Anticipating further cuts to academic programs next year, the College of Letters and Science has been restructuring its curriculum to match a shrinking budget. Academic departments have continued to implement Challenge 45, reducing upper division requirements to 45 units for each major. Though Challenge 45 proposals first began spring quarter 2009 in response to budgetary constraints, the changes are here to stay, said vice provost of undergraduate education Judi Smith. Read more...

Alumni and admissions staff fanned out across Southeast Asia and the U.S. Read more...

The UCLA Student Call Center is looking for donations, and you might be next on its calling list. Read more...

With only an undergraduate degree in art administration from Scripps College, Kate Sims was going to need something more to advance in her dream career. Read more...

Tatsuo Itoh began his research without realizing the profit he could be making for UCLA. In 2001, the UCLA professor of electrical engineering began to develop new metamaterial structures, which allow for smaller electronic components in products. Read more...