An interdisciplinary team will produce a database that analyzes text, images, video and audio from different sources of media and identify large-scale patterns within the data.
Among his many accomplishments, the biostatistics professor earned worldwide recognition for predicting the magnitude of the HIV/AIDS epidemic beginning in the mid-1980s.
Dr. Bill Piskorowski, associate dean for community-based clinical education at the UCLA School of Dentistry, was selected as a Fellow by the American College of Dentists.
Elaine Hsiao studies the trillions of microbes the body contains that impact health and disease, and seeks to understand how they influence the brain and behavior.
Dr. Roger Lo, UCLA professor of dermatology, has been awarded $100,000 to conduct research that helps doctors and scientists better understand cancers that affect women.
Yifang Zhu will lead the research aimed at increasing understanding of how e-cigarettes affect human health and providing useful data to the federal government.
UCLA’s MarySue Heilemann, who was a delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, says the experience will influence her teaching and scholarship.
Rebeca Méndez’s exhibit is the 17th installation of the New York museum’s “Select” series, which investigates the interaction of humanity, nature, design and science.
Among other applications, quantum systems hold the promise of new sensitive sensors, with a variety of possible medical, national security and scientific applications.