The Sustainable L.A. Grand Challenge’s TRACtion program partner Juan Matute, Deputy Director of the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies, has been pedaling to campus for the past 16 years — from his days as an undergraduate student studying urban planning, through earning his MBA, to his present professional role. A resident of Santa Monica, his bike commute to UCLA is 4.7 miles and takes about 30 minutes.
Catherine Coleman Flowers joined the UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Lecture Series on April 27 to share the triumphs and frustrations of her journey in equitable water sanitation across the United States. Flowers is the founder of the nonprofit Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice, and has also received a MacArthur Foundation “genius” award. She’s been serving as vice chair of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council.
In Elizabeth Schiffler’s childhood home in Seattle, gathering around food and being well-fed were considered family values; it was a sense of warmth, caring, nurturing and security that she carried with her as an undergraduate theater student at the University of Washington.
“I would get bagels for everyone in the morning to make sure that people didn’t start rehearsal hungry,” she recalled. “[After rehearsal], we would do meals together. In the same way that theater makes us commune, food makes us commune as well.”
The home garden of UCLA climate scientist Alex Hall will be featured as part of the Theodore Payne Foundation’s 20th anniversary Native Garden Tour this Saturday, April 15. Hall, a professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences and interim director of the Sustainable LA Grand Challenge, has been developing his sustainability demonstration garden for about eight years.
Dear Bruin Graduate Student Community and Colleagues:
The UCLA Sustainable LA Grand Challenge is now accepting applications to its signature graduate student offering, the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Fellows Program, which will form its third cohort during Summer 2023 and/or Academic Year 2023–24.
Alex Hall, a professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences and director of UCLA’s Center for Climate Science, has been named the interim faculty director of the UCLA Sustainable LA Grand Challenge.
Hall’s appointment, which went into effect March 1, follows the decision of former director and engineering professor Eric Hoek to return to research and teaching after completing a three-year term in the role.
The UCLA Sustainable LA Grand Challenge has received a commitment of $542,986 from wellness company Liquid I.V. that will help fund innovative solutions to expand access to clean and abundant water for communities in need, and create the next-generation of climate and sustainability advocates.
Dear Sustainable LA Grand Challenge community,
Welcome to a new era of the UCLA Sustainable LA Grand Challenge with the launch of our new website at www.sustainablela.ucla.edu!
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