Updated 5:20 p.m. The University of California’s former second-ranked official violated UC conflict of interest policies in hiring a business partner for a newly created management position, according to results of a UC investigation released Wednesday. Read more...

The University of California, along with its three corporate partners, has been awarded the new management contract for the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Department of Energy announced Wednesday. Read more...

Chancellor Albert Carnesale, who underwent open heart surgery Tuesday at the UCLA Medical Center, left the intensive care unit Wednesday morning and is expected to make a “rapid recovery,” according to a statement by the chief of cardiac surgery. Read more...

Chancellor Albert Carnesale is scheduled to undergo open heart surgery Tuesday to correct a heart valve condition, a procedure characterized by a veteran cardiologist as relatively low-risk for a healthy person. Read more...

Kieran Kayalackakom never drinks coffee because he hates the taste. But for his first midterms, the first-year neuroscience student stayed up for 72 hours on seven vanilla lattes with a double shot of espresso from Bruin Café. Read more...

David Saxon, who came to UCLA in 1947 to teach nuclear physics, and in more than five decades that followed became an iconic figure in the University of California system, died Thursday at the UCLA Medical Center after a long illness. Read more...