Kent State students did it in May of 1970 when President Richard Nixon authorized the push into Cambodia. UC Berkeley students did it throughout the 1960s for a variety of reasons. Read more...

When two white women were denied admission to the University of Michigan in the mid-1990s, the questions surrounding the use of affirmative action in college admissions was brought to the Supreme Court and came into the national spotlight. Read more...

Starting Monday, the nearly 37,000 faculty, staff and students still holding the classic blue or gold BruinCards began to swap them for new ones. The new BruinCards have a more secure encryption to safeguard information stored on the card and feature UCLA’s recently redesigned logo, although there is some question whether the changeover is worth the cost and the inconvenience. Read more...

She’s a self-described music lover. A fifth-year electrical engineering student, she has been a member of Random Voices, an all-female a cappella group, for three years. Read more...

When third-year microbiology student Nima Milani-Nejad entered the 2005 Building and Landscape Product Design Competition, he “had no idea (he) was going to win” anything. After all, Milani-Nejad was up against 80 entries offered by 25 different individuals, groups and companies ““ including those whose sole business was to design products created from waste tires, the main criterion for the contest. Read more...

After hurricane winds and rain threatened research facilities in New Orleans, university-based health research laboratories had dramatically different issues to deal with in the face of the destruction than governmental biological labs. Read more...

Harnessing the power of the largest celestial object in the universe is not just the stuff of science fiction ““ it may soon become an efficient way to power everything from cell phones to Las Vegas casinos. Read more...