As students pile their plates with often calorie-heavy food served to them by residential restaurants, scientists and doctors at UCLA and elsewhere are working to determine the relationship between an individual's genetics and their probability of becoming obese. Read more...

Selena Tan, a third-year psychology student, had a best friend who ate only Jell-O for one meal each day. Read more...

Every year many high school students must choose among top-tier California schools such as UC Berkeley, USC and UCLA. Read more...

Driving down Gayley Avenue, you are forced to come to a dead stop as a car, attempting to parallel park into a tight spot, juts out into traffic. Read more...

California lawmakers will begin reviewing a draft Thursday of a proposed bill aimed at protecting researchers who conduct animal testing from animal rights activists. Read more...

Students will experience firsthand how hunger affects the homeless and other residents of Los Angeles and the global community Wednesday night at the third annual Hunger Banquet at UCLA, cosponsored by the Social Justice Alliance and the Hunger Project. According to Oxfam America's Web site, an international relief organization that also assists students across the country in planning events like hunger banquets, more than 850 million people suffer from chronic hunger. Read more...

The University of California released a report of its admission statistics for fall 2008 on Monday morning, which included tables and information breaking down admission rates by campus, gender, income group and ethnic demographics. Read more...