Environmental Science seniors partnered with organizations across California to tackle real-world challenges, presenting research and solutions while celebrating 20 years of UCLA’s signature capstone practicum.
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As extreme heat becomes California’s deadliest climate threat, UCLA and Los Angeles County are training community health workers to serve as “heat ambassadors,” bringing life-saving information and resources directly to vulnerable residents. The LARC-HEAT program aims to build neighborhood resilience through trusted, person-to-person outreach.
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June Lee
Rachel Sheinberg, a Ph.D. candidate at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability (IoES) graduating this year, studies a critical challenge in the clean energy transition: who benefits, and who could be left behind.
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Ursula K. Heise, distinguished professor at UCLA with cross-appointments in the Department of English and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary society.
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Benjamin Paul
Strategic “designer flows” can help maintain the ecological health of rivers below important dams.
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Rachel Sheinberg
Explore how renewable energy transitions and home electrification will shape household energy spending and burden across Los Angeles.
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Dr. Iroro Tanshi, recipient of the Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award, has been honored with the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize in recognition of her extraordinary leadership in wildlife conservation and environmental advocacy.
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Climate scientist Tim Lenton warns that the planet is nearing dangerous climate tipping points but argues that the same self-reinforcing dynamics can be used to drive rapid, positive change.
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For more than 50 years, UCLA has been a world leader in environmentalism and sustainability. Since the launch of the campus’s pioneering environmental studies program in the early 1970s —…
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Alison Hewitt
Extreme heat is a year-round problem – and summer is coming
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Claire Griffiths
Remembering the UCLA alumnus and Disney Imagineer who made it ‘safe to have fun’
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Madeline Adamo
UCLA hosted the first annual LA Fire Research Conference to answer that question — convening researchers from across the U.S., agencies and survivors
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Claire Griffiths
A new UCLA–NRDC report finds cities pay far more for water than agricultural districts, even as climate change exacerbates shortages across the Lower Colorado River Basin
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Claire Griffiths
Hall’s research — from climate modeling to wildfire and water forecasting — is now among the most widely referenced in the world, earning him a place on the 2025 Highly Cited Researchers list
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Madeline Adamo
UCLA College’s new “Cabinet of Curiosities” podcast explores the fang-tastic North-South collaboration
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Alison Hewitt
From the lecture halls of Westwood to the world’s most prestigious scientific stage, UCLA’s Nobel-winning alumni trace their triumphs to a common source: a public university that opened doors
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Claire Griffiths
Fast fashion degrades land and people. In Indonesia, Riadini-Flesch is proving it can also heal soil, cut carbon and empower women
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The feature traces how an engineer’s logic — and a long view of progress — shape Pritzker’s approach to environmental change
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Claire Griffiths
The award highlights faculty whose research has demonstrably improved lives locally, nationally and globally
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Seema Lokhandwala
Seema Lokhandwala, a 2025 Pritzker Award finalist, reflects on how a childhood encounter with an elephant grew into a lifelong commitment to protecting the fragile bonds between people and wildlife
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Anthony Waddle
From childhood explorations in the Mojave to tackling the chytrid fungus, 2025 Pritzker Award finalist Anthony Waddle charts a path of science, memory and conservation