Video game companies and airline industries alike use virtual reality to explore alternate environments. Now, UCLA scientists are working to turn virtual reality into a tool that can help doctors better understand the human body. Read more...
Photo: UCLA scientists are using virtual reality to diagnose prostate cancer patients, which improved diagnosis accuracy by more than 300 percent. It can also be used as an educational tool for medical students. (Courtesy of Erik Dutson)
UCLA faculty members can learn more about the Geffen Academy at UCLA in a meeting Tuesday, officials announced Thursday. Sibyll Carnochan Catalan, who will lead the school when it opens in fall 2017, will host the event in the Charles E. Read more...
Photo: The Geffen Academy’s inaugural leader, Sibyll Carnochan Catalan, will lead a meeting for UCLA faculty members at the Charles E. Young Research Library Tuesday afternoon to explain the new school’s vision. (Daily Bruin file photo)
This weekend, Daniel Cook will fly 2,700 miles from Washington, D.C., to UCLA to honor two uncles he lost to AIDS. Cook, a third-year political science student, will return for a weekend from his quarter in Washington, D.C., to participate in Dance Marathon, an annual 26-hour event in Pauley Pavilion. Read more...
Photo: Daniel Cook will fly back from Washington, D.C., to UCLA for Dance Marathon this weekend. Participating in the event, which he helped organize, is Cook’s way of honoring the family members he lost to AIDS. (Courtesy of Daniel Cook)
Students honored victims of the Easter Sunday terrorist attack that killed 72 people in Lahore, Pakistan, during a vigil in Meyerhoff Park Wednesday night. About 35 students who attended the vigil, organized by the Pakistani Student Association at UCLA and the South Indian Project, held candles and listened to student speakers react to the attack and discuss their hopes for a more unified Pakistan. Read more...
Photo: As the sun set in Meyerhoff Park Wednesday night, about 35 students gathered for a vigil to honor the victims of the Easter Sunday terrorist attack that killed 72 people in Lahore, Pakistan. Members of the Pakistani Student Association at UCLA and the South Indian Project organized the event. (Mackenzie Possee/Daily Bruin)
Waves of Change is one of two new student-run political groups, or slates, that registered to run candidates in the spring undergraduate student government election. Jeremy Peschard, manager of Waves of Change and third-year history and geography/environmental studies student, said Waves of Change aims to be an independent progressive campus movement. Read more...
Photo: Organizers of Waves of Change, a new slate, said they will be advocating for similar political platforms as LET’S ACT!, a slate created in 2013 that aimed to support underserved student groups.(Daily Bruin file photo)
Apartments near planned Metro stations have seen an increase in rent of up to 45 percent, according to a study released in March by an apartment search service. Read more...
The Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science will award $15,000 to undergraduate students who propose research that can contribute to the future of the Internet, school officials announced Tuesday. Read more...
