William Froug, an Emmy award-winning writer-producer and a professor emeritus who reshaped the screenwriting program at UCLA, died Aug. 25 of natural causes. He was 91. Read more...
Photo: Emmy-winning writer-producer William Froug, 91, of Sarasota, Fla., died Sunday, Aug. 25, 2013 after a long, successful and, what he deemed, very lucky life.
Mark Kleiman’s summer engrossed in Washington’s marijuana policies earned him a new nickname – the Pot Czar. “He hates being called that,” Kleiman’s colleague Beau Kilmer said with a laugh. Read more...
Photo: Mark Kleiman, a public policy professor at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, helped oversee Washington’s transition into legalizing marijuana.
A Los Angeles Countyjudge recently ordered UCLA chemistry professor Patrick Harran to stand trial to face felony charges in connection with the death of a UCLA researcher in a 2008 laboratory fire. Read more...
Members of the undergraduate student government plan to launch a campaign to educate students about sexual assault and are asking for the support of UCLA administrators. Read more...
Proposed changes to the UCLA Student Code of Conduct would affect how the university defines and addresses sexual misconduct and inappropriate behavior on and off campus, as well as clarify some student rights. Read more...
UCLA was rated 10th out of 284 national universities ranked for their humanitarian efforts in Washington Monthly magazine’s annual rankings. The magazine bases its rankings on the social mobility each university offers, the service its students perform and the research accomplishments of its staff, according to Washington Monthly’s website. Read more...
The Undergraduate Students Association Council is the official student government of UCLA’s undergraduate students. Council meetings are Tuesdays at 7 p.m. in Kerckhoff 417 and are open to all students. Read more...
