By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin A new multidisciplinary research center established at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science aims to revolutionize semiconductor technologies by developing new nanoscale materials...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Shaily Mahendra, a UCLA assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, has received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation. The NSF CAREER award is the...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin Christian N.J. Wagner, a UCLA professor emeritus of materials science and engineering, died on Dec. 31, 2012, at his home in Palm Desert. He was 85. Wagner was internationally known for research on the...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Two UCLA Engineering professors, Panagiotis D. Christofides and Ali H. Sayed, were selected as fellows by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest general scientific society and...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin David Okrent, UCLA professor emeritus of mechanical and aerospace engineering, who made pioneering contributions in nuclear reactor design and safety, died Friday, Dec. 14. He was 90. Okrent received his...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]MeRAM is up to 1,000 times more energy-efficient than current technologies By Matthew Chin | December 14, 2012 By using electric voltage instead of a flowing electric current, researchers from UCLA's Henry Samueli School...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin Are you allergic to peanuts and worried there might be some in that cookie? Now you can find out using a rather unlikely source: your cell phone. A team of researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Yi Tang, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has received an NIH Director's Pioneer Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)....
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]A team of four UCLA electrical engineering professors -- Lara Dolecek, Danijela Cabric, Greg Pottie, and Mani Srivastava -- has received a competitive $500,000 seed contract for work with the Intelligence Advanced...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA is ranked 7th on the 2012-13 Times Higher Education World University Rankings for Engineering and Technology. The rankings, released October 4, compared universities overall, as well as across six subject areas: arts...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has recently added two new faculty members: Wentai Liu, professor of bioengineering, who joined in Winter 2012; and Wei Wang, professor of computer science....
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]by Matthew Chin FINDINGS: The detection of specific DNA sequences is central to the identification of disease-causing pathogens and genetic diseases, as well as other activities. But current detection technologies require...