This post was updated Oct. 21 at 9:42 p.m. Academics and alcohol: not just keys to the quintessential college experience, but also the sold-out specialty of Lectures on Tap. On Monday, Oct. 20, the ...

After he was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer in 2007, Carnegie Mellon University’s Professor Randy Pausch presented his last lecture to his students and fellow faculty on Sept. 18 of that ...

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Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, will deliver the Luskin Lecture for Thought Leadership at UCLA’s Royce Hall on April 1, as part of the celebration of UCLA’s Centennial year. The renowned animal behavior expert ...

Jordan Peele has now made two visits to Professor Tananarive Due’s UCLA class, “The Sunken Place: Racism, Survival and the Black Horror Aesthetic,” and a new 40-minute video posted by Due captured the ...

A recent UCLA study suggests that students who speed-watch video lectures can actually understand what they learn from them. These can be similar to listening to the same pre-recorded clip at a ...

This weekend on Good Food, Professor Amy Rowatdiscusses what her students learn in her Science and Cooking class at UCLA. Amy first launched the class when she was at Harvard. The corresponding ...

There are many things that make us wish we were back in college. Chief among them are courses like UCLA’s Science and Food. Luckily for LA-dwelling post-grads, the course helmed by physicist Amy Rowat ...

Matthew Kang is the Lead Editor of the Southern California/Southwest region, and has covered dining, restaurants, food culture, and nightlife in Los Angeles since 2008. Ole Mouritsen began by ...

When you think of the food scene in Los Angeles, you probably think of Koreatown or the San Gabriel Valley -- not UCLA. But for the last few years, that university’s Westwood campus has been the site ...