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Previous research showed that ice shelves are vulnerable to even small increases in greenhouse gases, but the new study was the first to demonstrate that huge, land-based glaciers are also vulnerable.

The new UNESCO chair was officially announced at a celebration marking the 70th anniversary of UNESCO and featured Director-General Irina Bokova.

Robinson shared the story of her awakening to the global impact of climate change on the world's impoverished countries and communities at a lecture hosted by the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs Tuesday.

Among the topics discussed at the inaugural UCLA-Tata Global Forum in New Delhi were sustainable megacities, the integration of solar power into smart energy grids and sustainable biological fuels.

Through a systematic review of Alzheimer’s studies, Ron Brookmeyer’s team at UCLA has found that the rate of being diagnosed with the disease doubles every five years in older populations.

Michelle Caswell, an assistant professor of archival studies at UCLA, has helped launch an online archive that compiles first-person narratives.

A panel of UCLA experts examine the causes and consequences of the terrorist attacks in Paris and how to deal with ISIS.

All eyes are on Paris as the 2015 UN Climate Conference begins. California is well-represented, with many from the state participating, including five UCLA faculty and seven students.

UCLA Luskin School professor Michael Storper writes about spending almost all night indoors with friends as the attacks occurred nearby and of how grief ensconced his neighborhood in the days after.

Laure Murat, an award-winning author, came to UCLA as a professor of French and Francophone studies after taking a nontraditional route to a Ph.D.

When UCLA history professor J. Arch Getty presents “Dead Man Talking: Lenin's Body and Russian Politics,” the UCLA Academic Senate’s 119th Faculty Research Lecture on Oct. 19, he will be speaking from a deep well of scholarship in Russian history.

A new global health minor explores the institutional, economic, logistic, legal and social challenges of global health, using a multidisciplinary lens to consider health in a global context.

Scholars will cut across traditional boundaries to study migration in a world increasingly defined by the global movement of people.

Two UCLA Anderson professors write in an op-ed that despite rhetoric on Capital Hill, the Trans-Pacific Partnership will not curb China’s influence in the global marketplace.

UCLA’S Center for European and Russian Studies presents a discussion Friday, Sept. 25, about the migration crisis with experts in history and law.

The much-debated nuclear agreement with Iran is now a fact and should be given a chance to work, a panel of experts from UCLA and the RAND Corporation said during a discussion that drew a packed crowd to a lecture hall in Bunche Hall recently.

Thanks to UCLA student Grant Guess, schoolchildren with developmental and intellectual disabilities in West Africa are reaping the benefits of working on sustainable farm projects that he has developed for them.

UCLA Anderson professor Jerry Nickelsburg writes that market forces have elevated food safety to an overriding concern in agricultural trade between China and the United States.

Lovraj and Dolly Talwar of the United Arab Emirates became fans of UCLA when their son became a Bruin. Their enthusiasm is one reason why more UAE undergrads than ever are coming this fall.

The UCLA Center for World Health and the LA5 Rotary Club brought together a panel of experts to talk about the failing health of the Earth and what mega-cities can do about it before an audience of 200 business peoplein downtown Los Angeles.

History professor Brenda Stevenson writes that 150 years after emancipation in the United States, there are still 20 to 30 million people enslaved around the world.

Carlos Alberto Torres, UCLA education professor, has been appointed by UNESCO as the inaugural chair on Global Learning and Global Citizenship Education.

Ten UCLA students will be headed for talks with staff at the State Department, White House and United Nations and other Middle East experts before heading for ground zero of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

UCLA Anderson finance professor Bhagwan Chowdhry writes that allowing developing nations to raise money similarly to how startups raise equity funding could help stave off future crises like happened in Greece.

This summer, 14 UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs graduate students are working on projects around the world for government and non-governmental organizations.