UCLA First Thursdays have something for everyone. At the Westwood Farmers Market on Broxton Avenue, you can stock up on locally sourced fruits and veggies, as well as knowledge via unique pop-up events featuring UCLA educators and storytellers. As the street lights turn on, so do our imaginative, interactive night events with music, art, dancing and more. A partnership of UCLA and the Westwood Village, First Thursdays will offer the community a different thematic experience each month.
KCRW’s Warren Olney leads a discussion with UCLA’s Chancellor Gene Block and other university leaders about the difficult issues that today’s colleges confront.
Why do some people infected with Valley fever develop a potentially fatal form of the disease that ravages their body while most experience only mild symptoms or none at all?
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases awarded UCLA’s Dr. Manish Butte and his research team an $8.4 million grant to study this and other questions related to genetic risk factors and immune responses to the disease. Valley fever, occurs when people breathe in microscopic spores of Coccidioides, a fungus present in the soil in some regions of the Western U.S. and other locations.
The UCLA Alumni Association presents Bruin Business 100, a program to celebrate the hard work, talent and innovation of exceptional alumni business owners, founders and visionaries. The deadline to self-nominate or nominate a Bruin business owner in your community is Monday, Feb. 28.
Many people who get infected with COVID-19 continue to have symptoms for months or years afterward, even after the infection has cleared and viral tests come back negative. These lingering symptoms can include shortness of breath, coughing, headaches, brain fog, chest pain and more.
A newly launched UCLA Space Medicine Fellowship, the first of its kind in the U.S., aims to develop the next generation of flight surgeons who will support the health, safety, and well-being of human space flight and planetary expeditions.
The level of virus in her blood was “undetectable through this whole period,” said Yvonne J. Bryson, an infectious-diseases physician at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. “This provides hope for the use of cord blood cells … to achieve HIV remission for individuals requiring transplant for other diseases,” Bryson said. “This provides additional proof that HIV reservoirs can be cleared sufficiently to afford remission and cure.”
