By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA-led team creates 'diet control' technique that could have broad applications in manufacturing and medicine Matthew Chin Growth is a ubiquitous phenomenon in plants and animals. But it also occurs naturally in...
Year: 2014
Magnetic Topological Insulators Developed at UCLA are 1,000 Times More Energy-Efficient for Switching
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin Topological insulators are an emerging class of materials that act as both insulators and conductors, and could potentially be used in smartphones, computers and other electronic devices. A research team at...
UCLA Racing | Baja SAE Team Takes Honors in El Paso
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Members of the UCLA Racing | Baja SAE team drove non-stop to El Paso, Texas, this month and returned home with several first-place awards and an overall fifth-place finish in a Society of Automotive Engineers’ Collegiate...
UCLA Artificial Intelligence Pioneer Judea Pearl Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin Judea Pearl, professor of computer science at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors that can be...
UCLA Artificial Intelligence Pioneer Judea Pearl Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin Judea Pearl, professor of computer science at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors that can be...
Computer Science Professor Terzopoulos Named a Royal Academy Fellow
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Bill Kisliuk Demetri Terzopoulos, Distinguished Professor and Chancellor’s Professor of Computer Science at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been elected a 2014 fellow of the...
Computer Science Professor Terzopoulos Named a Royal Academy Fellow
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Bill Kisliuk Demetri Terzopoulos, Distinguished Professor and Chancellor’s Professor of Computer Science at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been elected a 2014 fellow of the...
UCLA Researchers Develop Inexpensive, High-Mobility Semiconductors for LCD and OLED Screens
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Device could boost image quality for phones, computers and TVs By Bill Kisliuk A device created by UCLA researchers could lead to a significant leap in the quality of images on smartphones, computer displays, TVs and...
Grad Student Named C200 Scholar
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Kristine Mayle, a Ph.D. student in bioengineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, recently was named a Larraine Segil C200 Scholar. The honor, from the Committee of 200 recognizes...
In Latest Generation of Tiny Biosensors, Size Isn’t Everything
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA researchers overturn conventional wisdom on nanowire-based diagnostic devices By Bill Kisliuk When it comes to nanomedicine, smaller is — surprisingly — not always better. UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and...
Grad SWE Debuts at UCLA Engineering
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]This school year, the UCLA chapter of the Society of Women Engineers started a new division. Geared toward women graduate students in engineering, UCLA GradSWE (gradswe.seas.ucla.edu) has already offered a full range of...
In Memoriam: Marjorie Crump, UCLA Alumna and Longtime Supporter, 89
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Bill Kisliuk Marjorie Eloise Lund Crump, who did significant work in public service and entrepreneurship and who, together with her husband Ralph, was a major supporter of UCLA, died of natural causes on April 1 at her...