In an effort to increase scholarships and awareness in South Asian studies, the Center for India and South Asia opened this summer as part of the UCLA International Institute. Read more...

Andrew Jones didn’t want to be part of the official UCLA Alumni Association. So the recent UCLA graduate started his own. Enter the Bruin Alumni Association. Read more...

It all started with a few fish swimming along in a little tank, likely oblivious to the intravenous tubes and catheters surrounding them, but nevertheless gaining the attention of one UCLA nurse. Read more...

To improve the quality of schools across the nation, the federal No Child Left Behind education law requires students in grades two through 11 to take standardized tests over 10 years in hopes that all pupils will be “proficient” by 2013. Read more...

Mantle Hood, founder of the UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology, died on July 31 from complications of Alzheimer’s disease. He was 87. In addition to founding the ethnomusicology program at UCLA, Hood also pioneered an idea he termed “bi-musicality,” meaning that ethnomusicologists should learn to play the music of the cultures they study. Read more...

A recent spurt of robberies occurring near UCLA’s campus have university police and detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department working together to find two suspects. Read more...

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced a sweeping series of nominations to city advisory panels last week, tapping a diverse group of the city’s most accomplished community leaders including a UCLA pediatrics professor and a high-ranking member of the university’s labor center. Read more...