Center for Diverse Leadership in Science

PR Newswire reported that American Elements, a manufacturer and supplier of engineered and advanced material products with distribution and manufacturing in Europe, Asia, South America and China, has provided funding for the UCLA IoES Center for Diverse Leadership in Science in support of the growing global focus on green technologies.

Professor Aradhna Tripati was named a Geological Society of America (GSA) fellow at the organization’s spring meeting in April. Founded in 1888, GSA serves geoscientists in academia, government and industry. Fellowships are granted “in recognition of their distinguished contributions to the geosciences” including publications, research, teaching and “contributing to public awareness of geology.” Tripati will be...

IoES Center for Diverse Leadership in Science director, Aradhna Tripati spoke at the Environmentalists of Color Collective at UCLA’s Climate Justice Forum on May 8, 2018. The Daily Bruin highlighted Professor Tripati’s belief that student activism and scientists of color are important in contributing to the environmental science field and that universities should promote diversity in these programs.

The Hollywood Reporter featured a story about the March 22nd IoES Sea CO2 Change Gala held at the Pritzker residence. The piece included quotes from board members and honorees (Van Jones, Keely Shaye Brosnan, and Pierce Brosnan) that highlighted environmental activism and diversity. 

Professor Aradhna Tripati shared her experience with systemic racism and how she addresses lack of diversity in environmental science through the Center for Diverse Leadership in Science and postdoctoral scholar Jesse Bloom Bateman expressed his thoughts on diversity in research as a person of color in geology to Grist.

The Daily Bruin covered the IoES’s Center for Diverse Science in Leadership’s inaugural event where scientists from diverse backgrounds spoke about their research and experiences in academia. 

“I try to connect the research and education that I do on the environment, climate change and earth science to social justice and to the quest to create a much more inclusive and equitable world.” IoES Faculty Member/ Center for Diverse Leadership in Science Director Aradhna Tripati is featured in The Broad’s #InfiniteLA video series.

The Geological Society of America awarded UCLA’s Aradhna Tripati the 2017 Bromery Award for Minorities, which is given to a minority who has “made significant contributions to research in the geological sciences, or those who have been instrumental in opening the geoscience field to other minorities.” Tripati was nominated by UCLA professor emeritus Raymond V. Ingersoll,...

UCLA IoES professor Aradhana Tripati interviewed on BBC News about melting glaciers.

An iceberg the size of Delaware breaks off the Antarctic peninsula. CNN's Kyung Lah reports. (With Aradhna Tripati.)

“Literally every decade we have more record-breaking years with respect to temperatures,” said Aradhna E. Tripati, a climate scientist at UCLA. “We’re already paying a cost and it’s going to keep going up.” Seniors are especially vulnerable during heat waves because they have a harder time than younger adults adjusting to sudden changes in temperature.

If a second federal grant is awarded by end of summer, the group will have received the full $2 million to complete a four-year project that studies how heat events, in part caused by global climate change, affects the most vulnerable local communities identified in a previous UCLA study: the San Fernando Valley, Huntington Park and Sunland and others.