The UCLA School of Public Health is looking to tap into the power of social networks, in an attempt to encourage adolescents from 13 to 17 to take better care of their health. According to health care insurer Health Net and UCLA, the two are looking to study the use of Web-based, social media to improve preventative care and decrease emergency room visits among adolescents. UCLA and Health grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health, and will compare how using social media compares to more traditional, health outreach efforts.

as part of its Google Focused Research Awards, to help fund research in ares of study that are of key interest to the company. Among the 12 projects, which include 31 professors at 10 universities, are one on the use of mobile phones as data collection devices for public health an environmental monitoring, which includes Deborah Estrin at UCLA; work on energy efficiency in computing, which includes Fred Chong at UC Santa Barbara; and another grant focused on energy efficiency in computing to Tajana Simunic Rosing, Steven Swanson and Amin Vahdat at UCSD. Search engine giant Google announced Tuesday that the firm is funding a number of University research projects, including a group of researchers at UC San Diego, a researcher at UC Santa Barbara, and a researcher in Los Angeles.

Almost all of the finalists were MBAs (Stanford x2, Wharton, Harvard x2, MIT, UCLA).  I also know many people who never studied business as an undergrad who appreciated the knowledge that they gained as an MBA.  If you had a non-business undergrad and want to study for a master’s in business – go for it!  This is part of my ongoing series called “ Start-up Lessons .” 8221;