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...
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Confirming Einstein: Q&A with LIGO Scientist and EE Alum Richard Savage
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Earlier this month, researchers at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) announced they had detected gravitational waves, confirming a prediction by Albert Einstein in his theory of general...
Chen Receives NSF CAREER Award
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Grant will support research on engineering tumor-specific T cells for cancer immunotherapy Yvonne Chen, an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and...
Three Faculty Win PECASE: Highest Honor for Young Researchers in U.S.
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Three members of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science faculty are among 105 young researchers from across the country who will receive the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and...
UCLA Engineering Embarks on Major Expansion
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science will increase its faculty roster and student body by more than 20 percent in the next five to seven years, an aggressive expansion that will allow the school...
UCLA Engineering honors top alumni, teachers, students at 2016 awards dinner
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom Several accomplished alumni, teachers and students were honored Feb. 5 at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science’s 2016 Awards Dinner.Structural engineering innovator Robert...
Meka Receives NSF CAREER Award
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Raghu Meka, an assistant professor of computer science at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation, the agency’s highest honor for...
Researchers lead $6.1M NIH center on mobile health for pediatric patients
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Researchers from UCLA and USC have received a $6.1 million grant from the National Institutes for Health to study and develop wireless sensing and analytical devices that can predict – and help mitigate or prevent – the...
Yang Yang named one of ‘World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds’
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Yang Yang, the Carol and Lawrence E. Tannas, Jr., Chair in Engineering and a professor of materials science and engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been cited by Thomson...
UCLA Engineering Dean Announces Major Expansion Plan
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Bill Kisliuk Jayathi Murthy, the new dean of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has proposed a major expansion plan aimed at strengthening the school and preparing more students to power...
UCLA online engineering program again ranked No. 1 by U.S. News
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]The online master’s degree program at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has been named the nation’s best by U.S. News and World Report for the second consecutive year. The Master of Science...
Karagozian Named Interim Vice Chancellor for Research
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Ann Karagozian, a longtime professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and former chair of the UCLA Academic Senate, has been named interim vice chancellor for research. Karagozian, who joined the faculty in 1982,...