A plan to revitalize UCLA's struggling newsmagazines by increasing funding, creating a training program and hiring paid advisers was passed by a Communications Board subcommittee on Wednesday. Read more...

As part of a collaboration between a number of universities over many years, Professor of Germanic languages Todd Presner's project HyperCities, a Web-based platform that shows Berlin as it evolves over centuries, has won a grant totaling $238,000 from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Read more...

Students gathered Wednesday to attend a film screening and silent art auction, to learn about issues concerning lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender homeless youth and to raise funds for the UCLA LGBT Campus Resource Center. Read more...

The shooting last Thursday at Northern Illinois University has sparked debate over the various causes of mass violence in today's culture: causes that can include mental health and media coverage, said Douglas Kellner, professor of education. Read more...

While the Writers Guild of America strike may have been lifted last Wednesday, many questions still remain up in the air for both TV and film fans, as well as those within the entertainment industry. Read more...

For many decline-to-state voters in Los Angeles County in the Feb. 5 primary, making their voices heard was not as easy as they had hoped. Read more...

In the middle of a 300-person lecture hall, a student feels his eyes get heavy as his vision blurs, and while the professor continues to mumble unintelligibly from the front of the room, the student's head hits his chest and his pen falls to the floor. Read more...