There are few who dare to cross the rift between the North and South campuses of UCLA. Students who can recite the elements of the periodic table may seldom associate with those who know Hamlet’s “to be or not to be” soliloquy by heart. Read more...

Leaving home is a major step toward adulthood that many college students take. For some, the stresses of college can push them into an area beyond unhappiness, where nothing is possible and life becomes overwhelming. Read more...

Med and cancer centers named best in the West The UCLA Medical Center ranked as the best hospital in the Western United States for the 14th consecutive year and also moved up to be the third best hospital in the nation from the last year’s number five spot. Read more...

Electrical engineering Professor Mani Srivastava’s seven-year-old daughter Megha provided the initial inspiration for a research project that may provide groundbreaking results in the fields of education and computer science. Read more...

While Maria Teresa and Maria de Jesus Quiej-Alvarez were on the pediatric floor of the UCLA Medical Center last summer, a mirror was strategically placed in the bed they shared. Read more...

By Jeyling Chou BRUIN SCIENCE SENIOR STAFF [email protected] Midwives refused to touch Chang and Eng Bunker on the day they were born in 1811, horrified that the twin brothers were joined at the abdomen by a single band of flesh. Read more...

When penicillin was discovered in 1945, doctors hailed it as the miracle drug that would finally put humans ahead in the battle against bacterial infections like syphilis and cholera. Read more...