In a surprising move, the U.S. House of Representatives rejected a major higher education spending bill last week that would have frozen federal student aid at 2005 levels. Read more...

Several libraries around the country are trying to spice up ““ and speed up ““ the way people interact with them online. But there’s a catch, and it’s called the Patriot Act. Read more...

The crowd cheered as student models strutted their stuff and student groups performed Thursday night as part of the UCLA Panhellenic Council’s philanthropy event, Infusion. The inaugural event, which took place in Ackerman Grand Ballroom, was organized to raise money for the Rape Treatment Center of Santa Monica. Read more...

Findings show that, for the eighth consecutive year, the number of black student admissions at UCLA and UC Berkeley has continued to decrease. Such statistics and findings will be discussed during a symposium today, titled “(E)Racing Race, Erasing Access: Politics, Policies and Practices in a Post-Prop 209 World.” Hosted by the College Access Project for African Americans, the event’s purpose is to share recent research CAPAA has done in the past year on the possible reasons for the declining number of black admissions to the two most competitive UC campuses, UCLA and Berkeley. Read more...

The long process to determine who will manage the Los Alamos National Laboratory will conclude in the coming weeks. The University of California has bid for continued management of the New Mexico lab in consortium with Bechtel National, BWXT and Washington Group International. Read more...

BERKELEY “”mdash; About 500 students marched outside the UC Board of Regents meeting at the UC Berkeley campus Thursday, holding cardboard signs decrying the fee increases approved Wednesday. Read more...