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UCLA Sustainability Committee

The UCLA Sustainability Committee is committed to creating and advancing a culture of sustainability within the UCLA community.

UCLA Campus Sustainability Charter

Documents and Reports

Members

Members of the UCLA Sustainability Committee represent a broad range of campus experiences.

Committee participants include staff from the Chancellor's Office, Capital Programs, General Services, Housing, Student Affairs, and University Communications; faculty with expertise in business, ecology, public health, and the environment; as well as both graduate and undergraduate students.

Committee Chair

  • Cully Nordby, Academic Director, Institute of the Environment

Students

  • Alisa Ahmadian, Undergraduate student
  • Michelle Hashemi, Graduate student
  • Juan Matute, Graduate student
  • Kim Sanders, Undergraduate student

Faculty

  • Richard Ambrose, Director, Environmental Science & Engineering
  • Francesco Chiappelli, Professor, Division of Oral Biology & Medicine
  • Carl Maida, Adjunct Professor, School of Dentistry
  • Thomas B. Smith, Acting Director, Institute of the Environment
  • Blair Van Valkenburgh, Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Staff

  • Peter Angelis, Assistant Vice Chancellor, Housing & Hospitality Services
  • April De Stefano, Assistant Director, Center for the Study of Women
  • Robert Gilbert, Sustainability Coordinator, Housing and Hospitality Services
  • Nurit Katz, UCLA Sustainability Coordinator
  • Tova Lelah, Assistant Director, Campus and Environmental Plannning
  • Lawrence Lokman, Assistant Vice Chancellor University Communications
  • Antoinette Mongelli, Assistant Chancellor
  • Cary Porter, Senior Associate Dean, Student Affairs
  • Jack Powazek, Associate Vice Chancellor General Services
  • Bill Propst, Director, Purchasing
  • Jack Raab, Director, Events
  • Sue Santon, Associate Vice Chancellor Capital Programs
  • Michael Stone, Executive Director, Marketing & Communication Services
  • Robert Williams, Executive Director, ASUCLA

Committee Staff

  • Andrew Bray, Campus Sustainability Committee GSR

Subcommittees

 Past Members

  • Charles Corbett, Associate Dean, Anderson School of Management
  • Mary Nichols, Director, Institute of the Environment
  • Marissa Levi, Undergraduate student
  • Cathy Campbell, Express Training Coordinator
  • Robert Gilbert, Campus Sustainability Committee GSR

History

In the spring of 2004, the CA Student Sustainability Coalition (CSSC) at UCLA drafted a letter to Chancellor Carnesale requesting the creation of a Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Sustainability.

Chancellor Carnesale responded generously and commissioned the creation of the Campus Sustainability Committee. To that committee were appointed several faculty and administrators from a variety of campus departments, including student affairs, capital programs, general services, communications, and the chancellor's office, along with two graduate and two undergraduate student representatives. . Two co-chairs were appointed to the committee, Mary Nichols, then Director of UCLA's Institute of the Environment, and Tova Lelah, Campus Environmental Planner.

Since the first meeting in April 2005, the Committee has established three sub-Committees; Academics,  Operations, and  Communications.  We also have a Gradaute Student Researcher position to help develop the website, to outreach to the campus, and to provide support for existing efforts.

The mission of the UCLA Sustainability Committee is to create a culture of sustainability at UCLA in which the entire UCLA community is aware of, engaged in, and committed to advancing sustainability through education, research, operations, and community service activities.

 

 

Date Posted: 1/1/2008