After enduring an arduous trek up Janss Steps, students are usually rewarded with the sight of a flowing fountain, which gently splashes and spills down its step-like design. Read more...

Brooding on the horizon in 79 A.D., the temperamental Mount Vesuvius expunged its molten rock onto extravagant villas and slave quarters alike. In that year, a slice of ancient Roman society in all its pomp and circumstance became indelibly preserved and simultaneously hidden to human eyes. Read more...

Congress passed a sweeping budget bill Wednesday that reduces federal spending by $39 billion and includes a $11.9 billion cut to the federal student loan program, the largest cut in the history of federal financial aid programs. Read more...

Akron/Family may be known as a folk group, but its four members have exactly one thing in common with the average folk musician: beards. The quartet, which will perform tonight at the Cooperage in a concert sponsored by Campus Events, makes adventurous music full of multi-instrumental layering and unexpected sonic detours. Read more...

When the Scientific and Technical Academy Awards are held on Feb. 18, the UCLA community may see one of its own on the red carpet. Computer science Professor Demetri Terzopoulos and his former colleague John Platt of Microsoft won a Technical Achievement Academy Award for a 1987 paper titled “Elastically Deformable Models.” Scientific and Technical Academy Awards are given to “those accomplishments that contribute to the progress of the industry,” according to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Web site. Read more...

For six days last quarter, UCLA students carefully sliced away at the tendrils and vibrant petals of rich tropical foliage on the garden island of Kauai. Read more...

A lynching re-enactment, conversations with foreign ambassadors, lectures and film screenings are among the various programs planned at UCLA for Black History Month. The UCLA Ralph J. Read more...