Most students do not often think about high pressure systems. But over the past month, a persistent region with high air pressure over the southwestern United States has been responsible for sweaty walks to class and balmy nights in Westwood. Read more...

The results of the university-distributed professor evaluations could potentially be made available to students within the upcoming academic year. The numerical data from the end-of-quarter professor evaluations are at the center of a proposal currently in the works by Marwa Kaisey, president of the Undergraduate Students Association Council. Read more...

To see the full text of the resolution, click here to download the resolution in Microsoft Word document format. In a 6-4 vote Wednesday night, the undergraduate student government passed a controversial resolution that called for peace between Israel and Lebanon. Read more...

Soon after hearing the news that Israel had bombed the Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon, Combiz Abdolrahimi opened a forum for discussion in the best way he saw fit ““ on Facebook. Read more...

In the last month, UCLA researchers have published two studies that contribute to the search for both the prevention and treatment of AIDS. A group of researchers from the UCLA AIDS Institute and the Los Alamos National Laboratory published a study exploring why some mothers with HIV-1 transfer the virus to their babies through the uterus while others do not, leading them closer to finding a vaccine for HIV. Read more...

By Bridget Shackelford Bruin contributor [email protected] Guillermo Hernandez, a UCLA Spanish professor and director emeritus of the Chicano Studies Research Center, died in Mexico City on July 16. Read more...

Even at 10 a.m. on a Thursday, the line to order at Jamba Juice in Ackerman Union extended well beyond the smoothie store’s doors. Over the past school year, more brand-name stores, including Jamba Juice and Taco Bell, have opened on campus, while independent tenants such as Tropix and Coop’s Pizza have closed. Read more...