IoES student Joanna Wheaton wins UCLA Alumni Association’s Distinguished Senior Award
This award recognizes academic excellence, leadership, involvement, and service to the UCLA community.
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Center for Tropical Research November 2012 Newsletter
CTR researchers report on a study exploring cryptic diversity with Indian and Pacific Ocean Big Fin Reef Squids and workshops held focused on building the capacity to control animal-borne influenza in Cameroon and Egypt.
Sustainable Storytelling
The Education for Sustainable Living Program hosts seminars and screenings on sustainability issues.
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The Institute of the Environment and Sustainability (IoES) will assume management of the White Mountains Research Station (WMRS). WMRS is a full service field station with room, board, lab, and…
Connecting the Wintering and Breeding Sites of Migratory Songbirds Using New Isotopic and Genetic Methods
by Kristen Ruegg, Ph.D., Research Associate, University of California, Santa Cruz and Senior Research Fellow, Center for Tropical Research, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA
E3 Club sows seeds for schools
The Daily Bruin featured an article about the student group's initiative that educates kids about nutrition and sustainable food production through garden projects.
10 questions: Conservation prof on a fascinating extinction
Amphibian expert Brad Shaffer is watching a battle for survival between the endangered California-native tiger salamander and its larger, non-native "cousin," brought in in the 1950s from Texas
Daily Bruin: Preserving Sage Hill
Originally published by Itak Moradi in the Daily Bruin An archery range and a clubhouse on the Hill? Sounds cool enough. Until you realize that UCLA Capital Programs is considering this…
Center for Tropical Research November 2011 Newsletter
CTR researchers report on a study tracking migratory songbirds and field research on seed dispersal of a tropical tree in Ecuador
The Ecological and Genetic Role of Seed Dispersal for a Tropical Tree in Ecuador
by Stephanie Steele, Graduate Student, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Center for Tropical Research, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA
UCLA scientists find H1N1 flu virus prevalent in animals in Africa
UCLA life scientists and their colleagues have discovered the first evidence of the H1N1 virus in animals in Africa. In one village in northern Cameroon, a staggering 89 percent of the pigs studied had been exposed to the H1N1 virus, commonly known as the swine flu.
Center for Tropical Research May 2011 Newsletter
CTR researchers investigate stripe variation in the African plains zebra and monkeypox transmission in the Congo Basin.
Using Remote Sensing to Map the Principal Carrier of Monkeypox Virus in the Congo Basin
by Trevon Fuller, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Tropical Research, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA
CNE-TV spotlights new International Research and Training Center, Central Africa
Watch presentation highlights plus a one-on-one interview with Center for Tropical Research (CTR) Director Tom Smith and CTR Africa Director Kevin Njabo.
IoES awards first Glickfeld Family Scholarship
Environmental Science major Nancy Tu is the new scholarship recipient.
UCLA joins Southern California Marine Institute to revitalize marine research in Los Angeles
UCLA joins a a strategic alliance of 11 major universities in southern California dedicated to advancing ocean studies.
A champion of sustainability
Q&A with Dr. Paul Anastas, Assistant Administrator for the Office of Research and Development and Science Advisor to the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
Center for Tropical Research November 2010 Newsletter
Dear Friends, Our feature article in this Fall’s CTR Newsletter, by Adam Freedman, discusses CTR’s efforts to understand the implications of losing ecological gradients. While the impacts of habitat destruction…
IoE receives gift to establish Pritzker Fund for Environment and Sustainability Education
An endowment from business leader Tony Pritzker will stregthen the Institute of the Environment's undergraduate academic program.
Center for Tropical Research May 2010 Newsletter
Dear Friends, The associated researchers of CTR continue to explore exciting research projects around the globe on a range of biodiversity, disease, and conservation issues. We are making significant progress…
For California vintners, it’s not easy being green
IoE Professor Magali Delmas studies the economics of eco-labels for California wines.
UCLA and partners establish the La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science
Southern California is 'ground zero' for conservation in the 21st century
Center for Tropical Research November 2009 Newsletter
Dear Friends of CTR, Despite the financial cutbacks faced by the University of California, the researchers at CTR continue to make great progress on a range of exciting projects. These…