Correction appended At the Associated Students UCLA Communications Board meeting Monday night, third-year communication studies student Jeff Schenck was appointed to the position of editor in chief of the Daily Bruin for the 2006-2007 school year. Read more...

A Nobel Prize-winning researcher from the team that discovered “buckyballs” will be speaking about nanotechnology at UCLA today as part of the bimonthly seminar series presented by the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA. Read more...

Renewed congressional attempts to ban online gambling may curtail a pastime that has been increasing among college students in recent years. Two bills have been introduced that would clarify online gambling’s illegality and attempt to end financial transactions that facilitate such gambling, cutting off a hobby that some UCLA students spend several hours a day engaging in. Read more...

Thirty years ago, a car bomb killed a former ambassador to the U.S. and his colleague as they drove to work at the Institute of Political Studies in Washington, D.C. Read more...

After receiving $14 million in loans from six private organizations last week, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine awarded $12.1 million in grants to institutions throughout the state Monday, with the largest grant going to UCLA. Read more...

Armed with a megaphone in his hand, political science graduate student Alfonso Gonzales’ voice and chants could be heard down Bruin Walk on Monday as he attempted to engage students in the debate on immigration that has stirred Congress and the nation in recent weeks. Read more...

In a one-hour Web chat this afternoon, students will have the opportunity to comment on plans for the university’s future. The Web chat is part of UC 2025, a project introduced by University of California President Robert Dynes in 2005, which seeks to analyze challenges facing the university and plan for the next 20 years. Read more...