By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Jennifer Marcus Since the invention of liquid crystal displays in the mid-1960s, display electronics have undergone rapid transformation. Recently developed organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) have shown several...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has announced the establishment of the Ronald and Valerie Sugar Chair in Engineering, made possible by a $1 million gift from UCLA alumni Ronald D. and...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Jennifer Marcus As the market for liquid crystal displays and other electronics continues to drive up the price of indium — the material used to make the indium tin oxide (ITO) transparent electrodes in these devices —...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Collegiate inventors honored by leading U.S. organizations for pioneering science and technology advances Invent Now, a nonprofit organization that recognizes and encourages invention, announced the first prize winners of...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]The first ARPANET host-host connection through BBN systems marked its 42nd anniversary last Saturday, Oct. 30. Technobabble translation: In 1969, a UCLA team sent the very first message ever on the Internet — the...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has received an additional $500,000 from engineering alumnus Mukund Padmanabhan to establish the 2011 Guru Krupa Foundation Fellowship in Electrical...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]The National Science Foundation (NSF) and Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) have issued new joint awards to reduce pesticide pollution and promote biofuel. In particular, James Liao of the UCLA Henry Samueli School...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout Researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have been awarded $4.5 million over four years by the U.S. Department of Defense to strengthen carbon nanotube yarns...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]The Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA), the voice of the global semiconductor industry, announced the 2011 winner of the Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award: industry pioneer and co-founder of Broadcom...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button] By Wileen Wong Kromhout James C. Liao, the Chancellor's Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been named the holder of the Ralph M....
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, assistant professor of computer science at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been named the holder of the Symantec Term Chair in Computer Science. The chair was...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has named Dino Di Carlo, assistant professor of bioengineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, a 2011 recipient of a Packard Fellowship for...