Ellen Tauscher

The UC Board of Regents makes decisions that impact every UC student’s life — determining student tuition, approving campus developments, setting the UC system’s budget and more — yet most students across the system do not know who the regents are.

UC Regent Ellen Tauscher died at Stanford University Medical Center on Monday after experiencing complications from pneumonia.

The UC will take a leading role in the management partnership among the three institutions, which will operate as Triad National Security, Triad, according to UC President Janet Napolitano.

The UC regents met Thursday to address committee reports and recommendations, including a resolution of appreciation for outgoing UC Regent Norman Pattiz, who announced that he will retire in February after several calls for his resignation arose over lewd comments.

The UC Board of Regents reviewed the status of university’s bid for management of the Los Alamos National Laboratory at its regular board meeting Wednesday.

UC Regent Norman Pattiz — who was recorded asking an actress at his podcast studio whether he could hold her breasts — will retire in February after several calls for his resignation over the lewd comments.

Gov. Jerry Brown announced the appointment of four new members to the University of California Board of Regents in a press release issued Friday afternoon.