While stuck at home in a hip-to-toe leg brace for six months, Cameron Cohen taught himself how to design an app for the iPhone and iPod. He's donating part of his profits to Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital.
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Atomic structure
The 50th anniversary of a key advance in science — the first three-dimensional structure of a protein — will be marked Wednesday by a free California NanoSystems Institute symposium. Professor emeritus Richard Dickerson (with a student in 1986) will speak. Information
Operation Haiti
A dozen UCLA trauma and emergency-room doctors and nurses plan to work in Haiti for two weeks. UCLA Today
Meals on wheels
Bruins are lining up at food trucks brought in under contract as temporary replacements for the Bombshelter eatery. Story
Afghan literature in exile
In the tumult of the past three decades, Afghan writers have created a body of "almost a homeless literature" produced largely in exile, a gathering in Royce Hall was told.
The doctor is in
Dr. A. Eugene Washington, an internationally renowned clinical investigator and health policy scholar, was named vice chancellor of UCLA Health Sciences and dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine.Recent Stories
Bullet-shaped virus has potential to fight cancer, HIV
Childhood obesity: Junk food ads, not TV viewing, is what matters
The association between television viewing and childhood obesity is directly related to children's exposure to commercials that advertise unhealthy foods, according to a new UCLA School of Public Health study.
Lucie Cheng, 70, ex-director of Asian American Studies Center
Startup joins tech incubator to develop contactless electronics
The technology being developed by WaveConnex will potentially enable wide-ranging applications in the areas of 'smart cards,' Internet infrastructure and entertainment electronics.
Report: charter schools' political success is civil rights failure
Charter schools stratify students by race, class, and possibly language, and are more racially isolated than traditional public schools in virtually every state and large metropolitan area in the country, says the Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA.
New campus-wide committee, consultant to guide cost-cutting
The Restructuring Steering Committee will oversee efforts to make academic and administrative operations more efficient, less expensive and less dependent on state support.
'Comet' turns out to be never-seen debris from asteroid collision
'Broad spectrum' antiviral found that fights multitude of viruses
The compound was found to be effective against viruses that cause some of the world's deadliest diseases, such as AIDS, Ebola and Rift Valley fever.
Why the mirror lies: what we see is all the brain's fault
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Iran Revolution
Feb. 11 marks the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, which brought Shiite Muslim clerics to power. Protests against the current government and President Mahmoud Ahmadenijad are expected. UCLA has experts.
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