While most students were reveling in the lazy days following fall quarter finals, a minor battle took place on the first floor of Ackerman Union. Insects were discovered in the kitchen of the Sbarro eatery on campus, causing the restaurant to close down for two days in December. Read more...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger promised ambitious reforms to strengthen California in his State of the State address Tuesday evening, calling for universal health care and alternative fuel sources in light of global warming concerns. Read more...

Outside the door of his office in the Molecular Sciences building, J. Fraser Stoddart’s name plaque is now accompanied by a pink post-it in front of the name. Read more...

By SEDA TERZYAN Bruin contributor [email protected] Tatevik Vardanyan took a seat in a small dark room, alone with only a computer to keep her company. Not knowing what to expect, she nervously awaited the start of the experiment. Read more...

Roland Palvolgyi heard a helicopter drone overhead, and the intercom in the Emergency Department buzzed “ETA, five minutes.” Along with doctors and nurses, Palvolgyi watched as the TV broadcast images of a helicopter landing on the helipad above the UCLA hospital, and the Emergency Medical Technicians unloaded a man onto a stretcher. Read more...

After three years of juggling a full class load and a part-time research job, Tom Clarke’s hard work will pay off when he heads to Oxford University on the prestigious Marshall Scholarship next fall. Read more...

In the first months of the 110th Congress, the new Democratic majority has education high on its agenda. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, along with other members of Congress, released a schedule for the first 100 hours of Congress, which includes a goal of cutting student loan interest rates in half, according to Pelosi’s official Web site. Read more...