Getting inside a person’s head is no longer just the stuff of telekinetic comic book characters—the recently announced National Science Foundation’s Next Generation Networks for Neuroscience (NeuroNex) awards help to…
Five UCLA faculty members, including several IDRE collaborators, were honored with one of 17 Next Generation Networks for Neuroscience (NeuroNex) awards by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to help advance…
Creating a realistic rendering of the human body is hard enough. It would be modest to say Dr. Hong Zhou has turned this challenging task into one that is macroscopically…
You might think of Professor Kendall Houk as the Shonda Rhimes of Organic Chemistry. Like Rhimes, the writer/producer known for her steady stream of hit television shows including “Grey’s Anatomy”…
As for the phrase “as far as the eye can see,” it turns out to be actually not that much. This was proven during the 17th century by Robert Hooke,…
NSF video illustrates IDRE Executive Committee member Andrea Bertozzi’s Research Group’s work on PredPol, a set of algorithms based on earthquake science that pinpoints the location of potential crimes before…
While her grade-school classmates were learning the alphabet and how to count to five, Andrea Bertozzi remembers studying negative numbers and modular arithmetic. Math often gets a bad rap as…
You probably don’t want a doctor who is a general practitioner to perform your open heart surgery. While both a general practitioner and a cardiothoracic surgeon have extensive medical training,…
Each June, thousands of UCLA students graduate and find themselves thrust out of the familiar university environment. Some have secured full-time jobs, others acceptance to graduate schools, and for many…
Imagine stepping into your lab to find that you have captured your very own star on which to conduct research. It’s a nice thought, but housing what amounts to an…