By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Iris Cong, a junior studying computer science at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been named a 2016 Goldwater Scholar by the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education...
Year: 2016
Students, Alumni Named 2016 NSF Graduate Research Fellows
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Four UCLA Engineering students and five alumni now at other institutions have received the prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation for 2016. The recipients include current graduate...
Internet Research Incubator offers UCLA undergraduates $15,000 prizes
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Calling all UCLA undergraduates: the Internet Research Incubator offers you a year-long research opportunity and $15,000. The newly established Internet Research Incubator will provide up to 12 UCLA undergraduate students...
Researchers develop new drug combination technique to improve TB treatment
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Researchers from UCLA and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have made an important step toward a substantially faster and more effective treatment for tuberculosis, which infects some 10 million people and causes 1.5 million...
Researchers develop open-source program for analyzing thyroid health
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA researchers have developed a software program that simulates the response of the human thyroid hormone regulation system to a variety of treatments and diseases. The open-source program, Thyrosim, can be used by...
NSF Grants CAREER Award to Three UCLA Engineering Faculty
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Three assistant professors at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science received CAREER Awards in 2016 from the National Science Foundation. The award is the agency’s highest honor for faculty...
Ancient human relative interbred with ancestors of modern humans as recently as 50,000 years ago
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA–Harvard study finds modern humans have more Denisovan DNA than earlier models showed A new study by scientists at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science and Harvard Medical School offers...
Cohen, Sustainable LA at White House Water Summit on March 22
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]The Sustainable L.A. Grand Challenge and UCLA Engineering Professor Yoram Cohen, a leader in desalination technologies and smart water systems, will take part in the White House Water Summit on Tuesday, March 22. Held in...
UCLA to play role in developing shape-shifting wings for aircraft
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]An international team of engineers and biologists will gain unprecedented insights into how birds fly so efficiently in order to design unmanned aircraft with shapeshifting wings. These planes may prove to be lighter,...
Grad program ranked 8th among public schools by U.S. News
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science’s graduate program was ranked eighth among public universities and 14th overall in the 2017 U.S. News and World Report rankings released Wednesday. The...
Engineer wins 2016 UCLA Grad Slam, will represent campus at UC-wide competition
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Aerospace engineering graduate student Gary Li won first place Thursday, March 3, at UCLA Grad Slam, a campus-wide competition where graduate students give three-minute presentations on their research. Li, who bested...
Chemical Engineering Grad Earns Top Thesis Honor for Water Monitoring Technology
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Sirikarn Surawanvifit, who earned her PhD in Chemical Engineering from UCLA in 2015 and her master’s in 2011, has won the award for best doctoral dissertation from the American Water Works Association. Surawanvifit’s...