By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout For decades, laboratory mice have been widely used in research aimed at understanding which genes are involved in various illnesses. But actual variations in past gene sequences of mice were...
Year: 2011
Bioengineering Professor Receives NIH Director’s New Innovator Award
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin Andrea M. Kasko, assistant professor of bioengineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has received a 2011 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award from the National...
Rutgers, UCLA Awarded $2 Million To Develop ‘Intelligent’ Technology That Reduces Urban Traffic Congestion, Air Pollution
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Three-year study funded by National Science Foundation aims to integrate today’s largely disconnected traffic management systems The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a grant worth nearly $2 million to Rutgers...
UCLA Engineering Faculty Highlighted in Article on New UC Discovery “Proof of Concept” Grants
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Proving a concept and leaping the `valley of death` By Wallace Ravven An instrument to quickly detect traumatic brain injury, a vaccine to save unborn calves from a deadly bacteria and a technology to clean up grimy water...
Snow Days: Hydrology of Mountain Watersheds Course Takes Classroom into the Field
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin Southern California imports between 80 to 90 percent of its water from outside the metropolitan region. And much of it comes from the Sierra Nevada. So to learn right at the source, UCLA students in the...
Di Carlo Receives DARPA Young Faculty Award
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Dino Di Carlo, an assistant professor of bioengineering, was awarded a Young Faculty Award (YFA) from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The goal of the DARPA YFA program is to identify and engage...
UC-Developed Technology Saving Consumers Trillions of Watt-Hours, Millions of Dollars
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]A University of California technology that significantly reduces the amount of energy wasted by chips in computers, mobile phones and other electronic devices has recently passed the trillion watt-hour milestone in energy...
Accessible and Affordable Care at Heart of Healthcare Technology Grants
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Winners receive up to $100K to commercialize innovations Five teams of scientists from multiple campuses of the University of California and a Southern California hospital have been awarded up to $100,000 each to...
Scientists Shake Fragile Delta Levee in Hope of Averting Statewide Catastrophe
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Judy Lin What happened to the levees of New Orleans in 2005 — massive collapses during Hurricane Katrina, leaving most of the city underwater — could happen to fragile levees near Sacramento that protect supplies of...
UCLA’s Top Teachers: Helping Students Find Treasures Locked in an Equation
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Judy Lin The UCLA Academic Senate has awarded UCLA’s highest teaching prize to six Academic Senate members. In an occasional series of stories that will run throughout the summer, UCLA Today will profile these winners...
Nano Gold Rush: Researchers Use Tiny Gold Particles to Boost Organic Solar Cell Efficiency
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Plasmonic technique helps enhance power conversion by up to 20 percent By Jennifer Marcus In the world of solar energy, organic photovoltaic solar cells have a wide range of potential applications, but they are still...
Phone Losing Charge? Technology Created by UCLA Engineers Allows LCDs to Recycle Energy
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]With photovoltaic polarizers, devices could be powered by sunlight, own backlight By Matthew Chin and Wileen Wong Kromhout We've all worried about the charge on our smartphone or laptop running down when we have no access...