Scientists at UCLA’s Neuropsychiatric Institute have made the unexpected discovery that lean people may have higher levels of a hunger-stimulating hormone than obese people do. According to their research, which was published online last month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, people with normal body weight experience had an unexpectedly intense burst of ghrelin ““ a hormone that makes people feel hungry ““ in the middle of the night, while obese people do not. Read more...

Correction appended The undergraduate student government extended its deadline for funding applications in an effort to grant independent groups adequate time to be notified and complete their requests for finances. Read more...

Edward Hoffman, a UCLA professor in the David Geffen School of Medicine and co-inventor of the positron-emission tomography scanner, died on July 1. He was 62. Read more...

FedEx Kinko’s opens in Ackerman An empty store was filled in Ackerman Union as FedEx Kinko’s opened in place of Pulse Copy Center, which left at the end of spring quarter. Read more...

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For most students, UCLA is a safe place. Compared to other parts of the city, Westwood has few violent crimes. But sexual assault is always a concern on college campuses. Read more...

The man behind most of UCLA’s fiscal decisions, Vice Chancellor Steve Olsen, will soon be working with politicians, policy experts and the general public in an attempt to make the state’s financial structure more transparent and effective. Read more...