UCLA’s California Center for Sustainable Communities (CCSC) is part of a research team that was awarded a $9 million California Energy Commission grant for the development of an innovative renewable energy access project in the San Gabriel Valley.
Read more →The UCLA Sustainable LA Grand Challenge is pleased to invite all UCLA faculty to participate in the Sustainable LA Grand Challenge (SLA GC) Sandpit 2020. The cross-campus exercise will culminate in a funding award up to $1 million for promising research.
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A UCLA research team led by Gaurav Sant (professor in the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering) received a two-year, $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to advance their development of a process that can convert carbon dioxide emissions into construction materials.
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The UCLA Sustainable LA Grand Challenge (SLA GC) received an Instructional Improvement Grant from the Committee on Instructional Improvement Programs through UCLA’s Center for the Advancement of Teaching, to formally assess the impact of the signature SLA GC Undergraduate Research Scholars Program (URSP). The assessment will focus on the degree to which graduates of the course have pursued sustainability-related careers or education, as well as the students’ self-reported preparedness for interdisciplinary teamwork.
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The UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation is analyzing a plan to recycle all of Los Angeles’ wastewater by 2035, a project that could be the largest capital water project investment in Los Angeles this century. The research project is one of several funded under a $5 million agreement announced in 2018 between the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and UCLA as part of the Sustainable LA Grand Challenge.
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