Sustainability Action Research

About the Sustainability Action Research program

How the SAR program works

During fall quarter, students who wish to participate must apply to the Sustainability Action Research program for winter and spring quarters. Students can apply to be either a leader (185C) or a member (185B), which is a 3 or 2-unit course, respectively. This equates to 6 or 4 graded, upper-division units over the course of winter and spring quarters. Each SAR team consists of 2 co-leaders and four to five members in addition to their stakeholder(s). 

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to the 2026-2027 SAR Directors, Isabella De La Rosa and Emma Sachse, at ucla.sar@gmail.com.

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Team leaders and members work together with a campus stakeholder to research, rethink, investigate, and tackle UCLA’s greatest sustainability issues. Above, the 2019-20 SAR Zero Waste Team partnered with Zero Waste Coordinator, Kikei Wong, to increase waste diversion at the Young Research Library (YRL). To kick off their research project, they conducted their own waste audit with the help of student volunteers and fellow SAR members.