Angel Fulgencio graduated from UCLA with BA in Geography/ Environmental Studies and minor Geospatial Information Systems & Technology. He conducted research on paleoclimate, climate change, and geochemistry, and engaged in community outreach.
Serving for 5 years in the Army as a Aviation Operation Specialist with 25th Infantry Division, he deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom for a year and with Operation Iraqi Freedom for 15 months.
Angel is a founding board member of the Alumni Association’s Channel Islands Regional Network and one of the group’s leading volunteers. As a Bruin leader, he serves as their communications chair, helping to strengthen the regional network through newsletters and emails, as well as supervising the network’s social media channels. He also participates in the UCLA Volunteer Center’s program in conjunction with the nonprofit group Operation Gratitude, supporting service members by sending handwritten letters and care packages. Angel gives back to UCLA by continuing to volunteer with the Community Programs Office, mentoring transfer and non-traditional students. For all of his incredible volunteer work he was the recipient of the 2016 Young Alumni Volunteer of the Year Award.
He is now a graduate student at Columbia University School of Social Work.
I’m originally from Gardena, CA. I was a physics major with a minor in geophysics and planetary physics while attending UCLA, did research on paleoclimate and geochemistry, and engaged in community outreach. Currently I am a NSF graduate fellow at UC Santa Cruz. I study brown dwarfs as exoplanet analogs and I want to understand the chemistry of their atmospheres and their climates.
Nancy recently graduated from UCLA with a degree in Earth and Environmental Science with a minor in Geospatial Information Systems & Technologies. She is committed to learning more about environmental change and conservation on soil and water. She is part of a research team looking at paleoclimate changes across the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum.
Carbon dioxide is a major component of the greenhouse gases that trap heat in Earth’s atmosphere. Many scientists search for ways to reduce CO2 emissions. But Gaurav Sant, UCLA associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, is making industrial pollution part of the solution. Sant and an interdisciplinary team of collaborators have invented a sustainable concrete for use as a building material. Thus far, the cement-like material has only been produced at laboratory scale, using 3-D printers to shape it into tiny cones. Now the UCLA inventors are tackling the challenges of industrial scale. “We’re not just trying to develop a building material,” Sant says. “We’re trying to develop a process solution, an integrated technology which goes right from CO2 to a finished product.”
Xinyue Li is a doctoral candidate in Environment Science and Engineering at UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, and a grid analyst at WattTime, a non-profit subsidiary of the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI). With an interdisciplinary background in sustainability and automation, she is passionate about applying data-driven and systems approach to minimizing energy related environmental impacts.
At WattTime, Xinyue’s work includes developing methodology to measure marginal carbon emissions of electricity and technologies that enable real-time automatic emissions reduction to give users the freedom to choose cleaner energy. Prior to joining WattTime, Xinyue was an intern at World Resources Institute (WRI) as a core developer of the Power Watch initiative, building a comprehensive open access global power plant database to facilitate informed policy making and business decisions in the energy sector. She had also interned at Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI Stockholm office) where she conducted research on the water and energy nexus, and Zhejiang Environment Protection Agency in China working on public participation in environmental protection. Xinyue holds a M.Sc In Sustainable Development from Uppsala University (Sweden) and B.Eng in Control Science and Engineering (Automation) from Zhejiang University (China).
Scott’s internship is with the Safer Consumer Products program within California EPA, Department of Toxic Substances Control. He was hired to evaluate lead-acid batteries and alternatives, as required by California law and the Governor. As part of this relatively new regulatory effort, he is helping set the benchmark for chemical-product evaluations that will follow. His extensive experience in human-health risk assessment is being applied to meet the needs of the wide scope of alternatives analysis, including complex decision-making. He looks forward to working with Professors Suffet and Malloy as he completes the internship and dissertation over the next year.
Altair teaches math and science at North Hollywood High for the Highly Gifted Magnet and coordinates most of the extracurricular activities in the science department. Several of his high school students have done research at UCLA.
Altair also is involved in supporting students to participate in the Science Olympiad, Science Bowl, Ocean Sciences Bowl, Research competitions (Intel, Siemens, JSHS, Science Fair, etc.), FIRST Robotics, Chemistry Olympiad, Physics Olympiad, Physics Bowl, Biology Olympiad, Computing Olympiad… and last but most certainly not least… Ultimate Frisbee.
Dr. Victoria Petryshyn was a postdoctoral researcher at UCLA. She now is a faculty member in the Environmental Studies Program at USC. Vicky completed her B.S. and M.S. and Ph.D. at USC. She was also a postdoctoral researcher at the European Institute of Marine Sciences.
