An order by the San Francisco Superior Court to block fee increases for some professional-school students last week is forcing the University of California to begrudgingly lower student fees in what could cost the university as much as $15 million in fee revenue. Read more...

As UCLA summer school students travel up Bruin Walk on a hot, summer afternoon, most immediately can tell that they are not among the same crowd that will be present during the rest of the year.  Instead, during the summer, the campus is home to thousands of people with something other than academics in mind. Read more...

From the beginning, it was clear that self-congratulation would be the hub of democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry’s campaign. Conceived in sick irony, his opening remarks at the Democratic National Convention echoed: “I’m John Kerry, and I’m reporting for duty.” For several decades, the only issue candidate Kerry did not flip-flop on was his claim that he was a Vietnam war hero, a Purple Heart recipient and, by extension, a true American. Read more...

UCLA library officials named veteran employee Teresa Barnett as the director of a long-established program that documents numerous interviews to record a local history. UCLA’s Oral History Program preserves records of the recent past by audio recording people who experienced events first-hand. Read more...

A specialist in gene analysis and praised for his friendliness and sense of humor, Zheng Luo, staff research associate in the UCLA Department of Neurology, died July 28 of a liver abscess. Read more...