor
Jessica McGuire grinned and asked, "Want to see it?" She lifted her shirt, showing a foot-long pink scar that snaked around from her back to just below her sports bra. Underneath were marks left behind by two half-inch incisions. Read more...
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Jessica McGuire, the captain of the UCLA women’s rowing team, had an operation last year to remove a football-sized tumor from inside her chest. McGuire has maintained her tenacity and sense of humor in the course of her recovery.
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March 15, 1:01 am
Kidney chains, a string of transplants for patients and donors, help to save multiple lives
For 30 years, Gail Shaevel's kidneys slowly gave up on her. Read more...
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March 15, 1:00 am
Robot surgeons
Standard surgery "“ that of large incisions, permanent scars and teams of gloved and scrubbed doctors who hover over their patients on the operating table "“ may soon give way to something else entirely. Read more...
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Dr. Erik Dutson and researchers at UCLA’s Center for Advanced Surgical and Interventional Technology are working on the “operating room of the future,” a vision that heavily incorporates robots.