Like many third-year English students, June Dowad, a transfer student from Santa Monica College, just finished the introductory English series and is working on her honors thesis.
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IDEAS at UCLA wins UC President’s Award for Outstanding Student Leadership for advocacy efforts
It used to take Eder Gaona almost six hours every day to travel back and forth from his home in Santa Ana to UCLA, because he could not afford to move out of his parents’ house.
Recession lowers international funding to fight AIDS
Developing countries are struggling to combat AIDS as international funding is decreasing, according to a recent report by Doctors Without Borders.
Cal Grant legislation Assembly Bill 2447 receives initial approval from Assembly Committee on Higher Education
A bill set up to ensure student financial aid passed the first approval committee on April 20.
Scientists split on geological implications of volcano in Iceland
Following the eruption of an Icelandic volcano on April 15, an article in the magazine New Scientist proposes that Iceland may be entering a so-called active phase, where multiple eruptions could occur over the next 60 years.