The UCLA Biomedical Sciences Research Building and Orthopaedic Hospital Research Center was officially dedicated on Sept. 27. Researchers who have been working in the fields of orthopaedic medicine, microbiology, immunology, transplantation, AIDS research, embryonic stem cell research, molecular, cell and developmental biology, and biological chemistry have a new home.
The structure is designed to foster a collaborative research environment and includes state-of-the-art technologies to maximize research exploration.
CALTECH TO DETECT BLACK HOLES IN OUTER SPACE
NASA has given the go-ahead to restart an astrophysics mission that will provide a greater capability than any existing instrument for using high-energy X-Rays to detect black holes. The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, will expand our ability to understand the origins and to predict the destinies of stars and galaxies.
EDITOR OF SCHOOL PAPER WON’T QUIT OVER BUSH*T
The editor of the Colorado State University newspaper says he may be fired but he won’t step down amid criticism about an obscenity used in an editorial about President Bush. The four-word editorial, published in the Rocky Mountain Collegian, said, “Taser this. (Expletive) Bush.”
The newspaper’s student editors decided to print the obscenity because they feel CSU students are apathetic about their freedom of speech.
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