When Shelby picked up the phone during one of her night shifts at the UCLA Peer Helpline, the girl on the other end was already crying. Read more...

Graduate students looking for help with their writing ““ whether it’s a dissertation or a research-grant proposal ““ can find it at the UCLA Graduate Student Writing Center. Read more...

In the final stages of construction on the Engineering 1 Replacement Building, an unknown suspect stole copper piping from the construction site on Monday, resulting in an excess cost of $15,000 and setting the project back two days. Read more...

University of California admissions data released this morning by the UC Office of the President shows an increase in the number of first-year black students admitted to UCLA for fall 2007. Read more...

Admissions season is here, and as campus tours wind their way through UCLA, the carefully manicured lawns may play as important a role in prospective students’ decisions as quality of dorm food. Read more...

Due to the increasing cost of participating in Medicaid, many drug companies will no longer sell birth control to colleges at discounted prices, causing the cost of the pill to increase on campus. Read more...

When students walk around campus, they expect to see lecture halls and libraries; few expect to see a towering power plant adjacent to their path. Through the use of its cogeneration facility, UCLA supplies most of its own electricity, cooled water and steam, which is only the start of how the university uses energy efficiently, said David Johnson, director of energy services and utilities. Read more...