Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger released a $143 billion budget Wednesday that seeks to eliminate the state’s $5.5 billion deficit through fiscal restraint. The budget provides $103.1 billion for general fund spending and sets aside $2 billion in reserves and for limited spending, as well as imposing cuts on programs such as welfare. Read more...

About 30 UCLA students will learn how to lobby and will promote universal health care in Sacramento next Tuesday during the second annual Universal Health Care Lobby Day. Read more...

Outside the door of his office in the Molecular Sciences building, J. Fraser Stoddart’s name plaque is now accompanied by a pink post-it in front of the name. Read more...

By SEDA TERZYAN Bruin contributor [email protected] Tatevik Vardanyan took a seat in a small dark room, alone with only a computer to keep her company. Not knowing what to expect, she nervously awaited the start of the experiment. Read more...

Roland Palvolgyi heard a helicopter drone overhead, and the intercom in the Emergency Department buzzed “ETA, five minutes.” Along with doctors and nurses, Palvolgyi watched as the TV broadcast images of a helicopter landing on the helipad above the UCLA hospital, and the Emergency Medical Technicians unloaded a man onto a stretcher. Read more...

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...

Six and a half million Californians were uninsured some time during the previous year, according to the UCLA California Health Interview Survey. Soon, one man hopes to bring that number down to zero. Read more...