The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation will partner with eight elite universities in an effort to increase the number of low-income community college students who transfer to top-ranked schools, the foundation announced Monday. Read more...

As finals approach, many students are trying to find the most effective ways to study, evaluating what worked and did not work in the past. Appropriately enough, researchers at UC Irvine and University College London are examining which environmental factors best prepare the mind to learn new information as part of a new study on memory. Read more...

Today, UCLA’s Campus Events Commission will present actor Morgan Freeman with an award to honor his lifetime achievement in drama. This year’s Spencer Tracy Award is the first award to be given since 2000, when Jack Lemmon was recognized. Read more...

In a unanimous decision Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that universities must allow military recruiters on campus even if schools oppose the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, which prohibits openly gay people from serving. Read more...

When Laura Willeford went to Powell Library to research a paper last week, she left feeling frustrated. Willeford, a first-year undeclared student, said she had trouble finding useful sources for her art history paper. Read more...

Less than a year ago, they were up on stage singing their hearts out. On Saturday, these former members of Random Voices, an on-campus all-female a capella group, were part of the audience, loudly cheering on the performing groups that sang during the fifth annual California A Capella Festival. Read more...

A monk who blinded himself in order to resist temptation. Women demand the right to divorce the husbands who abandoned them. The emergence of a 17th-century school of miniaturist painters. Read more...