Kenyan entrepreneur and his company, Solar Freeze, received the 2022 Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award for finding an environmentally friendly way to help small Kenyan farms preserve their produce in order to sell it during periods of peak demand. The $100,000 annual prize provides support for promising young innovators, boosting their careers as champions for the environment.
Diplomats from Australia, Egypt, France, Mexico and Romania came together at UCLA on November 10 for a program that enlightened audience members about the diplomats’ roles in local responses to global challenges. The event, held at the UCLA Faculty Club and cosponsored by the Los Angeles Consular Corps, was part of UCLA International Education Week activities.
Educating first-generation students is a critical component of the University of California’s mission of education, research and public service. Read some of the student and staff stories and learn more about how UC is working to help them thrive and how their education contributes to a strong California economy.
The list, compiled annually by analytics firm Clarivate, identifies scholars whose work has been cited most often in papers published by other researchers in their fields over the past decade. Research by UCLA scholars ranged from medicine and engineering to mathematics, astronomy and environmental sciences.
Miguel Santana, President and CEO of the Weingart Foundation, and Gary Segura, Dean of the UCLA Luskin Center of Public Affairs discuss the past and future of Latino politics in Los Angeles.
