Interim Chancellor Norman Abrams was honored on the terrace of Fowler Museum on Friday by the UCLA Black Faculty and Staff Association for his efforts in diversifying the campus.

One of the few pioneering scholars of Middle Eastern Studies in the early 1970s, Professor Nikki R. Keddie is still making a splash authoring a new book.

Five UCLA professors have been awarded 2007 Guggenheim fellowship awards for extraordinary achievements in their fields.
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation grants fellowships to professionals in all fields except for the performing arts.

In the aftermath of the shootings that occurred at Virginia Tech earlier this week, the University of California is now re-evaluating its own security policies.
Authorities have been quick to assure the UCLA community that they are doing everything they can to assess current security measures, as well as to actively continue to seek out ways to improve safety.

In an attempt to increase enrollment, UC Merced plans to implement a new program that would guarantee students admission to one of four other University of California campuses on the condition that they first attend the Central Valley campus for at least two years.

The University of California-managed Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has been commissioned to create a new nuclear warhead, but critics are questioning the UC’s involvement in the development of nuclear weapons.

Amid heated opposition from critics of nuclear proliferation, the National Nuclear Security Administration has chosen a design submitted by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for its Reliable Replacement Warhead.

Left- and right-brained Bruin thinkers will be competing in this week’s North v. South Campus War which aims to raise money for The Hunger Project.
The war is being put on by the fellowship program of the Undergraduate Students Association Council, which seeks to get new UCLA students involved in USAC and plugged into campus life.

A bill that would require pre-teenaged girls in California to become vaccinated against the human papilloma virus has controversy brewing between advocates of the vaccine and those who are concerned that parents should have more say and that the vaccine will promote promiscuity.

The UCLA campus is home to a sea of students in the throes of academic competition, and some say they are left feeling overwhelmed and searching for help.