By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, an assistant professor of computer science at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been named a recipient of the Presidential Early Career...
Year: 2012
UCLA Researchers Create Highly Transparent Solar Cells for Windows that Generate Electricity
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Jennifer Marcus UCLA researchers have developed a new transparent solar cell that is an advance toward giving windows in homes and other buildings the ability to generate electricity while still allowing people to see...
UCLA Bioengineers Find Objects Moving in Stream Create Constructive Wakes
By UCLA Samueli NewsroomFindings have implications for cooling microelectronics, speeding chemical reactions By Matthew Chin and Wileen Wong Kromhout From driftwood traveling down a river to a blood cell flowing through your artery,...
Henry Samueli Wins 2012 Marconi Prize
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Pioneered development and commercialization of broadband circuits Henry Samueli, co-founder and CTO of Broadcom Corporation, and a distinguished alumnus of UCLA, has won the prestigious 2012 Marconi Society Prize and...
In Memoriam: Bertram Bussell
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Bertram Bussell, professor emeritus of computer science and one of the founding members of Computer Science Department, died Saturday, July 7, 2012. He was 88. Bussell was born in New York City and was educated at New York...
In Memoriam: Julius Glater
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Julius Glater, a UCLA adjunct emeritus professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering who was instrumental in developing water desalination technologies, died of age-related causes on Wednesday, June 6, 2012. He was...
UCLA Study to Determine if Copper Surfaces Can Reduce Hospital-Acquired Infections
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]$2.5 million grant to fund clinical trial at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center By Rachel Champeau Hospital-acquired infections are a huge public health burden, and hospital environments play a key role in harboring...
UCLA Bioengineers Force Single Cancer Cells to Produce up to Five Daughter Cells
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Findings could aid researchers in understanding progression of disease By Matthew Chin and Wileen Wong Kromhout It's well known in conventional biology that during the process of mammalian cell division, or mitosis, a...
World’s Fastest Camera, Created by UCLA Engineers, Used to Detect Rogue Cancer Cells
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout The ability to distinguish and isolate rare cells from among a large population of assorted cells has become increasingly important for the early detection of disease and for monitoring disease...
UCLA Tapped as Partner in White House’s New Ultra-fast Broadband Network Initiative
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Campus uniquely poised to provide networked data solutions that benefit society By Wileen Wong Kromhout and Claudia Luther UCLA computer scientists at the vanguard of the broadband revolution will soon be lending their...
UCLA-led Research Team Develops World’s Most Powerful Nanoscale Microwave Oscillators
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]by Matthew Chin and Wileen Wong Kromhout A team of UCLA researchers has created the most powerful high-performance nanoscale microwave oscillators in the world, a development that could lead to cheaper, more...
UCLA’s Yi Tang receives Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award from EPA
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]by Wileen Wong Kromhout Yi Tang, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science and a professor of chemistry and biochemistry in the UCLA Division...