Monthly Archives: July 2009

UCLA Sci|Art Nanolab Finals Animation

UCLA Sci|Art Nanolab Finals Animation

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7/10/09

Today was the day of our midterm presentations. Our project proposal was to find a successful way to treat HIV by finding a way to attack the virus and keep it from multiplying. The immune system is the body’s natural defense system against foreign substances. Cells that are part of this system are leukocytes, also […]

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Day 9th.

Today is pretty much the last day, we are currently doing the presentations and I just finished mine. It was a pretty amazing experience being to present the project that we have been working on for so long and everyone’s presentation is pretty solid and creative. =) fun stuff.  All the videos that people made […]

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Fluortion-Shaun Herzig, Elana Hubert, Anna Quincy, John Bloore

To come up with our final idea we brainstormed multiple ideas and then whittled down the ideas until we got to one final idea. Our idea was nanobots that make microtears in a persons muscles to promote muscle growth. We took the idea to the counselors at C(n)SI who recommended that we make it more […]

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Who Did What?

Ryder Moody thought of uses for our product and found images of each use on the internet. These images were then edited with Adobe Photoshop to create the desired glowing effect. He also came up with the way the lens converts infrared signals into visible lights. Because there is infrared light naturally, we had to […]

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Day 8: The End

I once had a teacher who, on the first day of class, walked in, declared loudly, “The beginning is the end,” and then promptly sat down to continue class without another word. We were perplexed. Surely he had not intended to start the session on such a somber note.However, he had a purpose.    The […]

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7/14/09

Today, Victoria Vesna, one of the directors of the Science / Art Nanolab, presented the Daily introduction. We were then given about an hour and a half to work on our final project before lunch. After lunch, experiments were set up for us – FerroFluids and Photolithography. These hands-on labs directly showed me the connection […]

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Blog 8: wheeeee

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Day 4.

Today was quite a tiring day. I think my favorite part was the DESMA presentations that we saw. Each one was creative in their own way and it really sparked up a lot of interest. I am interested in Graphic Design to begin with, and this allowed me to being thinking about focusing with flash […]

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7/13/09

Today’s daily introduction was about shapes in general, and classified under the category of shapes included shapes in nature. Crystals are atoms arranged in a specific packing sequence, and opals are clusters of nanospheres that reflect light. When you think about it, the solar system actually represents the shape of the atom. Our perception of […]

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