By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]New Research and Work Space, Loaded With Sensors, Is Itself an Ongoing Experiment By M. Abraham Tucked into a courtyard filled with trees and lush plantings adjacent to UCLA Engineering’s Boelter Hall, a new 6,000 square...
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UCLA Engineering Researcher Uses Plant Virus to Create Memory Chip
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Giving your digital camera a virus may not sound very smart, but a memory chip that incorporates millions of viruses may just be the fastest thing around. By M. Abraham **Story excerpted from a New Scientist Tech print...
UCLA Engineering Launches Online Master’s Degree Program
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Working Engineers and Computer Scientists Offered Flexible New Education Option for Enhancing Skills, Keeping Abreast of Cutting-edge Technologies By M. Abraham Online learning has never been more accessible, and a new...
UCLA Engineering’s Eddie Kohler Chosen as One of the Top Innovators Under the Age of 35 by MIT’s Technology Review
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Winners to be featured at 2006 Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT By M. Abraham Eddie Kohler, assistant professor of computer science at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science and an...
UCLA Engineering Adds Talented New Faculty
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]This fall, a number of talented individuals will join our faculty, coming to UCLA from institutions across the country The strength of any great engineering program lies in its people. The educators and researchers at the...
What’s Shaking? UCLA Engineers Demolish Full-Scale Bridge Foundation Near LAX for Earthquake Safety Research
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]The collapse of a portion of the upper deck of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge following the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989 was a dramatic illustration of the critical need for seismic safety on bridges across...
UCLA Engineering’s Hydrogen Research ConsortiumPartners With L.A. City Government to Host Forum on Conversion of Waste Into Renewable Energy
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]The Hydrogen Engineering Research Consortium (HERC) at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science partnered with the Los Angeles Mayor’s office as well as a broad spectrum of Los Angeles city offices...
New Department Chairs Named for Bioengineering and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Professors Timothy Deming and Adrienne Lavine were appointed as chairs of the Departments of Bioengineering and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, respectively, effective July 1, 2006 By Marlys Amundson "We are...
UCLA Researchers Transform Stem Cells Found in Human Fat Into Smooth Muscle Cells
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Discovery Impacts Tissue Engineering for Intestine, Bladder and Vascular Systems By M. Abraham Researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA...
Researchers at UCLA Engineering Announce Breakthrough in Silicon Photonics Devices
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Turning the tables on chip power consumption: new silicon optical amplifiers generate electrical power by harvesting energy By M. Abraham Building on a series of recent breakthroughs in silicon photonics, researchers at...
Google’s Vinton G. Cerf Advises UCLA Engineering Grads: “Don’t Be Afraid of Failure”
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Nearly 6,500 guests and students from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science gathered at Pauley Pavilion in Westwood Saturday, June 17, to hear Internet pioneer and Google vice president Vinton G....
Restoring a Medieval Mosaic With ‘Sol’
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Working diligently to remove a gray salt layer from a million individual pieces of glass, three Czech conservators and a UCLA Engineering professor have been restoring a renowned mosaic in central Europe. By M. Abraham...