By choosing to run its initial public offering as an auction, Google Inc. ““ developers of the online search engine ““ is giving students a chance they would not have had otherwise. Unlike traditional tech initial public offerings, where shares tend to only be available to friends, family and select clients of the underwriters, Google’s […]
Author Archives: Colleen Honigsberg
Researchers aim to find quick fix for disorder
Sufferers of a common psychiatric illness can make a conscious decision to change their biology. Individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder can change their brain activity through cognitive behavioral therapy over the course of a year, according to a recent UCLA study. The same researchers, hailing from the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute and biobehavioral sciences department, are now […]
Speculation circles Bush’s economic impact
The shortest recession since the United States began keeping records in the early 20th century appears to be over. After a peak in March 2001, the U.S. economy went into recession. But with a rising GDP, rising stock market prices and other indicators of an expanding economy, an economic boom seems impending ““ just in […]
Professor develops new gene therapy for cancer
UCLA researchers might have overcome one of the major hurdles in using gene therapy to treat cancer: the question of how to best administer the treatment. Gene therapies are currently administered to the body in a variety of ways, such as intravenously ““ injecting genetic material into the veins ““ or intralymphatically ““Â injecting it into […]
Social Security: An impending future calls for reform
Most of us can probably remember the Saturday Night Live parody of the 2000 presidential debates in which a mock Al Gore was asked to sum up his campaign in one word, to which he responded “lockbox.” Most of us can also remember the debates themselves, in which Gore and George W. Bush spent a […]
Event to give entrepreneurs a leg up
For any students interested in a career in business, tomorrow might offer a head start. The Entrepreneur Association of UCLA Anderson School of Management is putting on its annual Entrepreneur’s Conference. The conference is one of UCLA Anderson’s largest events, usually enticing a crowd of hundreds of students, alumni, staff and local business leaders. Tomorrow’s […]
A closer look: Bush’s policies disappoint many
With the media debate over the presidential election in full force, many students are disappointed by the lack of attention given to an issue prevalent to many — the environment. The voting records of George W. Bush and John Kerry show their notably different approaches toward pollution, conservation, and other environmental issues. Kerry’s voting record […]