July 03, 2008
The growing electoral clout of Asian Americans could play an important role in the upcoming presidential election, but still more can be done to increase voter registration and citizenship rates among this population, UCLA researchers say in newly issued report.
July 03, 2008
Researchers at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA have solved the structure of a class of proteins known as sodium glucose co-transporters (SGLTs), which pump glucose into cells. These transport proteins are used in the treatment of chronic diarrhea through oral rehydration therapy, saving the lives of millions of children each year. The solution of the SGLT structure will accelerate the development of new drugs designed to treat patients with diabetes and cancer.
July 02, 2008
The Fowler Museum at UCLA has been given an important collection of Japanese textiles from Dr. Jeffrey Krauss of Potomac, Md. The new collection nearly doubles the size of the museum's existing holdings of Japanese textiles, making the Fowler an important destination for scholars of Japan's textile arts.
July 02, 2008
A program initiated at UCLA and supported by the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery is reaching out to military families to help prevent the personal and family problems long-term and multiple deployments can bring.
July 01, 2008
The Gerald Loeb Awards, announced Monday night in New York, are among the highest honors in journalism, recognizing the work of journalists whose contributions illuminate the world of business, finance and the economy.
June 30, 2008
Built to meet the community's evolving health care needs with compassionate care and pioneering medical research for decades to come, UCLA's new state-of-the-art Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center opened its doors on June 29.
June 29, 2008
UCLA's new state-of-the-art academic medical facility ― home to the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA and the Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA ― has opened its doors for patient care following today's relocation of more than 275 hospital patients and 60 psychiatric patients to the new structure.
June 26, 2008
An unprecedented gift of $6 million from newspaper publisher and philanthropist David C. Copley will endow an innovative new center for costume design at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. The center will be the first of its kind in the world.
June 25, 2008
Beginning in late June and running through the month of July, undergraduates on UCLA archaeological digs in seven exotic locations all over the world will file blogs, providing ample opportunity for armchair Indiana Joneses to, well, dig in!
June 22, 2008
UCLA researchers have discovered that an FDA-approved drug reverses the brain dysfunction caused by a genetic disease known as tuberous sclerosis complex, or TSC. And because half of TSC patients also suffer from autism, the findings offer new hope for addressing learning disorders associated with autism. The findings appear in the June 22 online edition of the journal Nature Medicine.
