Bharat Venkat’s Research Featured in NBC4 Story: “Study Tracks Hot Temperatures Inside LA Food Trucks”
The UCLA Heat Lab, directed by ISG faculty Bharat Venkat, is featured in a story on NBC4 for their research on LA food trucks.
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Bharat Venkat’s Book, At the Limits of Cure (2021) co-Awarded this Year’s Edie Turner Book Prize in Ethnographic Writing
Congratulations to ISG Faculty, Bharat Venkat! His book, At the Limits of Cure (2021) was co-awarded the 2023 Edie Turner Book Prize in Ethnographic Writing.
Terence Keel, Featured in Washington Post Article: Study of Md. in-Custody Deaths Finds Many Occur in First 10 Days in Jail
The study analyzed 180 in-custody deaths in 10 Maryland detention centers and found that about half of those people died within the first 10 days of incarceration.
Bharat Venkat’s Heat Lab Featured in LA Times Op-ed: “L.A. loves food trucks. With more heat waves, they can be dangerous for people working in them”
July delivered an irrefutable argument about the extent of climate change: A recent analysis suggests that 81% of the Earth’s population lives in places that experienced extreme heat attributable to global warming sometime during the month. Extreme heat is not just uncomfortable; it can be debilitating, and even deadly.
Bharat Venkat, Interviewed on KCRW, “Climate change means hotter summers. Here’s how to prepare”
The National Weather Service has issued an excessive heat warning for many parts of the U.S. this week. Parts of LA, like the San Fernando Valley, are headed for triple-digit temperatures this weekend. Heat negatively affects some people more than others — UCLA Heat Lab Director Bharat Venkat looks at it as thermal inequality.
Bharat Venkat, Featured in AP Article, “Cities have long made plans for extreme heat. Are they enough in a warming world?”
Heat preparedness has generally improved over the years as forecasting has become more accurate, and as meteorologists, journalists and government officials have focused on spreading the word of upcoming danger. Chicago, for example, has expanded its emergency text and email notification system and identified its most vulnerable residents for outreach.