Saturday, May 24


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.





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...



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