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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.

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

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.

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...

A major pandemic could occur if bird flu were to become highly contagious among humans. UCLA scientists are making sure we get a leg up on the threat.

Villaraigosa visited the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs for a discussion about improving public education and shared his thoughts on leadership — from advice he would have given himself earlier in his career to what to expect from future leaders.

Engineers Without Borders, a student group at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has taken on the mission of providing a community in Guatemala with a reliable source of clean, potable water.

Kevin M. Dirksen (right) is an ethics fellow at the UCLA Health System Ethics Center. Neil S. Wenger is the center's director.     The 911 call last month that led to an emergency dispatcher begging workers at a Bakersfield senior...

The Fowler Museum will be hosting a free concert by UCLA's own Balkan Women's Choir, Superdevoiche, on Thursday, March 14 at 6 p.m.  Led by famed Bulgarian singer and choral conductor Tzvetanka Varimezova, Superdevoiche offers traditional...

Despite high hopes for clot-removal devices, doctors discovered that patients treated with them showed no improvement over those who received standard post-stroke care.

After four years of relative stagnation, the national economy is beginning to "ramp up," led by the housing and auto sectors, UCLA economists say in their first quarterly report of 2013.