Eugene Poole Conser was one of UCLA’s first students and attended the university when it was still located in downtown Los Angeles. Conser passed away Sunday in his Laguna Hills home of natural causes. Read more...

Once a political prisoner in the Soviet Union and now a member of the Israeli Parliament, Natan Sharansky came to UCLA on Tuesday to speak on human rights and democracy in the Middle East. Read more...

PIETERMARITZBURG, South Africa””mdash;Philile Ntuli sees the effects of HIV/AIDS every time she goes home. A third-year English and politics student at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Pietermaritzburg, Ntuli is a resident of Clermont, a township near the port city of Durban. Read more...

Capitalizing on the growing popularity of online social networking, UCLA Student Media has made an addition to bruinwalk.com to help students connect with fellow Bruins. In the new service, students create a profile containing a variety of information, including their interests, attitudes towards such topics as politics and religion, and personal attributes such as gender and physical build. Read more...

The statistics on AIDS and HIV grow more alarming every year. In the United States, as of 2002, 68 percent of estimated new AIDS diagnoses among women were due to heterosexual contact. Read more...

The first cases of the HIV virus were diagnosed and treated over 20 years ago at UCLA. Today, the university continues to take strides in fighting the epidemic by encouraging and administering testing for HIV on campus. Read more...

Twenty-plus years of research and investigation have led UCLA laboratories to the newest discovery in the fight against AIDS. In 1981, the first case of AIDS was documented by UCLA scientists after a series of similar rare illnesses had occurred at the UCLA Medical Center. Read more...