Category: Washington
Seasoned litigator and "environmental warrior" Walter Benjamin Fisherow '68 has received a Service to America medal -- one of the most prestigious awards honoring America's civil servants -- for helping to cut air pollution nationwide.
Barack Obama's 2008 victory may have surprised the world, but not UCLA political scientist Lynn Vavreck.
In a new book that makes the astounding claim that there are only two sure routes to winning the U.S.
When the Los Angeles Unified School District announced in May it was canceling summer school for elementary and middle schools, many observers thought about children having nothing to do; few realized many of them would also be missing meals.
Philanthropic foundations are taking unprecedented steps to address the crisis in journalism and "serve as a firewall against the disappearance of critical news and information," according to a new report from the Center on Communication Leadership and Policy at the USC Annenberg School for Commu
The screening of a documentary about artist Tom Luckey will be the first of more than a dozen free and public events -- including exhibitions, lectures and symposia -- at the Yale School of Architecture (YSoA) this fall.
Fifty million years ago, the North and South Poles were ice-free and crocodiles roamed the Arctic. Since then, a long-term decrease in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has cooled the Earth.
When sixth-grader Jennifer Lopez started painting her self-portrait, she became frustrated, and Carly Correa, a senior art major at Loyola Marymount University, can tell you why. When most kids draw a picture of their face, they usually start with a single shade.
Health care reform has moved to the forefront of President Barack Obama's agenda, congressional committees are starting to consider legislation, and citizen and interest groups are gearing up for a massive Washington battle.
It was an iconic moment: On Wednesday, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin ScD '63, the first two human beings ever to have left their footprints on another world, stood on the lawn in front of Kresge auditorium in a rare side-by-side appearance.
