May 19, 2021
UCLA In the News lists selected mentions of UCLA in the world’s news media. Some articles may require registration or a subscription to view. See more UCLA In the News.
“We’ve had dry springs before, but that is just astonishing,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles and The Nature Conservancy. “And we’re still a few months out from seeing the worst of things.”
Distinguished Professor Glen MacDonald, whose research at the University of California Los Angeles’ Department of Geography focuses on water resources and environmental impacts of climate change, said the size of the fires is of particular importance. “We’re not actually seeing a statistically significant increase in the number of fires we’re just seeing that the ones that get going, some of them are much, much bigger,” he told Newsweek. (Also: UCLA’s Stephanie Pincetl was quoted in Popular Science.)
UCLA
May 17, 2021
Faculty and staff are invited to join members of the COVID-19 Response and Recovery Task Force for a virtual town hall meeting on May 21.
At this town hall, task force members will share information and answer questions related to teaching in the fall. Classroom occupancy and mitigations, as well as COVID-19 testing and vaccine requirements, will also be discussed.
This event will include a presentation followed by a Q&A session with:
Adriana Galvan, dean of undergraduate education
Andrea Kasko, chair, graduate council; professor of bioengineering at the Samueli School of Engineering
Megan McEvoy, chair, undergraduate council; professor of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics
May 17, 2021
UCLA In the News lists selected mentions of UCLA in the world’s news media. Some articles may require registration or a subscription to view. See more UCLA In the News.
Queer people are six times as likely than the general population to be stopped by police, according to a new study, which provides evidence to back up the long-held belief that the community is overpoliced. Researchers at the Williams Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law, looked at data from the Generations Study a long-term study of three generations of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer people and the Police Public Contact Survey. The data did not include transgender people, but the Williams Institute noted that trans folks, especially women of color, often have negative experiences with police.
Equipment and methods proved at commercial scale to mineralize and sequester carbon dioxide gas in finished concrete have earned their developers, CarbonBuilt and CarbonCure Technologies, top honors in NRG Cosia Carbon Xprize, a $20 million global competition centered on managing and monetizing emissions from coal and natural gas combustion.
The companies will receive $7.5 million each to further develop their technologies for ready mixed and manufactured concrete production and curing. They prevailed among eight other finalists three from the United States, two from Canada, one from China, India, and United Kingdom in a six-year competition to see which team could capture the most carbon dioxide in the highest valued product(s). The 10 finalists received $500,000 for reaching the third (2019-2020) of three Carbon Xprize rounds. Launched in 2015 with 47 submissions from teams in seven countries, the competition progressed under the carbon-minded Xprize Foundation of Culver City, Cal