While the actual UCLA transfer application is relatively straightforward, the more difficult aspect of being a transfer student comes after acceptance. Integration into the UCLA community is not easy for every student. Read more...

While most of his fellow graduating students entered the work force or transitioned into their respective graduate schools, UCLA alumnus Saman Kashani did something unconventional after graduating from UCLA. Kashani, feeling burnt out by school, moved to Suriname, South America. He lived there for a little more than two years in affiliation with the Peace Corps, where he assisted local physicians. Read more...

For 33 UCLA staff members, losing has never felt so good. Inspired by the NBC television series, "The Biggest Loser," these participants have launched their own weight-loss competition, complete with financial rewards. Read more...

UCLA officials are revising lab safety protocols as well as the overall safety of the laboratories in response to a laboratory accident which left a research assistant severely burned, Read more...

UCLA's ongoing construction project, the Life Sciences Replacement Building, is currently on track to meet its due date of spring 2010. Read more...

Freshmen enrollment across the UC system will be cut by thousands beginning next school year if the UC Regents decide tomorrow to pass a proposed enrollment reduction plan. Read more...

Fifty-eight UCLA students currently enrolled in the School of Nursing are on track to graduate in 2010, constituting the first class of students to have completed the undergraduate nursing program since 1995. Read more...