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...
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Engineering Professor Receives NIH Director’s Pioneer Award
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)....
UCLA Engineering Team Receives IARPA Funding to Improve Information Utility
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...
Times Higher Education ranks UCLA 7th in the World for Engineering and Technology
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...
New Faculty Join UCLA Engineering
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....
UCLA Engineering Researchers Develop New Method for Detection of Specific DNA Sequences
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...
Professor Named One of World’s Most Brilliant Innovators by Popular Science
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin Popular Science magazine has named Aydogan Ozcan, an associate professor of electrical engineering and bioengineering at UCLA, one of the world's "Brilliant 10" scientists in its October 2012 issue. The...
Bioengineering Students take the Q-Path to Success
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]The five-member team takes first place in NIH competition. Prize includes $10,000. By Matthew Chin It started out as an undergraduate senior project. It ended up an award-winning design for a cancer diagnostic test. A team...
New UCLA Engineering Research Center to Revolutionize Nanoscale Electromagnetic Devices
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]The NSF-funded multimillion-dollar program, based on a new approach to electronics, could lead to tiny devices once considered fantasy by Matthew Chin A multidisciplinary team of researchers from UCLA and other...
UCLA Engineering professor Receives Government’s Highest Honor for Young Engineers, Scientists
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, an assistant professor of computer science at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been named a recipient of the Presidential Early Career...
UCLA Researchers Create Highly Transparent Solar Cells for Windows that Generate Electricity
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Jennifer Marcus UCLA researchers have developed a new transparent solar cell that is an advance toward giving windows in homes and other buildings the ability to generate electricity while still allowing people to see...
UCLA Bioengineers Find Objects Moving in Stream Create Constructive Wakes
By UCLA Samueli NewsroomFindings have implications for cooling microelectronics, speeding chemical reactions By Matthew Chin and Wileen Wong Kromhout From driftwood traveling down a river to a blood cell flowing through your artery,...