A professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine recently received a $6.5 million grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to study the influence of pesticides on Parkinson's disease. Read more...

Fourth-year political science student Hugo Muñoz recounted his childhood experience with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. "My teacher grabbed me by my shoulder, took off her sweatshirt and tied me to the chair," Muñoz said. Read more...

Michael Kahn remembers the moment he fell in love with political cartoons. Read more...

Dickson Court became the center of attention Sunday during the second annual Los Angeles VisionWalk, which involved 450 participants who raised $80,000 for eye disease research. Read more...

LAS VEGAS "”mdash; When Claire Martin, Liana Dillaway, and Danielle Barnes crammed into a bed barely suited for two in a small Vegas motel, only to wake up at 7 a.m. on Saturday, it wasn't to get a head start at the casinos. Read more...

The Quarter in Washington Program, offered by the Center for American Politics and Public Policy, gives students the opportunity to take classes, research a topic that interests them and intern at one of the many organizations in Washington, D.C. Read more...

University of California President Mark G. Yudof released a statement last month announcing his decision not to sign the Amethyst Initiative, a petition calling for debate on the effects of the current legal drinking age in the U.S. Read more...