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Nanoscale transport: 3Qs with Tim Fisher

Nanoscale transport: 3Qs with Tim Fisher

Professor Tim Fisher leads the Nanoscale Transport Research Group, which looks at transport processes by electrons, phonons, photons, and fluids, with an eye toward addressing problems in aerospace, micro- and nanoelectronics, and sensor systems.

Lihua Jin: Toward stretchable phones and squishy robots

Lihua Jin: Toward stretchable phones and squishy robots

By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button] Lihua Jin’s work in soft materials engineering is helping pave the way for these kinds of advances In the Disney animated film “Big Hero 6,” the character Baymax is a loveable, squishy robot that resembles the Michelin...

Four faculty members elected to the National Academy of Inventors

Four faculty members elected to the National Academy of Inventors

By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button] Photo, clockwise from top left: Subramanian Iyer, Henry Samueli, Alan N. Willson, Jr., and Eli Yablonovitch. Four faculty members affiliated with the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have been...

Spearrin receives NSF CAREER Award for combustion research

Spearrin receives NSF CAREER Award for combustion research

By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button] Applications include next-generation ultra-clean and efficient engines Mitchell Spearrin, an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science,...

Q&A: Existential and catastrophic risk to humanity

Q&A: Existential and catastrophic risk to humanity

By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]In March, the B. John Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences at UCLA held the first Colloquium on Catastrophic and Existential Risk. Some 40 scholars from around the world gathered to discuss catastrophic risks facing...

Smooth Sailing with Superhydrophobic Surfaces

Smooth Sailing with Superhydrophobic Surfaces

By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Superhydrophobic surfaces with the right microscopic structures could be the key to reducing friction on marine vessels, as CJ Kim, UCLA professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, explained in a recent article in...

UCLA among the nation’s best for commercializing campus research

UCLA among the nation’s best for commercializing campus research

By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Milken Institute report notes strong positive impact on Los Angeles economy UCLA is No. 1 in the nation when it comes to the number of startup companies launched as a result of campus research, according to the rankings by...