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The Graduate Record Examination is undergoing its biggest overhaul in its 55-year history, affecting what the Educational Testing Service estimates to be 500,000 future graduate students. Read more...

In addition to a slight rise in profits and patronage, the recent introduction of Taco Bell to the Cooperage has brought increased congestion near the new eatery during the lunch hour and comes at a time of budding plans for a newly remodeled Ackerman. Read more...

A new government commission met for the first time Monday to discuss improving higher education and creating a more skilled workforce. The new panel, the Commission on the Future of Higher Education, has been formed to address the changing economic and labor needs of the country, but there has been some opposition to the new board due to the lack of academics who will be part of it. Read more...

Iraq’s election commission announced Monday that it would investigate possible voting irregularities in the country’s weekend referendum on a new constitution, throwing a new kink into the tumultuous democratization process. Read more...

While talks of hospital closings are generating protests around Los Angeles and the debate about universal health care and the quality of medical service continues, a physician organization at UCLA has been ranked as one of the top in the state. Read more...

A recent imaging study by UCLA and University of Pittsburgh researchers, which revealed the areas of the brain damaged by the AIDS virus, may be used to determine which drugs better target the AIDS virus in the brain. Read more...