Children participated in a journaling workshop promoting mental health hosted at the Hammer Museum on Sunday.
At the event presented with 826LA, a nonprofit that aims to teach children ages six to 18 creative writing skills, students played a game to learn coping strategies, drew their dream gardens and wrote about their safe and happy places through guided prompts.

A policy brief published by the UCLA Center on Reproductive Health, Law and Policy found that unconditional cash transfer programs could benefit pregnant people and new parents.

This post was updated April 27 at 9 p.m.
Deadly secrets are revealed in “No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson.”
Gardiner Harris, a former pharmaceutical reporter for The New York Times and a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, effectively explains the legal battles involving the global health care company and the difficulties the media has in reporting on health-related scandals in his latest book, which was released April 8.

This post was updated April 25 at 12:43 a.m.
Jacob Lawson won a position on the North Westwood Neighborhood Council as an Undergraduate Student Board Member on April 4.

Shortly before the UCLA football team enters the field, the UCLA Bruin Marching Band welcomes the crowd.
Composed of more than 200 members, the Bruin Band performs at football games – both at home and away – with a smaller pep band at men’s and women’s basketball games and other Olympic sports games.

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.