Technology continues to advance and expand, creating environmental challenges and potential solutions.
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Remembering the UCLA alumnus and Disney Imagineer who made it ‘safe to have fun’
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From the lecture halls of Westwood to the world’s most prestigious scientific stage, UCLA’s Nobel-winning alumni trace their triumphs to a common source: a public university that opened doors
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The feature traces how an engineer’s logic — and a long view of progress — shape Pritzker’s approach to environmental change
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The award highlights faculty whose research has demonstrably improved lives locally, nationally and globally
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Deepak Rajagopal, professor at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, discusses India’s proposed fuel-economy rules — Phase III Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards — in his op-ed for…
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The UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability is proud to share that Ph.D. candidate Lorena De la Puente Burlando has been accepted into the 2025–2026 Critical Minerals Research Lab,…
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Rajit Gadh, director of the Smart Grid Energy Research Center at UCLA and professor at UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, spoke with IEEE Spectrum about the role of…
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UCLA professor Ann Carlson discusses the legal uncertainty surrounding California’s gas car ban for The Hill, sharing how the incoming Trump administration may attempt to undo the Biden administration’s recent…
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UCLA has a long history of sustainability leadership — from early energy efficiency efforts and the formation of the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability in the 1990s, to the establishment of…
Interview on The Young Turks ScIQ with UCLA environmental economist Alan Barreca by Jayde Lovell about climate change effects on public health, vulnerable communities, and the state of California. They also…
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