Sunday, June 28



Missing student found safe in Merced

After more than a day of searching, police found former UCLA student Nancy Salas alive and well in central California on Thursday at around 2:30 p.m. She has been brought back to her hometown by Glendale police for questioning. Read more...



Report urges graduate funding

Laura Loeb always wanted to be a professor. A second-year doctoral student in sociology, Loeb is paying for her six-year degree program mostly through university-allocated stipends and teaching assistant work. Read more...



Student disability projects honored

Shareen Nizami was motivated to engage in disabilities studies after watching her younger brother struggle for years against unfair treatment by school administrators, who placed him in English as a second language classes and punished him for daydreaming, thinking he had ADD "“ Attention Deficit Disorder. Read more...

Photo: English student Michelle Tang (left) and political science student Shareen Nizami (right) won the Jessie Alpaugh Senior Prize in Disability Studies.