With dozens of cultural, artistic and sports events every week at UCLA, the university has added a new branch of its Happenings campaign which employs student anchors presenting events through a broadcast medium. Read more...

UCLA’s International Institute has been awarded $1 million to fund research and programs on a range of contemporary Israeli issues. The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation gave a chaired endowment ““ a research budget given to a professor ““ to the institute’s Israel Studies Program last November. Read more...

When residents move into Club California’s newly renovated condos this year, they will find neighbors who represent a unique mix in the Village. Undergraduate and graduate students, doctors and other professionals will be living under one roof when the housing complex opens this summer, said Erika Aspericueta, a UCLA alumna and the transaction coordinator for Century 21 Award, which is handling sales. Read more...

Current UCLA students may never see a reduction in the traffic that plagues the 405 Freeway from the 101 Freeway interchange to the 10 Freeway. But the next generation of Bruins might. Read more...

Not much could surprise a career diplomat who served as a U.S. special envoy to Kosovo, Bosnia, Haiti and Somalia. But when that diplomat is unexpectedly questioned by the former Spanish ambassador to the United Nations who referred to his associate Kofi, it makes for a promising and exciting experience. Read more...

Journalism studies has returned to UCLA “”mdash; at least for the summer. For the first time since the undergraduate journalism program stopped being offered at UCLA, students will have the opportunity to study journalism for credit. Read more...

Travis DeLong doesn’t own an iPod. He said it has become more of a status symbol than a functional item. The UCLARadio.com DJ and general manager prefers his nearly vintage Philips CD player, which he can’t even remember when he bought, over the several-hundred-dollar iPod. Read more...