Soon, commuters seeking to avoid the Westside’s car-clogged streets will have a mass transit system at their disposal. Just not where many say it is needed most. Read more...

Starting Monday, the nearly 37,000 faculty, staff and students still holding the classic blue or gold BruinCards began to swap them for new ones. The new BruinCards have a more secure encryption to safeguard information stored on the card and feature UCLA’s recently redesigned logo, although there is some question whether the changeover is worth the cost and the inconvenience. Read more...

She’s a self-described music lover. A fifth-year electrical engineering student, she has been a member of Random Voices, an all-female a cappella group, for three years. Read more...

When third-year microbiology student Nima Milani-Nejad entered the 2005 Building and Landscape Product Design Competition, he “had no idea (he) was going to win” anything. After all, Milani-Nejad was up against 80 entries offered by 25 different individuals, groups and companies ““ including those whose sole business was to design products created from waste tires, the main criterion for the contest. Read more...

After hurricane winds and rain threatened research facilities in New Orleans, university-based health research laboratories had dramatically different issues to deal with in the face of the destruction than governmental biological labs. Read more...

Harnessing the power of the largest celestial object in the universe is not just the stuff of science fiction ““ it may soon become an efficient way to power everything from cell phones to Las Vegas casinos. Read more...

A task force to review faculty diversity at the University of California began visiting campuses last week, the first step in UC President Robert Dynes’ plan to assess and improve minority representation in the university’s faculty. Read more...