Among the highlights: UCLA becoming the first UC to guarantee on-campus housing for all undergraduates, a new initiative to study hate, an NCAA championship in women’s soccer and a discovery of “sweater weather” on the moon.
Using smartphone data to examine how cooling centers are being used in Los Angeles County, UCLA researchers present several recommendations for policymakers, including placing more cooling centers in underserved neighborhoods where residents are more reliant on them, placing centers close to transit stops and making cooling centers a part of more comprehensive strategies to mitigate extreme heat exposure.
A new study by researchers at UCLA and the MIT Press finds that colleges and universities face significant challenges in capturing data, and that they severely lag the private sector and government entities in using data to solve higher education challenges and inform strategic planning.
The goal is eventually to increase the Native student, faculty and staff populations while deepening UCLA’s commitment to research into Indigenous studies.
UCLA-led research on deer and elk could help inform the construction of crossings in L.A. County and throughout the nation, pointing the way toward crossing structures that are more effective for all species.
A UCLA-led international research collaboration has developed a cost-effective way to use perovskite in solar cells while protecting it from the conditions that cause it to deteriorate.
Researchers from UCLA, USC and Los Angeles County find that people experiencing homelessness in L.A. who contract COVID-19 are more than twice as likely to die than someone in the general population; the likely cause is the vulnerability brought on by accelerated aging.
