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Why UCLA’s Okanagan Charter Adoption & Cultivating a Community of Care Matters
A Peer Health Educators’ Perspective: Why UCLA’s Okanagan…
How UCLA’s Landscape Plan Affects Your Health
How UCLA’s Landscape Plan Affects Your Health
UCLA's vibrant…
Pay It Forward: Advocating for a Subway Station at UCLA
Pay It Forward: Advocating for a Subway Station at UCLA
As students…
Changes to Our Public Space
Even with all the uncertainties in the world right now, we know…
A Closer Look on Utility Box Art
More and more utility boxes are being transformed into colorful…
Refresher on the Botanical Garden
There are so many resources on the UCLA campus, but the Mildred…
Bike Recycling Day 2019
If you’ve ever wanted a bike, here’s a chance you can get…
BEWell Policy Corner: Street Vending in LA
From fresh fruit, tacos, and even Tupperware, all kinds of items…
What’s Neat About Open Streets?
Between the honks, screeching brakes, and sea of headlights,…
How to get involved in creating healthier neighborhoods
A transformation is underway in Los Angeles. People are lifting…
How Can the Built Environment at UCLA Better Support Breastfeeding Women?
Now in its third project year, Creating Space, a graduate student…
Reclaiming Our Healthy Spaces @ North Court of Sciences
What is your favorite place at UCLA? Some people love Bruin Plaza,…
Transportation Do’s and Don’ts
There are more ways than ever to get around campus and the city…
Combating Veterans Issues through Gardening
Encompassing 14 acres behind Jackie Robinson Stadium on the West…
Try Some Green Space for Your Finals Week Blues
Happy Almost Finals Week Bruins! The end of the quarter can be…
In Review: The Bruin BikeShare Program
Imagine you’re still on the hill and late for class. You need…
Five Reasons Why Green Spaces are Awesome
Recently at our annual Celebration, the Healthy Campus Initiative…
Do Scramble Crosswalks Really Save Lives?
One of the City of Los Angeles’ ongoing efforts is VisionZero…
The Built Environment of Studying
As finals week approaches, you may find yourself feeling overwhelmed…
How tomorrow’s election could affect your built-environment
Bruins, are you aware that there is an election tomorrow?
It…
New Year, New Lifestyle: Ride Public Transit
It’s almost end of January. How are you doing on your New Year’s…
Community Mother and Graduate Student Led Project, Creating Spaces Paves Way for Lactation Support
In September of 2014, new mom LeighAnna returned from summer…
Ways to conserve water in your apartment
As all California residents should know by now, the…
Eco-friendly Holiday Gift Ideas
With the holidays fast approaching, many of us are…
How Sidewalks Can Dis/Able Us
Whether you are walking to class, going to the gym, or getting…
The Era of Vaping
Written by Joyce Lan
The Transition from Smoking to Vaping…
UCLA To Experience a New Level of Bikeability
By Jimmy Tran, UCLA Transportation Bike and Pedestrian Planner
Short…
Far From The Tree: A Book that Will Expand Your Understanding of Disability
As a person with disability and a student pursuing a…
Loud Yet Easily Overlooked: Noise Pollution in Dorms and Apartments
It was about 11 PM, and, after a long day of moving in,…
Bruin Steps: Introducing UCLA HCI’s Sidewalk Series
Whether we may be aware of it or not, our daily surroundings…
Beyond the Disability Awareness Month
Perhaps some of you already know that October is National Disability…
UCLA State of the Commute 2018
UCLA Transportation produces an annual State of the Commute report…
UCLA Is Now Home to LA’s First and Only Bike Counter
By Mike King, UCLA Transportation
UCLA student, staff and…
Blue + Gold = Green… Why I am proud to be a Bruin!
Did you know that UCLA was just rated one of the top green…
10 things you probably didn’t know about bicycling at UCLA
1. There are seven miles of bike route on campus.
2. There’s…