Pair trained UCLA students with K-12 teachers in underserved communities for 20-week assignments, and charge them with using theater, dance and architecture to explore subjects as diverse as environmental science, history and math. That’s the premise behind ArtsBridge, an effort to empower and engage students in the classroom through art. ArtsBridge at UCLA’s School of [...]

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To prepare students to be competitive in a global economy, UCLA’s International Institute offers K-12 teachers free curricula on international issues, including a Teach Africa training course that breaks down stereotypes. <more>

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Forget blueprints and hard-to-understand charts. The Urban Simulation Team at UCLA combines relatively simple 3-D models with aerial photographs and street-level video to create realistic models of neighborhoods. Maneuvering a computer mouse as in a video game, users can “drive” through or “fly” over animated landscapes. The team’s models have already: Take a virtual tour [...]

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Team UCLA engineering and art students with Disney Imagineers, then charge them with bringing together art, education, history, culture, community and technology in a very traditional venue – a state park. See what happened when Remapping L.A. gave it a shot. <more>

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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> Listen to the podcast:

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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 [...]

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Wildfires leave behind much more than ashes. Increased amounts of iron, aluminum and mercury accumulate in watershed systems after a fire. UCLA scientists, studying how this adversely affects downstream water supplies, have already put their research to practical use with the National Weather Service and the U.S. Geological Survey.

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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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Fortuitously timed population data – combined with good old-fashioned sleuthing and the latest technology – are giving UCLA researchers a better look at what’s happening to Indonesians since the 2004 tsunami than after any disaster in scientific literature. What they find may revolutionize how we help people on the road to recovery. <more> (PDF)

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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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