A red vintage model of a tractor sits next to a foam orange fruit and an old-fashioned sign for tomatoes on the bookshelves in Michael Roberts’ office in the UCLA School of Law. Read more...
Photo: Michael Roberts is the new executive director of the Resnick Program for Food Law and Policy at the UCLA School of Law.
Hispanic students now have the second highest college enrollment rate, after Asian students, according to data released last week from the U.S. Census Bureau. Data from 2012 shows that about 48 percent of recent Hispanic high school graduates that were not enrolled as graduate or vocational school students were enrolled incollege at the undergraduate level, compared to about 46 percent of white students and about 43 percent of black students. Read more...
Members of the undergraduate student government plan on educating student groups about the funding available to them by launching a campaign that will be spearheaded by the Internal Vice President’s office.The purpose of the campaign is to promote the Undergraduate Students Association Council’s typically underused funding sources throughout the year, said Avi Oved, USAC internal vice president.Oved said his office plans to focus on alerting students to the Student Organizations Operational Fund, commonly known as SOOF. Read more...
The Undergraduate Students Association Council is the official student government of UCLA’s undergraduate students. Council meetings are Tuesdays at 7 p.m. in Kerckhoff 417 and are open to all students. Read more...
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.
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.
A Los Angeles Countyjudge recently ordered UCLA chemistry professor Patrick Harran to stand trial to face felony charges in connection with the death of a UCLA researcher in a 2008 laboratory fire. Read more...
