Glass that doesn’t reduce to shards. Inclined tops on vending machines. A clear line of sight down the platform. When security experts get to do the planning, their “environmental design” upgrades make subway cars, trains and stations less tempting targets for terrorists. <more>

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Pouria Abbassi ’89, general manager of the Los Angeles Convention Center, dreams of enormous eco-friendly buildings in a vibrant urban environment. Can his ideas transform the city of the future? <more>

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Will you be ready when disaster strikes? Will help arrive in an emergency, and will there be programs to speed recovery?
When it comes to natural disasters, the ways UCLA fulfills its three-part mission of research, education and service draw sharply into focus:
• Research on mitigating the effects of disasters – from helping hospitals withstand […]

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Deep in the basement of Boelter Hall, on a 40-foot by 60-foot floor, five feet thick, UCLA scientists are simulating the effects of earthquakes on specific buildings – from low-level shaking all the way up to the “Big One.” Their goal? More effective and economical seismic retrofitting for our hospitals. <more>

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Adults, children, infants – click for instructions on building disaster kits for the whole family.
One Infant or Toddler (0-12 months) (PDF)One Child (1-3 years old) (PDF)One Child (4-10 years old) (PDF)One Adult (or Child over 10 years old) (PDF)

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It may be the greatest urban planning challenge in the U.S., but when New Orleans needed a recovery czar after Hurricane Katrina, it turned to a Bruin – Edward J. Blakely, Ed.D. ’71. <more>

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He dreamt of being the “father of emergency medicine,” and of helping “in the development of the emergency medical system in Kenya and within the sub-Saharan region.” To learn how, Dr. Charles Otieno enrolled in UCLA’s School of Public Health. <more> (PDF)

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UCLA scholars have contributed important breakthroughs in thought – “game changing” ideas that have significantly expanded humankind’s body of knowledge. In the genius of each of these faculty members, there are lessons to be found on how to think big every day.

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“My first idea was quite wrong, and it took me a while to figure out why,” said biological chemist Elizabeth Neufeld, Ph.D. “I was ultimately able to solve this group of diseases that had been a puzzle, and in a fairly unusual way.” Neufeld went on to win a National Medal of Science […]

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Since the passage of Prop. 71, ten established stem cell scientists have relocated to California, and 14 young investigators have come west – including six new UCLA scientists, according to an informal poll from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine.
This influx of top talent puts UCLA in position to make big advances in […]

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Universities have a dual role when it comes to the environment — to create knowledge about the Earth and to develop solutions to problems.
Here are seven things UCLA is doing for the environment that will affect your everyday life — from checking the weather report to your morning commute. Plus, learn what you can […]

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