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...

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...

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...