A new UCLA magazine that launched Wednesday features work from other universities to make transportation research more accessible to students, policymakers and the public. The UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies released its first issue of Transfers Magazine, which features research from the Pacific Southwest Region University Transportation Center, said Madeline Brozen, associate director of ITS and Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies at UCLA and editor in chief of Transfers Magazine. Read more...

Photo: (Daily Bruin file photo) The UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies released its first issue of Transfers Magazine last Wednesday to feature work from a group of eight universities.

UCLA professor and 2002 California gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon often dresses up as famous economic figures like J.P. Morgan for his classes. “A couple years after I ran for governor, a friend of mine asked me, what are you going to do now?” Simon said. Read more...

Photo: Bill Simon, a professor in the department of economics who unsuccessfully ran for California governor in 2002, received the My Last Lecture Award at a ceremony in De Neve Auditorium. (Ken Shin/Daily Bruin staff)