Your Gift Matters
Gifts to Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences contribute to the department’s history of excellence and the global impact of research by our students and faculty.
Become a contributor
Your support of AOS can be focused within any of the following areas:
- Strengthening our new Climate Science major
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Graduate fellowships
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Undergraduate research support
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Capital improvements including support for common department computing, data storage, and research infrastructure
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Endowed faculty chair
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Endowed lectures
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Post-doctoral fellowship
Chair's Discretionary Fund
The department's most flexible donor fund is used for immediately, one-time needs. These may include visiting lecturers and scholars, graduate recruitment, conferences, seminar support, or equipment for research and instruction.
Endowments
Endowments providing a lasting legacy of support for AOS and the critical scientific discovery it is making towards the understanding of our environment. From these investments, awards are given to outstanding graduate students for service and positive contributions to the departmental community, achievement in academics and teaching, graduate recruitment, conference travel, and more. Endowed faculty chairs are also critical to retaining the best mentors and educators within our department.
To read about students who have benefitted from support enabled through endowments, click here.
Special Programs
The department is enriched by unique gifts targeting a specific need. One example is our annual Michio Yanai Lecture, established in memory of the former AOS professor and distinguished researcher in tropical meteorology. It brings leading scholars to campus each spring for meeting with students and faculty as well as a public lecture on significant climate research. Click here for information about the fifth annual Michio Yanai Lecture, which takes place each May.
Online donations made be made by clicking here or by reaching out to Brooke Sanders in the UCLA College Development Office, (310) 794-9045 or bsanders@support.ucla.edu.
Thank you for contributing to generations of impactful science within the Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences.