Grand Challenges

29 UCLA Faculty on Thomson Reuters ‘most cited’ list for influential scholarship

29 UCLA faculty members are among the most influential scientists in their fields for 2015, as determined by Thomson Reuters.

Are Uber and Lyft helping or hurting the environment?

UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs transportation expert Juan Matute contributes to the conversation: “Are Uber and Lyft helping or hurting the environment?” Juan Matute is also affiliated with UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and the department of Urban Planning.

UCLA faculty voice: El Nino isn’t a drought buster – it’s a missed opportunity

When Los Angeles waterways like the Ballona Creek surge on rainy days, most of that water is lost to runoff rather than retained for usage by our water systems.

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Mark Gold, Associate Vice Chancellor for Environment and Sustainability at UCLA, foreshadows tens of billions of gallons of lost water runoff resulting from Los Angeles’ lack of appropriate infrastructure to capture and store rainfall.

Mountain lions of L.A.

According to Robert Wayne and Seth Riley of the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, recent changes in the health and behavior of Santa Monica mountain lions could be mitigated by the construction of an overpass for the animals on the 101 freeway, opening up a migration route.

Urban Planning at your fingertips thanks to new web app from UCLA Lewis Center

The Revision web application allows any user to very simply aggregate data from various public and private sources.

Thanks to “Revision”, a new web application created by the UCLA Lewis Center with leadership from Juan Matute (Institute of the Environment and Sustainability; UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, department of Urban Planning) anyone can aggregate data from various public and private sources to create a complete picture of neighborhood change with just a few clicks.

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