UCLA – News Stories About UCLA - Page 5

Feb 4, 2008 4:01 AM CST

Maria Shriver Backs Obama

Says if he were a state he'd be California

(Newser) - Another member of the Kennedy clan, California's First Lady Maria Shriver, made a shock endorsement of Barack Obama yesterday, three days after husband Arnold Schwarzenegger endorsed Republican John McCain. Shriver's announcement electrified Obama supporters at a UCLA rally where Oprah, singer Stevie Wonder and Shriver's cousin Caroline Kennedy appeared, reports...

UCLA Handles MSU

Nov 21, 2007 7:37 AM CST

UCLA Handles MSU

Duke beats Illinois, Memphis takes Arkansas, Florida routs North Florida

(Newser) - UCLA bounced back from an awful first half to beat Michigan State 68-63. The Bruins struggled early, falling behind 36-25 at halftime, but the highly touted big man Kevin Love led the Bruins back with 21 points and 11 rebounds.

Brains Hard-Wired to
Swing Left or Right

Sep 10, 2007 3:59 AM CDT

Brains Hard-Wired to Swing Left or Right

Liberals deal with ambiguity better; conservatives are single-minded

(Newser) - The brains of conservatives and liberals function in fundamentally different ways—with liberals more capable of accepting ambiguity and conflict, and conservative better able to pursue a single-minded course. That's the conclusion of a new study on the neurobiology of politics, published in the journal Nature Neuroscience.

25 Schools Out of the Ivies' League

Aug 15, 2007 1:19 PM CDT

25 Schools Out of the Ivies' League

Sure, you can just apply to Yale, Harvard and Princeton—but why be boring?

(Newser) - It's not all about GPAs and SATs—each of these schools excel in their own way. MSNBC picks the best colleges in 25 quirky categories:

Ivy Leaguer: Cornell University
Sports: University of Florida
Men's college: Morehouse College

NCAA Records Sought in
Payola Probe

Aug 3, 2007 5:23 AM CDT

NCAA Records Sought in Payola Probe

Student loan referrals may have netted sports program payoffs

(Newser) - New York's attorney general has demanded records of 40 NCAA athletic departments from Georgetown and UCLA to discover if students were illegally steered to a particular college loan provider for kickbacks. Several of the Division I schools have links on their websites to a company that officials suspect is offering...