Monday, June 15



Influential UCLA professor and producer William Froug dies at 91

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.


Professor advises Washington state in regulation of marijuana

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.