Edward “Chip” Anderson, former director of the UCLA Academic Advancement Program and professor of educational leadership in the Graduate School of Education who worked at UCLA for 28 years, died July 5 after battling with lung cancer. Read more...

Calling for the end of animal experimentation, protesters marched from Westwood Village to the UCLA Neuroscience and Genetics Research Center on July 11. The 60 activists hoped to spread the message that animals are being mistreated in UCLA research facilities and that medical research conducted on animals does not benefit humans. Read more...

Chicanas and Chicanos are more likely than any other doctorate recipients to have initially attended a community college, according to a policy brief released by the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center last month. Read more...

Only three days remain until University of California nurses are scheduled to strike statewide, but no negotiations with the UC have taken place since the union passed a strike vote July 7. Read more...

Six University of California chancellors unanimously decided on Wednesday to end their campuses’ participation in the National Merit Scholarship Program, a move they believe will result in a fairer evaluation of all students for other merit-based scholarships and a more level playing field on which underrepresented and low-income students can compete. Read more...

The University of California Board of Regents will vote this week on a package of fee increases for UC professional school students that would result in fees rising thousands of dollars. Read more...

For the past couple of weeks, news stations, newspapers and magazines have all been reporting the recent announcement that Sandra Day O’Connor has retired as a Supreme Court justice. Read more...