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BEWell
Built Environment
BEWell collaborates with campus and community leaders to identify, plan, and implement best practices for a healthy built environment. Our pod aims to create clean, green campus spaces that facilitate safe and active transportation, integrate physical activity into everyday life, reduce stress, and promote social engagement. BEWell aims to raise awareness about the potential of the built environment to positively impact health, happiness, and wellbeing.
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Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden
Among the most distinguished outdoor sculpture collections in the country, featuring more than 70 modern and contemporary works set in five beautifully-landscaped acres of the UCLA campus.
Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden
A 7.5 acre public garden, outdoor classroom, and research facility on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles, California. We promote botanical knowledge by curating collections that highlight biogeography, conservation, and natural history.
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Learn Something New
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Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden
Among the most distinguished outdoor sculpture collections in the country, featuring more than 70 modern and contemporary works set in five beautifully-landscaped acres of the UCLA campus.
Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden
A 7.5 acre public garden, outdoor classroom, and research facility on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles, California. We promote botanical knowledge by curating collections that highlight biogeography, conservation, and natural history.
BEWell Leadership
Dana Cuff, PhDBEWell Pod Co-Leader; Professor, Architecture & Urban Planning; Founding Director, city LAB |
Richard Jackson MD, MPH, FAAP, HON ASLA, HON AIABEWell Pod Co-Leader; Professor Emeritus, Fielding School of Public Health |
David KarwaskiBEWell Pod Co-Leader; Senior Director, UCLA Transportation |
Yang Yang, PhDBEWell Pod Support Staff; Assistant Director of Research for CityLAB |
Past BEWell Leadership
Renée Fortier (B.A. Rice University; M.A./M.S./P.H. UCLA), Executive Director UCLA Events & Transportation
As a land grant institution, the Semel Healthy Campus Initiative Center at UCLA acknowledges the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (Los Angeles basin, So. Channel Islands).