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Stephanie Pincetl wins UCLA 2025 Public Impact Research Award
The award highlights faculty whose research has demonstrably improved lives locally, nationally and globally
Environmental Justice
Environmental problems affect everyone on the planet, but disenfranchised communities are often the most affected and least represented. We mentor and develop a diverse contingent of experts while confronting injustices at the community and global level.
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Healing mother earth, healing ourselves
Economist-turned-entrepreneur Denica Riadini-Flesch, a 2025 Pritzker Award finalist, reflects on how she left conventional models of growth to build a regenerative fashion movement
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Meet the 2025 Pritzker Environmental Genius Award candidates #1–5
These five mid-career leaders are creating climate solutions in areas and communities often left out of conventional planning
Projects
Practicum Project
Analyzing attitudes toward oil and gas drilling in Los Angeles
Research Project
Fostering Community Solar: A Student-Led Collaborative Program between UCLA and EIA University
Practicum Project
Assessing the prospective air quality and health effects for disadvantaged communities of California’s transition to zero-emission vehicles
Practicum Project
Mapping the Ecological Legacy of Slavery and Plantations on St. Croix, USVI
Practicum Project
Exploring schoolyard greening in the Los Angeles Unified School District
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Fellows
Inspiring Communities Through Science Communication: Marcos Magaña’s LA Times Fellowship
How a CDLS Fellow is bridging science and journalism
Announcements
Featured in L.A. Times—Edith de Guzman, Ph.D. ’23, reimagines L.A. climate inequities through art at Descanso Gardens
Featured in this week’s Los Angeles Times Climate and Environment coverage, Edith de Guzman, Ph.D. ‘23, brings climate and heat inequities to the spotlight. This summer at Descano Gardens, a…
Announcements
LARC Launches #HeatSafeLA Campaign to Raise Extreme Heat Awareness
As summer temperatures rise, the Los Angeles Regional Collaborative for Climate Action and Sustainability (LARC), in partnership with the LA County Department of Public Health, is launching the fourth year…
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Stephanie Pincetl for The Economist—How will calamity change Los Angeles?
UCLA IoES Professor Stephanie Pincetl discusses Los Angeles’ rebuilding efforts after the devastating wildfires for The Economist, asserting that the city should use this moment to address its housing crisis…
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UCLA’s Center for Diverse Leadership in Science hosts climate justice event with the Hip Hop Caucus
UCLA’s Center for Diverse Leadership in Science (CDLS) hosted a packed panel and documentary screening on climate justice with the civic engagement group the Hip Hop Caucus, covered by Spectrum…
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Student practicum team drills into urban oil fields
A student-led survey has uncovered stark disparities in public health outcomes for L.A. neighborhoods with oil and gas drilling.
Open for business in the Congo rainforest
Recently, crew of college students from UCLA and Cameroon left convenience behind and plunged into the rainforest. Their objective: reopen a field station that had been shuttered for two decades,…
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Support students through the Center for Diverse Leadership in Science
The first-ever university center for diversity in environmental science was launched at UCLA in 2018.
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