Laura Loeb always wanted to be a professor. A second-year doctoral student in sociology, Loeb is paying for her six-year degree program mostly through university-allocated stipends and teaching assistant work.

A former UCLA Medical Center researcher was sentenced on April 27 to four months in federal prison for looking at the confidential medical records of co-workers and celebrities such as Tom Hanks, Leonardo DiCaprio and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Professors across the country have been left with less and less buying power as their salaries fail to keep up with inflation rates, according to a survey released by the American Association of University Professors.

In an effort to accommodate the hundreds of families on the child care waitlist, UCLA will be opening a new child care facility in Westwood this fall for UCLA students, faculty and staff.

Deep in the Graduate Students Association archives lay dozens of copies of Carte Italiane, a cultural studies academic journal published by the GSA that was available only through subscription.

Two studies led by UCLA researchers have shed new light on the development and treatment of HIV/AIDS, 29 years after UCLA doctors recorded the first cases of the epidemic.

Incoming university students are going to greater lengths to afford college in hopes that their investment will pay off after graduation, according to a nation-wide survey.

Though he’s been on the stage since the age of 5, second-year nursing student Jason Bernabe is preparing for a completely new kind of presentation.

A former UCLA Medical Center researcher has entered a conditional guilty plea to charges of viewing the confidential medical records of celebrities and other patients.

UCLA students for $2,000: This second-year math economics student taught himself how to read before kindergarten, enjoys Mario Puzo’s novel “The Godfather” and will be appearing on Jeopardy College Championship in February.