UCLA Announces Finalists for Tenth Annual Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award
Zuzana Buřivalová, Doris Njagi and Suzanne Pierre named 2026 Pritzker Award Finalists Ahead of October 8 award ceremony.
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PhD Graduate Highlight: Dr. Emma Barnosky Looks at the Social and Political Dimensions of Fire Management
June Lee
Emma Barnosky’s PhD research at UCLA explores the human side of wildfire, examining how Californians experience, understand, and recover from increasingly destructive fires.
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Meet the 2026 Pritzker Environmental Genius Award candidates #11-15
The final five nominees for this year’s Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award are making an impact in their own unique ways, including launching “critical ecology” as a new field of study, advocating…
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Meet the 2026 Pritzker Environmental Genius Award candidates #6-10
The next five nominees for this year’s Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award share a similarly kaleidoscopic spectrum of interest areas, including investing in ocean conservation, developing cutting-edge wildlife census tools and amplifying…
Meet the 2026 Pritzker Environmental Genius Award candidates #1–5
The first five nominees for this year’s Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award display an impressive scope of vision, everything from protecting pangolins and sloths to reimagining a more sustainable fashion industry. While…
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PhD Graduate Spotlight: Dr. Elijah Catalan Centers Community Needs in His Scientific Research
June Lee
Six years after arriving at UCLA, Dr. Elijah Catalan has graduated from the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability (IoES) with a Ph.D, a growing body of marine conservation research,…
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IoES Class of 2026 Graduation Ceremony
June Lee
The UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability celebrated the Class of 2026 during the commencement ceremony on June 14th in Ackerman Grand Ballroom, honoring graduates from the Environmental Science…
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Building community across generations: Environmental Science Alumni Reunion Celebrates 20 Years
June Lee
UCLA Environmental Science alumni, students, and faculty gathered to celebrate the program’s 20th anniversary, highlighting its lasting impact and the strong community of environmental professionals it continues to inspire.
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Announcing the 2026 Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award nominees
Meet 15 remarkable young environmental leaders who are already making a difference.
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B.S in Environmental Science Practicum: Celebrating 20 Years of Hands-on Problem Solving
June Lee
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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Heat is killing more Angelenos. UCLA is turning community health workers into a frontline of defense
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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PhD Candidate Spotlight: Rachel Sheinberg and the Future of Equitable Energy
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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Environmental Science Needs the Humanities: IoES Prof. Ursula K. Heise Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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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UCLA researchers show dams can help repair the rivers they disrupt
Benjamin Paul
Strategic “designer flows” can help maintain the ecological health of rivers below important dams.
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The LA Residential Energy Transition (RESET) Tool—your next energy bill reimagined for electrified futures
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 Awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize
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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The Power of Positive Climate Action: Professor Tim Lenton Delivers IoES’s Inaugural Richard P. and Linda S. Turco Lecture
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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Blueprint for a better planet: How UCLA is leading the way toward a healthier, more sustainable future
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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Cruel summer: March heat wave is a reminder to the West
Alison Hewitt
Extreme heat is a year-round problem – and summer is coming
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In memoriam: Benedict Schwegler, D.Env. ’99, environmental engineer who redefined sustainability in Disney’s global theme parks
Claire Griffiths
Remembering the UCLA alumnus and Disney Imagineer who made it ‘safe to have fun’
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How can we chart a safer path forward in the wake of the historic LA fires?
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