At 10 years old, Youstina and Marina Salama said they were frustrated when they got lower grades than other students for the same answers, which they believed happened because of their Christian faith. Read more...
Photo: Youstina and Marina Salama, two first-year students at UCLA, came to Los Angeles from Alexandria, Egypt, with the goal of going to medical school. (Tamaryn Kong/Daily Bruin)
Francisco Castaneda’s goal for Thursday was just getting one person to pledge support for Ben Allen, a candidate for state Senate. No one picked up Castaneda’s first phone call, so he left a voicemail. Read more...
Photo: Members of Bruin Democrats had a phone banking session Tuesday to help Sandra Fluke’s campaign. (Austin Yu/Daily Bruin senior staff)
UCLA has received an $11 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to make a center that would study biomedical data analysis, or big data computing, UCLA announced Thursday. Read more...
Students who wanted to try out a new computer were able to borrow a Google Chromebook laptop for free this week on campus. As part of Google’s new Chromebook Lending Library program, a site for students to check out the Chromebook line of laptop computers will be on campus until Friday. Read more...
For the second year in a row, undergraduate student government leaders are set to allocate student groups about $35,000 less from a fund meant to support them. Read more...
About five years ago, one of Mark Kaplan’s colleagues – a well-liked professor and scholar – committed suicide. Though Kaplan had been researching suicide for 17 years, his colleague’s death was the first time he was personally affected by the event. Read more...
Photo: (Joseph Chan/Daily Bruin)
Four UCLA researchers recently received the National Institutes of Health Director’s New Innovator Award, officials announced in a press release Wednesday. The annual award recognizes innovative research in science and supports creative new investigators, with each winner receiving $2.3 million for his or her research projects. Read more...
