UCLA’s Kevin Njabo selected to give TEDGlobal talk
Two months ago, the professor was named UCLA Institute of Environment and Sustainability’s 2017 Pritzker Fellow. Now he’s preparing to take stage in front of a worldwide audience. Today, TEDGlobal…
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Pritzker Fellow Kevin Njabo knows how to make the impossible happen
Kevin Njabo, director of Africa Programs for both the Center for Tropical Research (CTR) and Congo Basin Institute, has been awarded the 2017 IoES Pritzker Environment and Sustainability Education Fellowship. The annual fellowship is made possible through an endowment from the Anthony and Jeanne Pritzker Family Foundation and recognizes instructors for their contributions to academic programs.
Students re-establish vital foothold for research deep in African rainforest
UCLA's Congo Basin Institute led a team of UCLA and Cameroonian students into a rain forest in central Africa to reopen a field station in a jungle with a thriving ecosystem with birds, elephants and monkeys.
Eight scientific visions for a thriving planet
At Earth Now: Earth 2050, UCLA's top environmental thinkers gave short talks on the paths we must take to have a sustainable planet in decades to come.
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Taylor Guitars donates $400,000 toward ebony conservation and restoration in Cameroon
Bob Taylor, a world-renowned guitar maker of Taylor Guitars, donated $400,000 in support of ebony conservation research and restoration efforts, which will be coordinated by CTR’s Thomas Smith, in Cameroon.
