Thursday, April 9



Student creates startup to facilitate peer-to-peer tutoring

Parsa Rezvani’s father struggled in his high school English class when he immigrated from Iran until he befriended some American classmates. In exchange for helping them in their math classes, he received help in passing English. Read more...

Photo: Parsa Rezvani, a fourth-year economics student, founded Tutorfly to connect students with their peers for academic support. (Stella Huang/Daily Bruin)


UCLA Health provides at-home colon cancer screening kits to patients

UCLA Health is collaborating with marketing experts to incentivize patients to screen themselves at home for cancer. Starting in May, UCLA Health, with the help of researchers at the Anderson School of Management, provided custom letters with take-home colorectal cancer screening kits to encourage patients to use them. Read more...

Photo: (Daily Bruin file photo) UCLA Health officials collaborated with professors from the Anderson School of Business to create custom letters to increase patient use of take-home colon cancer screening kits.


UC Board of Regents postpones vote on tuition increase to May

The University of California Board of Regents deferred voting on a tuition increase until its May meeting. The Board of Regents was originally scheduled to vote on a 2.5 percent tuition hike at its Wednesday meeting, but UC President Janet Napolitano said she thinks the University should advocate for increased funding from the state legislature. Read more...

Photo: The University of California Board of Regents delayed voting on increasing tuition, following opposition to tuition hikes from student groups. (Chengcheng Zhang/Daily Bruin)



UCLA arranges mock graduate school courses for transfer students

UCLA held mock graduate school classes Tuesday to help transfer students find out if graduate school is for them. More than a hundred students attended Transfer On: Pathways and Possibilities, hosted by BruinX and the Transfer Student Center in the UCLA School of Law. Read more...

Photo: Tara Vijayan, who co-lectured a medical school class, organized the class into three parts, focusing on lab diagnostics, treatments and discussion of an in-depth case study. (Daniel Miller/Daily Bruin)