This post was updated April 13 at 7:32 p.m.
Rosanna Warren translated everyday situations through her poetry for an audience at the Hammer Museum on Thursday.

By design, springtime is full of a bounty of new art.
Every petal is a brushstroke on the landscape, each new bud of vegetation a fleck of bright paint on the canvas.

As spring awakens with its blooming flowers and gentle warmth, a fresh energy rustles through the pages of new literary releases.
Book lovers will find inspiration in the season’s offerings, from stories of self-discovery to tales that mirror the world’s own renewal.

A new UCLA club is teaching Los Angeles’ elementary school children to love science.
SPROUT at UCLA, which formed in January, aims to bring one free STEM field day to schools in the LA Unified School District for kindergarten to fifth-grade students.

This post was updated March 2 at 8:32 p.m.
Psychoanalytic thinker and author Adam Phillips presented ideas about kindness, mental health and psychoanalysis Thursday.
Phillips, a former child psychotherapist, spoke with UCLA professors David Russell and Mona Simpson about his untraditional opinions on psychoanalysis at the Landmark Westwood theater.

This post was updated Feb. 23 at 7:58 p.m.
Alyssa Murray is applying her studies in English and psychology to write and self-publish a book.
Murray, a third-year English and psychology student, began writing her debut novel as a freshman at UCLA and later published it in January.

Experts said higher education changes proposed by the Trump administration could undermine the strength of the American university system.
President Donald Trump has promised to end diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in schools and threatened to eliminate the Department of Education itself.

UCPD arrested a person for drug possession Saturday morning.
Police arrested the suspect during a bicycle stop at La Grange Avenue and Pontius Avenue in Sawtelle at 3 a.m.

Love is in the air across Los Angeles.
As Valentine’s Day causes couples to reflect on their relationships and sparks new romances, love songs of every genre continue to soundtrack important emotional moments and memories.

Armen Davoudian combined Persian and Armenian culture with English to reflect on life abroad and in the United States during a poetry reading Wednesday.
Davoudian, a doctoral student studying English at Stanford, read poems about his mother, father, grandfather and others in his life at the Hammer Museum.