Jayne Spencer, a professor in the history and Latin American studies departments, died of an unexpected illness Saturday. She was 54. Spencer’s career at UCLA started 15 years ago when she was a graduate student in the history department. Read more...

The atrocities of the Holocaust often disturb and repulse the sensibilities of most people. But if students had walked, or at least tried to walk, into Tuesday’s German 59: Holocaust in Film and Literature lecture, one would deduce the subject matter to be much more alluring. Read more...

Tyler Shores is a typical class-going, note-taking student at the University of California, Berkeley four days a week. But for 90 minutes each week, he steps on to the other side of the podium and becomes a lecturer, facilitator and highly regarded teacher in front of his peers. Read more...

A computer lab, study lounge, music practice room, fitness room and large screen television ““ for most residents living in the dorms, these features are a reality. Read more...

President George W. Bush opened his reelection bid Tuesday night along largely partisan lines as he defended the war in Iraq, pushed for further tax cuts, and nearly endorsed a constitutional ban on gay marriage. Read more...

For Jeffrey Cole, the idea to launch a multi-year international study of the Internet came to him one day in 1998. It occurred to him when he read that television viewing for kids under the age of 14 was down for the first time in history, mostly due to an increase in Internet use. Read more...

Children suffering from malnutrition. War-battered vestiges of formerly bustling cities. For Dr. Andrew Schechtman, a graduate of the UCLA School of Medicine, such images were part of his daily life as he worked in war-torn Liberia for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières. Read more...