The New Scientists
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PROGRAMS TEACHING GRADUATE STUDENTS TO THINK BEYOND THE TRADITIONAL
BOUNDARIES THAT SEPARATE DISCIPLINES, UCLA IS NURTURING THE NEXT
GENERATION OF SCIENCE EXPLORERS
Illustration by Melinda Beck
YEARS AGO, THERE WAS NO SUCH FIELD AS BIOINFORMATICS. NO NEUROENGINEERING.
NO MATERIALS TO CREATE DEVICES SMALLER THAN THE DIAMETER OF A HUMAN
HAIR. IF THEY EXISTED AT ALL, IT WAS ONLY IN THE MINDS OF VISIONARY
however, these are among the hottest new fields of inquiry, fertile
treasure grounds that are being mined for scientific riches —
more effective therapies to fight disease, answers to the mysteries
surrounding the circuitry of the human brain, retinal implants for
the blind, low-energy sources of light.
hunt for such new discoveries is not an easy one and requires the
work of a wholly new kind of scientist, one who is trained to work
and communicate across the boundaries of divergent disciplines.