Professors at the University of California received 439 new patents in 2003, making it the nation’s leading university in new patents for the 10th year in a row, according to a report released late last week by the U.S. Read more...

Rabbis, pastors and community members of all backgrounds gathered in a moving interfaith memorial yesterday in honor of the second anniversary of journalist Daniel Pearl’s death. Read more...

Several students entering lectures to take exams this midterm season may be experiencing déjà vu after foraging through a vast archive of past exam material. On the first floor of the Student Activities Center sit two large, gray file cabinets. Read more...

The UCLA Student Committee for the Arts is known for bringing big-name concerts to campus, from Love and Arthur Lee last year to George Clinton in spring 2002. Read more...

The city has cracked down on its casual enforcement of a law prohibiting vehicles from blocking the sidewalk because of a complaint that the North Village is inaccessible to wheelchairs. Read more...

Benedict Oladele, an international scholar from Nigeria, often has lunch with his friend Gary Moore, who drives a campus shuttle. While eating lunch and taking breaks from their busy schedules, the two share experiences from their different backgrounds. Read more...

As budgetary pressures and burgeoning enrollment close in on colleges and universities nationwide, many institutions are trying to accelerate students’ road to graduation. But The University of California is holding its course for now and resisting pressure from the state Legislature to discourage students from taking extra units and spending more time on a university campus. Read more...