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May 21, 9:25 pm

UCLA team compiles coronavirus-related data, creates statistical modeling tool

A UCLA professor and students created an artificial intelligence-based tool to collect and correlate data related to the COVID-19 pandemic easily. Majid Sarrafzadeh, a computer science professor who specializes in health analytics, created the tool Olivia to reduce the difficulty of generating models and understanding data science. Read more...

Photo: A UCLA computer science professor and a group of students created an artificial intelligence tool that can be used to simplify data collection and the modeling of COVID-19 data. This was done with the aim of making data science more accessible to any user. (Screen capture by Sakshi Joglekar/Daily Bruin)

News, Science & Health

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May 21, 4:40 pm

Epidemiology adjunct professor helps China develop, implement COVID-19 response

A UCLA professor helped control China’s COVID-19 epidemic when it first emerged, but he worries about rising global COVID-19 cases. Zunyou Wu, an adjunct professor of epidemiology in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and the chief epidemiologist of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, was among the first scientists to study SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, when it first surfaced in Wuhan, China, in late December. Read more...

Photo: Zunyou Wu, an adjunct professor of epidemiology in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and chief epidemiologist of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, was a key figure in China’s fight against COVID-19 and helped control its spread. (Courtesy of Zunyou Wu)

California, News, Science & Health

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May 19, 7:08 pm

UCLA, UCSF, CDPH collaborate to train coronavirus contact tracers

UCLA is partnering with the University of California, San Francisco, and the California Department of Public Health to train contact tracers to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more...

Photo: UCLA, partnered with UCSF and CADPH, are training contact tracers to combat the spread of COVID-19. Contact tracing is important as it helps stop people who have come in contact with COVID-19, spread the infection further by advising self isolation and testing. The trainees in the program are mostly civil servants who are not able to continue working due to the pandemic. (Kanishka Mehra/Assistant Photo editor)

Los Angeles, News, Science & Health

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May 8, 10:29 pm

UCLA experts show LA air quality has improved, but encourage thinking long-term

Air quality in Los Angeles has improved during the COVID-19 pandemic, UCLA professors and the Environmental Protection Agency confirmed in April. Stay-at-home orders have reduced road traffic, which is a major source of air pollution, said Yifang Zhu, associate director of the Center for Clean Air at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. Read more...

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May 8, 9:38 pm

UCLA professors, alumni help create more sensitive coronavirus test kit

UCLA bioengineering professors and alumni have developed a more accurate COVID-19 testing kit using a new RNA extraction technique. Daniel Kamei, a bioengineering professor at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, supervised two doctoral students who founded Phase Scientific along with Kamei and UCLA professor Benjamin Wu. Read more...

Photo: UCLA professors and alumni have helped develop a more accurate COVID-19 testing kit using a new RNA extraction technique that analyzes liquid material rather than solid. The group is also part of Phase Scientific, a biotechnology company working to test and produce these kits. (Courtesy of Felix Chao)

A Closer Look, News, Science & Health

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May 7, 2:52 pm

Move to online learning has positives and negatives for students with disabilities

The transition to online classes has been a mixed bag for Will Higbie, a third-year aerospace engineering student. Higbie has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by difficulty regulating attention. Read more...

Photo: Students with disabilities face unique challenges adjusting to online education. In a few ways, however, the change has made things easier.(Daily Bruin file photo)


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