Katherine Zartman waited excitedly in the lobby of the Gonda (Golschmied) Neuroscience and Genetic Reserach Center building early Friday morning. In a few minutes, she would meet a UCLA researcher working on several psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia ““ a disease that critically affected her son Peter nearly 15 years ago. Read more...

As Andrea Snyder prepares to graduate from UCLA in June, she is finding herself facing a depleted and unfriendly job market where employers are hesitant to hire inexperienced college graduates. Read more...

In response to a weak job market, the numbers of applications to UCLA’s graduate programs are significantly higher in 2003 than in years prior to the current recession. Read more...

Questions surrounding the accounting practices of Westwood’s fractured Business Improvement District have left both the non-profit organization and the Village in disarray. A portion of the organization’s audit, completed by CPA firm Cannon & Co., was withdrawn from the complete audit report released to board members and local merchants Tuesday, upsetting many merchants. Read more...

When he was in elementary school, Kenny Hong used to get up early in the mornings to watch cartoons on television like X-Men and Garfield. Now, as a fourth-year business economics student, he wakes up at 6 a.m. Read more...

Several UCLA students working for the greater good of eating have put something new on their plates ““ an informative Web site catering to the Westwood and Santa Monica areas. Read more...

Arab Strap “Monday at the Hug and Pint” Matador Records It must be dark in Aiden Moffet’s head. Arab Strap, the finest musical export from Glasgow’s very fine music scene (you heard me right, Belle and Sebastian), is back with more of its trademark super-sad Sadcore on its fifth full-length album. Read more...