A quest to embrace the L.A. River as a natural asset
Two canoes and two kayaks glided along, paddles leaving ripples in the still water. Tall cottonwood trees and willows enveloped the riverbanks in cool shade and swallows soared among the…
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John Brooks Slaughter, trailblazing engineer who led Occidental College, dies at 89
John Brooks Slaughter, a pioneering engineer who served as the first Black director of the National Science Foundation and the first Black president of Occidental College, died Wednesday at Huntington…
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A space engineer who brought us images of Mars confronts Earth’s brutal realities in Gaza
From his modest home office in Santa Monica this week, Loay Elbasyouni prepared to review rocket engine designs during a meeting on Blue Moon, a spacecraft that in the not-too-distant…
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