Board approves AIDSagency contract The Board of Supervisors approved a nearly $200,000 noncompetitive contract with a nonprofit AIDS agency amid controversy over how the county is doling out its AIDS funds. Read more...

California needs more teachers, and Gov. Schwarzenegger has a plan. But he must make sure the plan is adequately funded, or his proposed “California Teach” program won’t amount to much. Read more...

Jeanne Williams Newsom, former assistant dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine, died May 27 after battling cancer for several years. She was 83. Newsom’s stepson, Ted Newsom, said she suffered a “fairly damaging stroke” seven or eight years ago and has been on and off chemotherapy for the past three to four years. Read more...

Graduate student government officials say Congress needs to take action to make student visas more accessible if UCLA wants to continue to attract the best and brightest students not only from California, but from around the world. Read more...

Involvement with UCLA normally ends with graduation, but for young, enigmatic and upbeat personality Todd Sargent, his graduation in 1996 only marked the beginning of his active role in UCLA in a different way. Read more...

The revelation of one of the most famous anonymous sources on Tuesday has raised renewed questions as to the role of confidentiality in journalism as well as how history will remember W. Read more...

UCLA will be offering its university perspective to Los Angeles Mayor-elect Antonio Villaraigosa’s transition to office. Chancellor Albert Carnesale, UCLA Downtown Labor Center Director Larry Frank and UCLA Institute of the Environment Director Mary Nichols were asked to advise Villaraigosa on recruiting and appointing members of the mayor’s staff. Read more...