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...

Last time Chancellor-elect Gene Block was on the UCLA campus it was to accept the post of UCLA’s chief executive. Though today is his last day on campus for a while, over the past two days Block has met with students, faculty, staff and administrators to discuss the various issues impacting the campus community and to get better acquainted with the campus. 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...

Though Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech 44 years ago, students spoke Thursday about how his legacy resonates today. At the 19th annual Dr. Read more...