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Hammer Museum Screening: Human Flow, and Q&A with Ai Weiwei

Hammer Museum

SCREENINGS Human Flow, and Q&A with Ai Weiwei THURSDAY JAN 4, 2018 6:30PM  This epic film by renowned artist Ai Weiwei is a detailed and heartbreaking exploration of the global refugee crisis. Captured over the course of a year in 23 countries, the film follows a chain of urgent stories that stretches through Afghanistan, Greece, Iraq, Kenya,...

Hammer Museum Screening: An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, and Q&A with Al Gore

Hammer Museum

An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, and Q&A with Al Gore SUNDAY JAN 7, 2018 7:30PM  A decade after An Inconvenient Truth brought climate change to the fore of pop culture, Vice President Al Gore continues his fight to build a global network of advocates and influence international policy. Capturing moments both private and public, funny and poignant, this...

BruinTech Monthly Brown Bag: Search for the Super Battery

Math Sciences Virtualization Portal 5628 Math Sciences 520 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Join us for our first Brown Bag of 2018! Meet Maher El-Kady, Postdoctoral Research Associate from UCLA's Kaner Lab and Chief Technology Officer of Nanotech Energy. He will discuss a smart city utilizing renewable energy sources such as solar and wind to produce electricity, an energy that is stored in batteries or hydrogen to run eco-friendly cars, consumer electronics, etc....

Collective Impact 2018: Share Your Truth, Series #1

Buro Happold Engineering 800 Wilshire Blvd, 16th Floor, Los Angeles, CA

Join us as we continue our Collective Impact speaker series in 2018. We’re tackling subjects from the climate crisis, resilience, health and wellness, diversity and inclusion, to equity, economy and...

The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity – Luskin Center for Innovation Event

Luskin School of Public Affairs, room 2355 UCLA

Reception, Presentation, Panel Discussion, Author Q&A, and Book Signing. Author and main speaker: Sandra Postel Moderator: Mark Gold, UCLA Panelists: Rita Kampalath, Los Angeles County Chief Sustainability Office; Omar Moghaddam, GeoEnvironment Technologies, Advantek International About the book: We have disrupted the natural water cycle for centuries in an effort to control water for our own prosperity. Yet every...

Good Food Institute – Plant based meat

Bunche Hall 3157 http://maps.ucla.edu/campus/?locid=130

  ***Come join us and try the highly-acclaimed ahimi--a raw "tuna" made completely from plants!*** Are you interested in learning about new developments in cheap, ethical ways to feed our growing population? It's time to talk about food. Veg Bruins and E3 are very excited to host Aylon Steinhart of The Good Food Institute to...