UCLA ranked second for research and development spending in the sciences and engineering among universities, according to a recent report released by the National Science Foundation. Read more...

When H. Samy Alim, a visiting anthropology professor, does his research, he gets his information straight from those creating the culture he cares about. That is why, from Juvenile to Jay-Z, he has interviewed more than 100 hip-hop artists. Read more...

Statements made by three state senators last week that urged University of California President Robert Dynes to either step down or be fired indicate itchy trigger fingers, not judicious aim. Read more...

Hiking up Bruin Walk, many UCLA students receive a handful of fliers, especially during undergraduate student government election season, and the cost of the casually distributed campaign materials can add up to quite a bit of money. Read more...

Deteriorated and forgotten heroic films, classic Hollywood movies and old home videos have come back to life at various screenings at UCLA. Providing students a glimpse into films from the silent era through the 1980s, Hollywood studios are working together with UCLA’s Film and Television Archive and the Moving Image Archive Studies graduate program to take restored films of the past and screen them to the public. Read more...

Students in years past have become used to the barrage of fliers and campaign slogans on campus that accompany elections for the undergraduate student government, but this year candidates have found a new way to advertise to UCLA voters. Read more...

Virginia Myers, a third-year American Indian student at UCLA, grew up in a home with no electricity or telephones and spent the first nine years of her education in a three-classroom schoolhouse on a reservation along the Klamath River in Northern California. Read more...