One of six new appointments to the new California stem cell oversight commission is UCLA’s very own School of Medicine Dean Gerald Levey. Eventually, the 29-member commission will supervise billions of dollars marked for important research, much of which could be conducted on UC campuses. Read more...

Coming back from a near certain death, the Kyoto Protocol ““ an international agreement aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions ““ was officially ratified by Russia last week, paving the way for the treaty to take effect in February. Read more...

As the clock strikes 5 p.m. and three minutes of music begin to play, the sun is setting, the sky is orange and many students are ending their day on campus. Read more...

A new California law requiring all cell phone retailers to provide a way to collect and recycle used cell phones was recently signed into law by Gov. Read more...

College is supposed to be about learning, hard work and a social life. But if you are a gamer, you probably set aside some time this week to check out two new mega-blockbuster video games ““ “Halo 2″ and “Half-Life 2.” But as long as you didn’t sleep through your mid-terms or forget to call your friends back, that’s OK. Read more...

Sitting in the living room of his Hollywood Hills home Wednesday morning, English Professor Lawrence Grobel gushes about a course he teaches on interviewing. He pulls four books on the subject from a nearby shelf and piles them onto a table. Read more...

The coffeehouses of eighteenth and nineteenth century Europe were places where the embers of revolution were stoked. The coffeehouses of twenty-first century Westwood are places where a bit of flirting, some gossiping and maybe a little studying are done. Read more...