Professor Ertugrul Taciroglu has been appointed chair of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering.

Veteran auto industry executive Freeman Shen MS ’94 discussed the state of China’s car industry and its challenges with a few hundred UCLA students.

For batteries to fit into tinier electronic devices without compromising performance they need “to be built like a skyscraper in New York instead of a ranch house in California,” says Bruce Dunn.