When Andrew Bokarius began working at a neuroscience laboratory this summer, the thought of retirement was distant. Bokarius took the job to get research experience and explore what it would be like to work in a research lab. Read more...

In a bipartisan and unanimous decision, the Joint Legislative Audit Committee voted Tuesday to conduct a “comprehensive review” of the University of California’s compensation practices. In a review that will likely be completed within a couple of months, the Audit Committee will look at salary schedules for UC employees, the way certain pay raises are decided upon and how different compensation packages are put together, said Richard Stapler, spokesman for Assembly Speaker and Ex-Oficio Regent Fabian Núñez who requested the audit. Read more...

The UC Board of Regents is expected to discuss salary issues, divestment from Sudan and management of its national laboratories during its bimonthly meetings today and Thursday. Read more...

The debate over the effectiveness and morality of capital punishment in California has been revisited in recent weeks. The media attention given to the December execution of Stanley “Tookie” Williams and Tuesday’s execution of Clarence Ray Allen, the 12th and 13th people to be executed by the state since it reinstated the death penalty in 1977, has brought this debate back to the forefront of the public’s mind. Read more...

When thousands of refugees came to America after the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, they vowed not to forget the 4,000 years of culture they brought with them. Read more...