UCLA medical student Debbie Martins still remembers a 2-year-old girl she met last summer while working with children suffering from malaria and tuberculosis in a Mozambique clinic. Read more...
Photo: Members of the Center for World Health participated in a program in Mozambique. The center gives students an opportunity to do medical research abroad. Courtesy of Gregory Szekeres
Homelessness Awareness Week, an event meant to educate students about homelessness in Los Angeles, is happening until Friday at various locations across campus and on the Hill. Read more...
Arieh Warshel, who won the 2013 Nobel Prize in chemistry, presented a free, public seminar on Monday called “Multiscale Modeling of Complex Biological Systems and Processes.” Warshal and two other scientists were presented the award last year for their work in “the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems.” The event was part of UCLA’s physical chemistry seminar series and was sponsored by the UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and by the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA. Read more...
The chair of the undergraduate student government’s finance committee for the past two school years will resign in May, about a month before her term is set to expire. Read more...
Photo: Current undergraduate student government Finance Committee Chair Cynthia Jasso plans to resign a month early. The position will be filled by her vice chair, Cindy Wang. (Angie Wang/Daily Bruin)
Deanna Jordan was alone in a hospital room in May 2008, with her newborn cradled in her arms. After giving birth to her third child, Kingston, at 22 years old, Jordan realized that she needed to turn her life around. Read more...
Photo: UCLA graduate student Deanna Jordan works with children as part of the Compton Pipeline Task-force, which she created to help give children educational resources. (Miriam Bribiesca/Daily Bruin)
Monday Multiscale Modeling of Complex Biological Systems and Processes: Arieh Warshel, who won the 2013 Nobel Prize in chemistry, will present a seminar on his research. Read more...
A former member of the undergraduate student government election board filed a complaint against councilmembers Friday for breaking student government bylaws when approving this year’s elections calendar. Read more...
