It all started with a few fish swimming along in a little tank, likely oblivious to the intravenous tubes and catheters surrounding them, but nevertheless gaining the attention of one UCLA nurse. Read more...

To improve the quality of schools across the nation, the federal No Child Left Behind education law requires students in grades two through 11 to take standardized tests over 10 years in hopes that all pupils will be “proficient” by 2013. Read more...

Mantle Hood, founder of the UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology, died on July 31 from complications of Alzheimer’s disease. He was 87. In addition to founding the ethnomusicology program at UCLA, Hood also pioneered an idea he termed “bi-musicality,” meaning that ethnomusicologists should learn to play the music of the cultures they study. Read more...

A recent spurt of robberies occurring near UCLA’s campus have university police and detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department working together to find two suspects. Read more...

The year 2025 is coming, and it’s going to bring ever-escalating congestion, funding problems for infrastructure, and a lack of college-educated workers to sufficiently man the expanding service sector of the economy, according to the Public Policy Institute of California. Read more...

E-mails purporting to be from the University Credit Union filled UCLA inboxes this month, offering UCU customers the chance to sign up for protection from fraud and identity theft. Read more...