Beginning next year, UCLA students can have their community service and leadership accomplishments recorded and validated in a service transcript, for use when applying for jobs or to professional and graduate schools. Read more...

The first UCLA environmental health summit, held Thursday by the UCLA Institute of the Environment and the Women’s Foundation of California, focused on the disproportionate effects of pollution on women and children in a gender-based take on environmental issues. Read more...

Edward “Chip” Anderson, former director of the UCLA Academic Advancement Program and professor of educational leadership in the Graduate School of Education who worked at UCLA for 28 years, died July 5 after battling with lung cancer. Read more...

Calling for the end of animal experimentation, protesters marched from Westwood Village to the UCLA Neuroscience and Genetics Research Center on July 11. The 60 activists hoped to spread the message that animals are being mistreated in UCLA research facilities and that medical research conducted on animals does not benefit humans. Read more...

Chicanas and Chicanos are more likely than any other doctorate recipients to have initially attended a community college, according to a policy brief released by the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center last month. Read more...

Only three days remain until University of California nurses are scheduled to strike statewide, but no negotiations with the UC have taken place since the union passed a strike vote July 7. Read more...

Six University of California chancellors unanimously decided on Wednesday to end their campuses’ participation in the National Merit Scholarship Program, a move they believe will result in a fairer evaluation of all students for other merit-based scholarships and a more level playing field on which underrepresented and low-income students can compete. Read more...