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By Alison Hewitt Originally posted in UCLA Newsroom A team of scientists has resolved a nearly 80-year-old mystery surrounding a group of frogs in and around New York City known…
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IoES and Anderson School of Management Professor Magali Delmas and colleagues conducted a study on the validity of data obtained from corporate social responsibility assessments.
The Los Angeles Times published an op-ed by Center for Tropical Research Director Tom Smith about the country's conservation challenges and actions needed to protect the region's natural resources.
The Institute of the Environment and Sustainability has been chosen by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to help find innovative ways to increase public awareness of toxic chemical releases.
Magali Delmas, professor of management at the IoES, is the lead author of a study featured in the Summer 2013 edition of the MIT Sloan Management Review.
Executives and researchers met on May 8 to discuss the challenges and opportunities raised by sustainable supply chain management at a workshop conducted by the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability's Corporate Partners Program.
A research proposal initiated by IoES and Anderson School of Management's Magali Delmas received $25,000 funding from the UCLA Transdisciplinary Seed Grant program.
UCLA Professor Magali Delmas received a $446,912 grant from the National Science Foundation for her ongoing research tracking energy use in individual homes and testing what motivates people to reduce their power usage.
The Institute of the Environment and Sustainability partnered with the UCLA School of Law to produce a comprehensive plan for Los Angeles that addresses environmental challenges.
The Center for Tropical Research (CTR) is partnering with Global Green Carbon Corporation (GGC) on a major conservation project in Cameroon—a country in west Central Africa.
by Brenda Larison, Ph.D., Researcher, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Center for Tropical Research, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA