Each year, UCLA Transportation reviews the commuting trends of the university’s 85,000 students, staff, and faculty. This year’s report highlights that employee hybrid work schedules had the most impact on university commutes since large-scale remote work began in the spring of 2020. This break from the usual five-day commute reduces traffic congestion and greenhouse gas emissions, keeping harmful air pollutants away from the campus and the surrounding communities.
UCLA also continues to advocate for more transportation equity and opportunity for those who are traditionally underserved. These advocacy efforts include ongoing support of several regional rail projects that are underway (Purple D Line Subway Extension) or in the planning stages (Sepulveda Transit Corridor) and securing funding for electric vehicle infrastructure to serve Bruins as well as campus visitors.
Related: For more information about the Sepulveda Transit Corridor visit stc4all.org.
Founded in 2013, the free, innovative program has annually – except for pandemic years – welcomed two classes of fourth-, fifth- or sixth-graders from Los Angeles for an immersive experience into the process and products of artistic creation and curation. The program is a collaboration between the Hammer Museum, the Visual and Performing Arts Education Program (VAPAE) in the UCLA School of the Arts & Architecture, and public school teachers.
This year marks the centennial of UCLA’s first African American sorority and fraternity. In recognition of the contributions and the impact both organizations have had on Black life at UCLA, the university is honoring each with permanent plaques on campus. The unveiling of the fraternity’s marker took place at an April 24 ceremony at Kerckhoff Hall and the sorority’s dedication unveiling will occur later in the year.
Despite an overall uptick, dissatisfaction with the quality of life in L.A. County remains high due to inflation, homelessness and the COVID-19 pandemic. “The income disparities that have defined the Southern California economy for several decades have been exacerbated by COVID, as the rich seem to be getting richer while the poor are getting poorer,” said Zev Yaroslavsky, director of the Los Angeles Initiative, who oversees the index. “County residents whose incomes have not rebounded have less money than they used to, and what they have doesn’t buy what it did before. They’re getting hurt coming and going.”
A new bill (AB 779), which grew out of a UCLA legal clinic project, seeks to amend the adjudication process in three ways: inform the public about adjudication proceedings; clear a path for expert agencies to provide science-based testimony; and ensure groundwater is sustainably managed while rights are adjudicated.
The UCLA Alumni Association highlights the hard work, talent and innovation of exceptional alumni business owners, founders and visionaries with this annual recognition. Discover the Bruin businesses spanning healthcare, education, environmental issues, professional services and more.
Forecasting the Supreme Court decision which struck down Roe v. Wade last year, the state of California sought a partner that could help women across the country, and policymakers turned to UCLA School of Law to create the Center on Reproductive Health, Law, and Policy.
Daily discipline rates at middle schools fluctuate in noticeable patterns throughout the academic year, and they escalate more rapidly — and remain higher — for Black students than for white students, according to a study by researchers at UCLA, UC Berkeley, and Stanford published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Podcast: Conversation with UCLA Luskin co-director Greg Pierce:What needs to happen at the local, state, and federal level to combat negative perceptions about tap water while ensuring it is indeed safe to drink?
Five-episode podcast:featuring a conversation between UCLA professor Alex Hall and Evan Meyer, executive director of the Theodore Payne Foundation, around the topics of building of a garden, water conservation and habitat restoration in urban Los Angeles.
A new UCLA Health study has found that Black, Hispanic, and Native American students taking the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) prior to applying to medical school have more financial and educational barriers, and face greater discouragement from important advisors compared to their white counterparts. These findings, published in JAMA Health Forum, come amidst an impending Supreme Court ruling in June that will potentially ban affirmative action, a practice that takes race as one of many factors into consideration when reviewing applications.
UCLA’s Baljit Khakh, professor of physiology and neurobiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine, shared the groundbreaking studies of the role of overlooked brain cells in brain function and neurological and psychiatric diseases.
Khakh also spoke about his research, his work with high school students from underserved backgrounds and what the future may hold in terms of therapeutics for brain-related disorders.
