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Team led by UCLA CEE Professor Yousef Bozorgnia Awarded $3 Million Research Grant By CEC
UCLA civil and environmental engineering professor and Natural Hazards Risk and Resiliency Research Center (NHR3) director Yousef Bozorgnia heads a research project that was just awarded a $3 million contract by the California Energy Commission (CEC). The...
UCLA Graduate Student-Led Study Featured by JPL/NASA
Photo courtesy of I. Callejas A study entitled, “A GEE toolkit for water quality monitoring from 2002 to 2022 in support of SDG 14 and coral health in marine protected areas in Belize,” was featured on the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)/ National Aeronautics and...
Professor Mekonnen Gebremichael Leads Water Research in East Africa
Photo courtesy of H. Gunther Water management practices are a key topic of interest for Mekonnen Gebremichael, a professor of the civil and environmental engineering department at UCLA. Curious as to how these practices vary from country to country, principal...
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Yifan Graduate Student named 2024 Graduate Student Awardee in Environmental Chemistry by ACS
Photo Courtesy of Yifan Gao Yifan Gao, Ph.D. Candidate, was named 2024 Graduate Student Awardee in Environmental Chemistry by the American Chemical Society (ACS), Division of Environmental Chemistry. This award recognizes graduate students globally who are working in...
Professor Jonathan Stewart elected to National Academy of Engineering
Photo provided by UCLA Samueli Newsroom Stewart, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at UCLA Samueli and co-director of UCLA’s Natural Hazards Risk and Resiliency Research Center, was elected by the academy for developing “improved understanding...
Prof. Jiaqi Ma and Collaborators Lead UCLA Study: Electric Vehicles’ Impact on Air Quality Limited in Disadvantaged Communities
Originally posted on UCLA Newsroom and article below originally posted on UCLA Samueli. Although electric vehicle ownership is higher in wealthier neighborhoods than in disadvantaged ones, EVs improve air quality in all communities, a UCLA study found. But that’s not...
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