Personality is an aspect rarely consulted when students consider which career to pursue.
Lula Fecadu, a fourth-year economics student, recently discovered after taking a personality test in a new UCLA class that level of extroversion may influence which careers she is best fit for.
"I never actually took (personality) into account," Fecadu said. Read more...
Campus, News
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October 27, 2:07 am
Career center offers class on postgraduation career options
Campus, News
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October 27, 2:05 am
UCLA campus a political hot spot
Former UCLA student Gabe Rose distinctly remembers March 5, 2007, when more than 1,000 students crowded shoulder-to-shoulder in Kerckhoff patio to hear Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards speak about the moral responsibility of the United States. Read more...
A Closer Look, News
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October 27, 12:04 am
Alumna in touch with her spiritual side
It was midnight, and Christine Wang felt edgy. The then-third-year anthropology student worked the night shift at The Coffee Bean in Westwood. After locking the doors, Wang began the walk back to her apartment across from the cemetery on Veteran Avenue. Her discomfort heightened as she walked down the dark, empty street. Read more...
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Christine Wang, a UCLA alumna, describes herself as “sensitive.” She said ghosts have appeared to her since she was 3 years old.
A Closer Look, News
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October 27, 12:00 am
Skeptics of the spiritual cite lack of proof
When it comes to the paranormal, William Newman, UCLA professor of earth and space sciences, prescribes to a quote by his graduate school mentor and author Carl Sagan "“ "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." Read more...
A Closer Look, News
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October 26, 11:47 pm
UCLA lab researched parapsychology in the ’70s
The phone calls would come in, and the voice on the other side would ask, "Do you believe in ghosts?" This wasn't a prank. Read more...
News, Westwood
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October 26, 2:20 am
Balancing the pre-med schedule
Last week, Tracy Wang traveled to St. Louis, New York and Chicago, tackling numerous medical school interviews before returning to UCLA the night before a midterm. Read more...
News, Science & Health
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October 26, 2:16 am
Professor has new book
As a first-year resident in psychiatry at an unfamiliar hospital in Boston, Dr. Gary Small was nervous about putting his textbook knowledge into practice. Read more...
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Dr. Gary Small, a UCLA professor,
co-wrote a book about his most interesting psychiatry cases with his wife.
Courtesy of GARY SMALL