HEALING PLANTS: UCI biologist Eloy Rodriguez, who...

HEALING PLANTS: UCI biologist Eloy Rodriguez, who has snared awards for bringing minority youth and women into the sciences, has received the Martin de la Cruz medal for his research on medicinal properties of plants. . . . The silver medallion, named for a 16th-Century Mexican physician, was awarded by the Mexican Academy of Traditional Medicine. Over the last year, the Irvine scientist visited the Orinoco River in Venezuela and parts of Africa to study the plants used there by animals and people.