Mia Irvin-Pollard was in seventh grade when she discovered her love for science after accepting a challenge from her father to fix a broken oven handle all by herself.
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First-Gen Latino Doctoral Student Aims to Make an Impact in STEM
Growing up in San Bernardino, California, in a working-class immigrant family, Andrew Ramirez didn’t know what engineers were
Physical Oceanographer Joins UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering Department
Isabella Arzeno Soltero has joined the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering July 1 as an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering.
UCLA Engineering Welcomes Five New Computer Science Faculty Members
The UCLA Samueli School of Engineering has appointed five faculty members with various experiences in promoting equity, diversity and inclusion to its Computer Science Department.
UCLA Samueli Commemorates Class of 2023 Bruin Engineers in Two Ceremonies
More than 1,700 engineering and computer science students of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science Class of 2023 gathered to celebrate their milestone
Fulfilling a Family Tradition but Blazing Her Own Trail
If you had to describe Morolake Omoya’s UCLA journey in just two words, you might choose “risks” and “firsts.”
Computer Science Student Aims to Break Bamboo Ceiling for Asian Americans
Just like the Chinese laundry stereotype persists, so are many Filipinos who continue to be typeset as nurses or physician assistants
Arab Student Club President Builds Community through Clubs, Research
Growing up in Rabat, Morocco, Soulaïmane Bentaleb spoke French and Arabic at home. He found himself surrounded by an unfamiliar language and culture when he first
UCLA Engineering Doctoral Student Aims to Bring Accessible Speech Technology to All
The way people talk is influenced by where they grew up, the school they attended, their cultural background and the language spoken at home among other things.
It Takes a Village: Bruin Engineer Shares Hopeful Vision for Diversity in STEM
When Krystal Cunningham Ph.D.’19 first moved to Los Angeles from Jamaica as a teenager, she found it strange that there were community and scholarship programs specifically geared toward minorities.
UCLA Engineers Receive NSF Grant to Research Interaction-Powered Smart Environment Automation
Each year, a group of faculty and staff at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering takes part in a judging panel to select student organization recipients for the
Society of Latinx Engineers and Scientists President Kelly Espino on Her UCLA Journey
Long before she became a Bruin engineer, Kelly Espino said she knew what she had to do to help fulfill the dreams of her immigrant parents











