Real-estate booms in "second-tier" cities and improved quality of life are just some of the perks that come with new rail connections, a UCLA economist says.

Jan Kempenaers took this shot of a monument near the village of Tjentište in Bosnia-Herzegovina  in 2007. Photographer Jan Kempenaers wanted to shoot ruins. What he found instead were spomeniks ― futuristic, socialist...

Nobel Laureate James Watson, who discovered the structure of DNA with Francis Crick in 1953, attracted an overflow crowd hoping to claim a seat at the IMED Seminar Monday at the CNSI Auditorium. With people arriving as early as...

  Atop the dormant Mauna Kea volcano, 13,796 feet above the island of Hawaii, the W. M. Keck Observatory has been quietly revolutionizing what is known about the universe.   Scientists using the powerful twin telescopes at the...

The new guidelines, co-developed by UCLA's Christopher Giza, are aimed at protecting the more than 1 million athletes who suffer concussions each year in the U.S.

A globe-trotting work of art is coming to the Hammer — and visitors are invited to contribute to its evolution.   Over the course of four marathon days — from Thursday, March 21, through Sunday, March 26, — the Domestic...

Alvaro Huerta, a UCLA visiting scholar at the Chicano Studies Research Center, is the author of a forthcoming book, "How the Other Half Gets Scapegoated: Immigrants and the Working Poor in the U.S."  This op-ed appeared originally in the...

The UCLA Department of Art is offering a variety of events for the public's enjoyment this spring, including exhibitions and public lectures.

Israeli journalist Natasha Mozgovaya speaks at "Israel in 3-D." If you didn’t already know what a complicated place Israel is, you certainly had a better idea after completing “Israel in 3-D,” the one-day university recently...

An exhibition at the Fowler Museum, "Resplendent Dress from Southeastern Europe," features 50 stunning 19th- to 20th-century ensembles from Macedonia, Croatia, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Kosovo, Serbia, Hungary, the Slovak Republic, the...

This op-ed by UCLA Chancellor Gene Block was published March 14 in the Washington Post.

In the much-watched 2014 rankings, multiple UCLA professional schools and graduate programs were rated among the best, reflecting the campus's broad academic excellence.

Chancellor Gene Block serves on the board of directors of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities and is a member of the executive committee of the Association of American Universities. This op-ed appeared March 14, 2013, in...

The UCLA Department of Design | Media Arts (DMA) is offering a variety of events for the public's enjoyment this spring, including exhibitions and lectures.

Tobias Higbie, associate professor of history, has been named the 2013-14 Lloyd Lewis Fellow in American History at the Newberry Library in Chicago, an independent research library dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of knowledge, ...

UCLA life scientist Amy Rowat's tasty springtime demonstrations seek to advance the public's understanding of science through food, and food through science.

Vijay Dhir, dean of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science and distinguished professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, received the 2013 John J. Guarrera Engineering Educator of the Year Award from the Engineers' ...

Professor or electrical engineering Jason Cong and co-authors Louis-Noel Pouchet, Peng Zhang and P. Sadayappan received the Best Paper Award at the 21st Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)/SIGDA International Symposium on Field Programmable Gate ...

Bahram Jalali, Northrop Grumman Endowed Opto-Electronic Chair in Electrical Engineering, was honored by the Engineering Council with a Distinguished Engineering Achievement Award presented in February. Jalali was recognized for "seminal contributions ...

The new approach to ventricular arrhythmias is part of a trend toward using the same cutting-edge medical techniques on different areas of the body, researchers say.

Electrical engineering professors Tatsuo Itoh and Ben Williams, with graduate student co-authors Philip Hon, Amir Tavallace and Qi-Sheng Chen, have been awarded the 2013 IEEE Transactions on THz Science and Technology Best Paper Award by the Institute ...

Distinguished professor of electrical engineering Asad Madni will be awarded an honorary Doctor of Science (Sc.D.) degree from, jointly, California State University (CSU) and Cal State Northridge (CSUN). CSU’s board of trustees selected him for the ...

UCLA’s Center for Global Education had its birth following two tragedies that occurred on the other side of the world. A bus crash enroute to the Taj Mahal killed four American students and the husband of an educator when the driver lost...

Man-made technologies could help slow climate change, but the authors argue that further research should be subject to scientific and legal oversight.

UCLA's 2012 State of the Commute report is out, and it shows UCLA drivers continue to switch to alternative transportation. About a quarter of UCLA commuters take public transit, and traffic, as measured by the number of vehicle trips to and from...