While many UCLA students were relaxing over spring break, hundreds of thousands of protesters hit the streets in cities across the country such as Los Angeles, Phoenix, Denver, Chicago and New York. Read more...

China is on track for long-term economic growth and the expansion of the Asian powerhouse will likely yield more opportunities than threats for the United States, according to economists and business leaders who spoke at the presentation of the UCLA Anderson Forecast on Wednesday. Read more...

Contentious debate and widespread protests erupted this past week as lawmakers in the House and Senate began debating an immigration reform bill that would tighten restrictions on immigrants trying to cross the border between the United States and Mexico. Read more...

A recent study released by a group of UCLA researchers found that California sends a lower percentage of high school students to four-year universities than all but one other state, and attributed this in large part to a lack of adequate preparation programs. Read more...

Wood splintered, screws flew and columns sheared off from their bases when a series of earthquakes shook the UCLA campus last week. Scale models of college dormitories were put to the seismic test in an earthquake simulator when seven teams from California universities competed in the seismic-design challenge Friday during the 2006 Pacific Southwest Regional Conference of the American Society of Civil Engineers, hosted by the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. Read more...

With the final meeting of the Westwood Farmers’ Market last Thursday, the market’s organizers have been left looking for alternative options for the future of the market. Read more...

As thousands across the nation took to the streets last Tuesday to protest legislation that would increase penalties against undocumented immigrants, Mario Escobar paced nervously in front of the Los Angeles Immigration Court on Olive Street. Read more...