UCLA faculty and students will update the County of Los Angeles’ sustainability grade based on its air quality and use of sustainable energy. The report card is a project led by the Sustainable LA Grand Challenge, a research initiative out of the UCLA Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, which aims to make Los Angeles County environmentally sustainable by 2050. Read more...
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UCLA professors expect President-elect Donald Trump’s immigration policies to have little effect on Los Angeles. City officials will develop a plan to protect the city’s undocumented residents in response to Trump’s anti-immigration platform. Read more...
Photo: UCLA professors said they think Los Angeles will be able to resist President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to deport undocumented immigrants. (Kristie Hoang/Daily Bruin)
Maryam Shehata saw factory employees crowded into poorly lit rooms, working even through their breaks, when she walked through a manufacturing company in Hong Kong. “In general, there was an atmosphere of disconnect,” said Shehata, a third-year gender studies student. Read more...
Photo: Maryam Shehata, a third-year gender studies student, started Snack N’ Give Back, a foundation that sells snacks and donates its profit to countries like Syria, India, and Pakistan. (Chengcheng Zhang/Daily Bruin)
UCLA graduate students are encouraging young Angelenos to take ownership of their natural environments. Osceola Ward, a graduate student in Africana Studies, is encouraging high school students to reconnect with their natural environments by organizing outdoor trips through the environmental education program Outward Bound Adventures. Read more...
Photo: Osceola Ward, a graduate student in Africana studies, organizes trips through the nature education program Outward Bound Adventures to encourage black and low-income high school students from the LA area to better understand their relationship to their natural environment. (Courtesy of Osceola Ward)
Chris Flood was bewildered when a student showed up at his doorstep, delivered a care package full of snacks to him and began singing the national anthem. Read more...
Photo: Third-year philosophy student Emily Rajcic, second-year biology student Jackie Lin, third-year bioengineering student Fiona Tang and first-year mechanical engineering student Sam Gessow created a care package delivery service for UCLA students. (Haoyang Yan/Daily Bruin)
Several students and professors expressed their apprehension for the climate’s future under president-elect Donald Trump’s policies on environmental issues. Trump promised voters during his campaign that he will dismantle the United States Environmental Protection Agency and withdraw from the Paris Agreement. Read more...
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Carmine Clemente was one of the first UCLA professors in the ’70s to be more than a lecturer. He would prioritize interacting and engaging with students at a time when most professors simply stood in front of their classes to teach. Read more...
Photo: Carmine Clemente, a distinguished professor emeritus of neurobiology, died on Nov. 11 at the age of 88. He taught anatomy at UCLA for the past 52 years. (Courtesy of Jonathan Hiatt)
