UCLA will soon become the first institution to host Occupational Safety and Health Administration training courses for business professionals in the Los Angeles area. UCLA’s Southern California Education and Research Center announced its partnership with the OSHA Training Institute at UC San Diego earlier this week, as well as its plans to begin holding courses in February. Read more...

A proposal by a team of UCLA researchers to study the social effects of Ecstasy on vervet monkeys was a key battling point in a protest held Thursday throughout the UCLA Medical Center area by a small group of animal rights activists. Read more...

Every day, hundreds of students walk up and down Gayley Avenue. To the average student, many of the houses they pass are merely buildings. But for the fraternity brothers who occupy them, they are home. Read more...

With concern about the worldwide threat of bird flu growing, the federal government has made plans to increase the nation’s supply of the antiviral pill Tamiflu in case the disease enters the U.S., but local health officials say the flu presents no immediate danger to Los Angeles. Read more...

He will never get back the time away from his family, his friends and his life as a third-generation Chinese American who had converted to Islam. Read more...

After two years of work and with the aid of a $4 million endowment from the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, one student’s vision to facilitate collaboration between educational and tribal leaders became a reality with Wednesday night’s official opening ceremony for the Tribal Learning Community and Educational Exchange program. Read more...

With campaigns for and against propositions slated for the Nov. 8 special election in full force, UCLA hosted a community forum Wednesday that was aimed at voicing opposition to three controversial propositions on the ballot. Read more...