In an attempt to remain competitive with other universities, graduate students from the north to the south side of campus are being charged higher fees to offset the drop in state funding to the University of California system over the past five years. Read more...

They brought their lab and their bags from Arizona when they moved to California in 2003, arriving in Merced with aspirations of helping build a University of California campus. Read more...

Last year’s drop in graduate enrollment at the University of California will either be reversed or repeated by students currently deciding where to attend graduate school. Read more...

UCLA’s Jacqueline Nguyen, who had hoped her provisional mark in the pole vault would qualify her for this week’s NCAA Indoor Championships, learned Monday evening that it was not good enough. Read more...

Former UCLA Willed Body Program employee Ernest Nelson announced Monday the release of a book detailing his experiences while working for the university. The book, titled “Willing Bodies: Inside the UCLA Willed Body Program,” would accuse the UCLA program of participating in the sale of body parts, a practice that the university has said it had no knowledge of at the time, according to Nelson’s Web site. Read more...

A labor dispute between the Coalition of Union Employees and the University of California could end as soon as today. The UC submitted a final offer to the union on March 3, though as of late Monday it had yet to accept or decline the offer. Read more...

Graduate students neglected in reporting It is surprising to me how frequently graduate student stories are ignored. Graduate students make up almost one-third of the students on this campus, and I don’t understand why the Daily Bruin seems to think we don’t exist. Read more...