Responding to problems that have caused three California organ transplant programs to close in the past year, California lawmakers stressed the need for better regulation of organ transplant programs at a hearing Tuesday. Read more...

After months of debate in the California state legislature, a bill that would have forced the University of California to hold all executive compensation meetings in open session is dead for the year. Read more...

There was something beautifully alien about the Arctic landscape. Professor Laurence Smith looked beneath his plane as it flew over the broken Alaskan tundra. There were no trees, but rather a vast white sheet broken into geometric patterns and shapes, resembling hexagonal tiles. Read more...

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Amid the noise of whistles, shouts and car horns, hundreds of UCLA workers picketed on Westwood Boulevard on Thursday afternoon in protest of university wage offers during ongoing contract negotiations with their union. Read more...

Nine people on a federal commission spent the past year working to draft a proposal in an attempt to standardize students’ benefits from their college educations. Read more...