Tuesday, August 18

In the news:

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.





UCLA ranked 10th in nation for humanitarian efforts

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...