Category Archives: Science & Health

UCLA announces ‘Grand Challenge’ for environmental sustainability

Last week, UCLA announced a new goal – helping the city of Los Angeles switch to solely renewable sources of energy and local water resources by 2050. The project, called “Thriving in a Hotter Los Angeles,” is the first in a series of six “Grand Challenges” UCLA plans to announce over the next few years […]

UCLA unveils sustainability goal as part of Grand Challenge Initiative

UCLA announced a new goal Friday to have the city of Los Angeles use exclusively renewable sources of energy and local water resources by 2050. The project, called “Thriving in a Hotter Los Angeles,” is the first in a series of six “grand challenges” UCLA plans to announce over the next five years as part […]

UCLA professor integrates passion for music in research on communication

The sound of a bow pulling across a violin string fills students’ ears in a Royce Hall classroom. Making the sound with no other instruments but his voice, Greg Bryant, a communication studies professor at UCLA, explained to his class how people tend to categorize certain sounds. Bryant currently teaches classes on the connection between […]

Nobel Peace Prize nominee, political activist Ahmed Maher to speak at UCLA

Ahmed Maher, a prominent protest organizer during the Egyptian revolution in 2011 and a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, will speak on a panel today at UCLA. The political activist is returning to UCLA for the third time to participate in a panel called “Reclaiming the Egyptian Revolution” at 3 p.m. in the Charles E. Young […]

UCLA professor researches birdsongs in Mexico, Australia

Charles Taylor played the complex, croaky, squawky birdsong of a scrub jay, an aggressive bird that eats bird eggs and young hatchlings. Within 30 seconds, three birds flew from different trees in the Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden tucked in the corner of UCLA. “They’re alarmed. They’re coming to check it out,” Taylor said while […]