Samer Araabi flew home to the United States on Saturday after a summer studying abroad in Lebanon was cut short. On Tuesday, the fourth-year business economics and political science student found himself on a bus to Syria searching for a way back to America. Read more...

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Politicians to meet at UCLA to discuss health care Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his opponent, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Phil Angelides, along with others, will be coming to the UCLA campus today for a roundtable discussion about the different problems surrounding the state, specifically health care. Read more...

Clarification appended To their surprise, UCLA scientists found that males and females really are not as different as they thought when it comes to the expression of genes in their brains, though they found significant differences in other body tissues. Read more...

When President Bush vetoed legislation to expand federally supported embryonic stem cell research last Wednesday, he only severed the lines of communication between Americans who support scientific expansion and those who have yet to explain why they don’t. Read more...

James Bruno, a UCLA education professor, died July 11 of cancer. He was 65. Bruno, who had been a faculty member since 1968, helped found the university’s education minor. Read more...

In the last month, UCLA researchers have published two studies that contribute to the search for both the prevention and treatment of AIDS. A group of researchers from the UCLA AIDS Institute and the Los Alamos National Laboratory published a study exploring why some mothers with HIV-1 transfer the virus to their babies through the uterus while others do not, leading them closer to finding a vaccine for HIV. Read more...