By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin UCLA chemical engineering researchers have created a new synthetic metabolic pathway for breaking down glucose that could lead to a 50 percent increase in the production of biofuels. The new pathway is...
Year: 2013
Researchers Develop New Type of Fluorescent Camera for Blood Diagnostics, Brain Mapping
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Inspired by wireless technology, FIRE speeds up biological imaging process By Matthew Chin Fluorescence imaging is the most widely used method for analyzing the molecular composition of biological specimens. Target...
UCLA Engineering Team Lands Major Air Force Grant to Study Plasma Surfaces
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin What happens at tiny scales when an electrically charged hot gas hits new advanced materials? An interdisciplinary team of UCLA Engineers has won an $890,000 grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific...
UCLA Engineers Develop a Stretchable, Foldable Transparent Electronic Display
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin Imagine an electronic display nearly as clear as a window, or a curtain that illuminates a room, or a smartphone screen that doubles in size, stretching like rubber. Now imagine all of these being made from...
UC Regents Approve Design Funds for Phase II of New UCLA Engineering Building
By UCLA Samueli NewsroomBy Bill Kisliuk The UC Regents on Wednesday approved a UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science request to go forward with the design for Phase II of Engineering VI, the school’s...
Photonics firm launched by UCLA Engineering’s Ozcan a finalist in Nokia Sensing XChallenge contest
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Bill Kisliuk A technology firm founded by UCLA Engineering Professor Aydogan Ozcan and his students has made it to the final round of a $2.25 million international competition for companies improving healthcare by...
Ph.D. researcher named Howard Hughes fellow
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Alon Greenbaum, a Ph.D. student at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been named an International Student Research Fellow by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Greenbaum is one of 42...
UCLA Researchers Invent Portable Device, Smartphone App for Common Kidney Test
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Bill Kisliuk A lightweight and field-portable device invented at UCLA that conducts kidney tests and transmits data through a smartphone attachment may significantly reduce the need for frequent office visits by people...
Faculty Receive ASME Heat Transfer 75th Anniversary Medal
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science faculty members Ivan Catton and Vijay K. Dhir received the 75th Anniversary Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Heat Transfer Division. They...
In Memoriam: UCLA Engineering Professor Emeritus Andrew F. Charwat, 1925-2013
By UCLA Samueli NewsroomAndrew F. Charwat, a UCLA professor emeritus of mechanical and aerospace engineering who began his academic career with the school in 1955, died July 5, 2013. He was 88.Charwat received his M.E. from Stevens...
Students’ Assignment: Help Fijians Get Clean Drinking Water
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Cynthia Lee Originally published in UCLA Today on Aug. 13, 2013 Living among farm animals and fields planted with root crops and sugar cane, the rural residents of Vanua Levu and Taveuni, two islands in Fiji, get their...
UCLA Researchers Double Efficiency of Novel Solar Cell
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Device could coat windows, smartphone screens with energy-harvesting material By Bill Kisliuk Nearly doubling the efficiency of a breakthrough photovoltaic cell they created last year, UCLA researchers have developed a...