More than a year after California voters elected to give $3
billion in bonds to fund stem cell research, and with the measure
stalled in legal proceedings, professors and researchers met to
discuss the proposition and other related issues at UCLA for a stem
cell symposium Sunday.

The Los Alamos National Security transition team developed and
submitted a basic transition plan to the Department of Energy for
review Friday as part of its process to bring its new management
team into the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

UCLA’s International Institute has been awarded $1 million
to fund research and programs on a range of contemporary Israeli
issues.
The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation gave a chaired
endowment ““ a research budget given to a professor ““ to
the institute’s Israel Studies Program last November.

A new state Senate bill, which takes aim at the University of
California’s compensation practices, calls for limits on the
UC’s fiscal independence if the university fails to undertake
certain reforms.

The University of California, along with its three corporate
partners, began to transition a new management team into the lab
last week after being awarded a contract for the Los Alamos
National Laboratory on Dec.

The Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Wednesday that the
federal government can take funds from individuals’ Social
Security accounts to repay outstanding debts from college
loans.

Chancellor Albert Carnesale declined a student group’s
request for him to endorse the University of California’s
divestment from the Sudanese government, which has been committing
genocide in the Darfur region for more than two years.

The UCLA Medical Center may be receiving a number of new liver
transplant patients after the UC Irvine liver transplant program
shut down last Thursday.
The Irvine center was closed after the federal government pulled
its certification and funding because the medical center had not
met federal standards.

Students from opposing political groups met and engaged in a
heated discussion about domestic and international issues Thursday
on campus in the first of three debates this academic year.

UCLA students studying abroad in France are safe despite rioting
which has created mayhem and caused at least one death in Paris and
surrounding cities, University of California officials said
Monday
None of the 35 students studying in France, 14 based in Paris,
are in schools close to areas that have been under heavy violence,
said Bruce Hanna, director of communications for the UC Education
Abroad Program.