After working with the issue of youth violence in Bosnia and Kosovo, Jorja Leap was inspired to come back to her hometown of Los Angeles and work on problems of youth violence in her own region. Read more...

Though Greenhouse, the new restaurant in Ackerman Union, is advertised as offering health food, there are currently no nutritional facts available to its patrons. Roy Champawat, Associated Students UCLA student union director, said ASUCLA does not have the software to “spit out nutritional information” for the new Greenhouse items. Read more...

When second-year public policy graduate students Sarah Simons and John Hellmann went to Pakistan over winter break, they found they were greeted by villagers who were just as eager to promote literacy as they were. Read more...

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa went to Washington, D.C., last week to introduce new proposals for lowering urban poverty through education. Villaraigosa chairs a task force of major city mayors and called last week for the federal government to invest in education to fight poverty. Read more...

Elias Bongmba recalls a conversation he had with a friend from Bamenda, Cameroon, five years ago. The friend had been convinced by others in his town that the HIV/AIDS-related deaths of many of his family members were the result of witchcraft. Read more...

By this time next year, a new 4.25-acre complex including 350 luxury apartments, 50,000 square feet for retail and the biggest parking structure in Westwood Village is scheduled to be in business. Read more...

Dr. Raffi Tachdjian sits on the floor of the Mattel Children’s Hospital at UCLA with 3-year-old Vincent “Vinny” Carramusa on Wednesday afternoon. But Tachdjian, a pediatric fellow in the division of allergy and immunology, is not there to assess Vinny’s health or use a stethoscope. Read more...