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7.17.2019
Announcing the 2019 Pritzker Genius Award candidates
David Colgan
The candidates include mass movement advocates, coral reef conservationists and artists — in video, painting and the written word. As in previous years, candidates were nominated by environmental leaders who have already made significant contributions. A UCLA faculty committee will select three finalists. Those finalists will be presented to a panel of judges including philanthropists…
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7.15.2019
Air quality app influences behavior by linking environment to health
Nicki Aviel
Air quality mobile applications could mitigate these health risks by educating people and promoting preventive behavioral changes, a UCLA study found. “I think information can be very powerful to change your behavior,” said the study’s lead author, Magali Delmas, a professor of management at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and the Anderson…
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6.25.2019
Bike expedition raises awareness of climate change in California
Katharine Davis Reich
The California Climate Expedition is a 550-mile bike tour from Oakland to Los Angeles
Story
6.18.2019
New environmental DNA program makes conservation research faster, more efficient
David Colgan
The Anacapa Toolkit allows researchers to catalog different species’ DNA present in soil and water samples with an unprecedented efficiency.
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6.17.2019
Meet optimistic environmentalist and graduating senior Riley Griesenbeck
Nicki Aviel
Riley is one of 80 graduating with degrees in environmental science from UCLA