Adapted from UCLA Health Newsroom article More than 700,000 Americans were hospitalized due to illnesses associated with the seasonal flu during the 2014–15 flu season, according to federal estimates. A…
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UCLA Researcher Prepares New Wave of Neuroscientists for Big Data, Machine Learning
“My college roommate was a philosopher,” so goes the story of Dr. Mark Cohen. Cohen’s isn’t one that involves an early onset of an existential crisis nor is it the…
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Baymax, Stretchable Phones, and Fundamentals of Soft Materials
In the animated Disney film Big Hero 6, the character Baymax is a loveable, squishy robot that resembles the Michelin Man and is programmed to be a sidekick and protector…
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Leave Nothing to the Imagination: The Mathematics of Visual Effects
In show business, it’s all about who you know. But for UCLA Mathematics Professor and IDRE-related faculty Joseph Teran, it’s all about snow. His research into the mechanics of ice…
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Bonus Materials: Real World Applications of Chemical Materials
Dr. Anastassia Alexandrova is living in a materials world; she is concerned with the study of new chemical materials through the use of computational design and multi-scale modeling. To Alexandrova,…
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On the Mind: Grant Seeks to Understand the Brain
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…
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NSF Awards $1.82M for Neuronex Neurotechnology Hub at UCLA
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…
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Micro-Scale Modeling’s Big Impact
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…
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The Prince of Publications
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”…
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Farther Than the Eye Can See
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,…
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