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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Members of the LGBTQ community on campus said they are frustrated with a federal policy that bans men who have sex with men from donating blood unless they are celibate for one year. Read more...
Photo: Panelists at the Hammer Museum discussed the Food and Drug Administration’s ban on blood donation from men who have sex with men Tuesday. (Daniel Leibowitz/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)
With the help of an instrument the size of a shoe box, UCLA researchers hope to eventually monitor the health of plants over the entire Earth. Read more...
Photo: Ulli Seibt, Katja Grossmann and Jochen Stutz conduct their research on the rooftop of the UCLA Mathematical Sciences Building. (Courtesy of Katja Grossmann)
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)
One academic believes that an excessive amount of resources is wasted on the hasty pursuance of drug trials, which don’t always generate conclusive results. However, UCLA Health officials think that the drug approval process is relatively efficient. Read more...
Photo: Jonathan Kimmelman, a biomedical ethics professor at McGill University, spoke to medical students and healthcare professionals about pharmaceutical ethics at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center on Tuesday. (Hannah Burnett/Daily Bruin)
