Receiving about $750 million each year for research funding, UCLA is the No. 1 public research university in the nation, according to the National Science Foundation, and university researchers say it is continuing to rise as a tight-knit research community. Read more...

In the first months of the 110th Congress, the new Democratic majority has education high on its agenda. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, along with other members of Congress, released a schedule for the first 100 hours of Congress, which includes a goal of cutting student loan interest rates in half, according to Pelosi’s official Web site. Read more...

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa plans to appeal a ruling that rejected his attempts to garner more control over part of Los Angeles Unified School District to the state Supreme Court, his office announced Monday. Read more...

In her two years at UCLA, Sumedha Singh has bought only one textbook, and that’s only because she absolutely needed to. The second-year neuroscience student is often found in Powell Library, her nose buried in textbooks she doesn’t own. Read more...

After three years of juggling a full class load and a part-time research job, Tom Clarke’s hard work will pay off when he heads to Oxford University on the prestigious Marshall Scholarship next fall. Read more...

On Dec. 12, RunObama.com and DraftObama.org delivered a 12,000 signature petition to Senator Barack Obama to encourage him to run for the 2008 presidency. I was only moderately impressed with such a show of support before he even announced his candidacy ““ until my roommate joined the Facebook group “Barack Obama for President in 2008,” whose reach had surpassed that of the other two online organizations. Read more...