By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Julius Glater, a UCLA adjunct emeritus professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering who was instrumental in developing water desalination technologies, died of age-related causes on Wednesday, June 6, 2012. He was...
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UCLA Study to Determine if Copper Surfaces Can Reduce Hospital-Acquired Infections
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]$2.5 million grant to fund clinical trial at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center By Rachel Champeau Hospital-acquired infections are a huge public health burden, and hospital environments play a key role in harboring...
UCLA Bioengineers Force Single Cancer Cells to Produce up to Five Daughter Cells
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Findings could aid researchers in understanding progression of disease By Matthew Chin and Wileen Wong Kromhout It's well known in conventional biology that during the process of mammalian cell division, or mitosis, a...
World’s Fastest Camera, Created by UCLA Engineers, Used to Detect Rogue Cancer Cells
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout The ability to distinguish and isolate rare cells from among a large population of assorted cells has become increasingly important for the early detection of disease and for monitoring disease...
UCLA Tapped as Partner in White House’s New Ultra-fast Broadband Network Initiative
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Campus uniquely poised to provide networked data solutions that benefit society By Wileen Wong Kromhout and Claudia Luther UCLA computer scientists at the vanguard of the broadband revolution will soon be lending their...
UCLA-led Research Team Develops World’s Most Powerful Nanoscale Microwave Oscillators
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]by Matthew Chin and Wileen Wong Kromhout A team of UCLA researchers has created the most powerful high-performance nanoscale microwave oscillators in the world, a development that could lead to cheaper, more...
UCLA’s Yi Tang receives Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award from EPA
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]by Wileen Wong Kromhout Yi Tang, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science and a professor of chemistry and biochemistry in the UCLA Division...
UCLA Grad Student Wins First Place at Broadcom Foundation University Research Competition
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA graduate student Adrian Tang earned first place and $10,000 at the inaugural Broadcom Foundation University Research Competition sponsored by Broadcom Foundation, a non-profit organization funded by Broadcom...
Two Engineering Post-Docs Receive Chancellor’s Award
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Chancellor’s Award for Postdoctoral Research Winners Two postdoctoral scholars at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science were among six UCLA winners of the 2012 Chancellor’s Award for Postdoctoral...
Rice, UCLA Slash Energy Needs for Next-Generation Memory
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Data-encoding method is first to take advantage of phase-change memory's asymmetric physics HOUSTON -- (June 7, 2012) -- Researchers from Rice University and UCLA unveiled a new data-encoding scheme this week that slashes...
UCLA Engineering-led Team Gets $1M Grant to Study Effect of Quakes on Modern Structures
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin and Wileen Wong Kromhout The unexpectedly poor performance of modern buildings during recent major earthquakes has demonstrated that revisions to design practices are needed to ensure that future...
President and CEO of The Aerospace Corporation to speak at UCLA Engineering Commencement
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Dr. Wanda M. Austin is internationally recognized for work in satellite and payload system acquisition, systems engineering and systems simulation By Wileen Wong Kromhout The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and...