Jack Payne’s teachers often give him extra time to complete his tests because he has attention deficit disorder, also known as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. “Every time I tell peers about the advantages I receive for having ADD, such as extra time (on assignments) or (being allowed to use) a computer during an exam … they tell me it’s unfair,” said Payne, a first-year international development studies student. Read more...
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Campus Queries is a new Q&A series in which Daily Bruin readers send in science-related questions for UCLA professors and experts to answer. Each week, the Daily Bruin will choose a different question to be explored. Read more...
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UCLA Health launched an institute Thursday that will work toward creating personalized treatments for patients. The Precision Health institute will work on genetic and genomic medicine initiatives, according to a letter by UCLA Chancellor Gene Block, vice chancellor for health sciences John Mazziotta and David Geffen School of Medicine dean Kelsey Martin. Read more...
About 40 UCLA students and community members gathered in front of Kerckhoff Hall Thursday afternoon to protest recent actions by President Donald Trump. The United Arab Society, Muslim Student Association and Young Progressives Demanding Action at UCLA organized the “No Ban, No Wall // Rally and March” in response to Trump’s executive order barring Syrian refugees indefinitely and citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S. Read more...
Photo: UCLA students gathered in front of Kerckhoff Hall on Thursday afternoon to speak out against President Donald Trump’s executive orders on immigration and the border wall. (Laura Uzes/Daily Bruin)
The University of California terminated a $25 million contract with Wells Fargo in November and will terminate another $450 million of contracts over the next two months. Read more...
Photo: The University of California announced it would pull out about $450 million in contracts and investments in Wells Fargo. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Hundreds of Chinese UCLA students make their tuition payments through a website each quarter instead of directly to the school. Easy Transfer, the first tuition payment service in China, converts tuition payments from Chinese yuan to United States dollars and transfers them directly to the school’s accounting department, said Yuxing Liu, the company’s vice president of business development and a UCLA alumnus. Read more...
Photo: Easy Transfer, the first tuition payment service in China, converts tuition payments from Chinese yuan to U.S. dollars and transfers them directly to the school’s accounting department. (Miriam Bribiesca/Photo editor)
UCLA environmental researchers are anxious about the future of federal funding for their research after President Donald Trump temporarily froze grants from a federal agency. The Trump administration lifted the executive order that temporarily suspended all funds from the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday, but environmental scientists still have concerns about the future of their research. Read more...
