As part of “The Faces of Wrongful Conviction” conference to be held at UCLA this weekend, several exonerated individuals who have collectively spent more than 356 years combined in prison are scheduled to tell their stories Saturday in front of an audience of students, political leaders, legal experts and other advocates for abolishing capital punishment, The conference, hosted by the UCLA School of Law, plans to examine the causes and consequences of wrongful conviction and discuss the application of the death penalty in California. Read more...

Because of the increasing debt load associated with higher education, college graduates face difficulty pursuing low-paying public service careers, according to a new report released Thursday by the California Public Interest Research Group. Read more...

With plans to remodel the Cooperage in the works, the Associated Students UCLA is making arrangements to include beer and wine alongside other beverages currently served. Read more...

On the heels of a $12 billion cut to funding for federal student loan programs, Congress is again looking to education as one area to make up the federal deficit and channel money into other programs. Read more...

In an effort to enhance weapons security in the United States, the Energy Department announced plans Wednesday to relocate plutonium from seven national laboratories, including two run by the University of California, to one new site. Read more...

The push to divest from Sudan reached a new level Thursday when the board of one of California’s largest pension funds overwhelmingly approved the development of a plan to divest funds from companies associated with the government of Sudan. Read more...

It is not often that the strains of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic fill the Physics and Astronomy Building. But they did Thursday night, when physics Professor Peter Schlein led a seminar about his father, composer Irving Schlein, complete with videos of artists from the philharmonic recording his father’s pieces. Read more...