By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Grant brings total funding for UCLA Engineering program to $10.5 million By Wileen Wong Kromhout and Matthew Chin A team of researchers at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has been awarded...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA Engineering and Health Sciences collaborate on data-driven medicine Medical teams are often put in the position of making treatment decisions without much in the way of solid data. They may see a patient once every...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout FINDINGS: The development of new electronic applications like thin-film solar panels, wearable displays and non-invasive biomedical devices, which require significant deformation to copy body...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin Since the early 1990s, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has been used to give insight to the inner workings of the brain. This powerful tool has been used in numerous research studies, starting...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin and Wileen Wong Kromhout From atomic crystals to spiral galaxies, self-assembly is ubiquitous in nature. In biological processes, self-assembly at the molecular level is particularly prevalent....
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]The Smart Grid Energy Research Center (SMERC) held a kickoff event last month celebrating the start of new research programs and partnerships in making a smart electrical grid into a reality. The center, based at the UCLA...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA Engineering has been awarded a $100,000 Grand Challenges Grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for innovative global health research based on an idea proposed by Peter Lillehoj, a Ph.D. student in...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Mike Rodewald A team of UCLA chemists and engineers has developed a new method for coating large surfaces with nanofiber thin films that are both transparent and electrically conductive. Their method involves the...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Moiré patterns are spatial superstructures formed by overlaying two planar lattices. Observed for a long time as watered effects made by overlaying fine silk sheets, moiré patterns could appear at much lower length scales...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Project utilizes cell phones, Web technology to foster student engagement By Shaena Engle and Wileen Wong Kromhout UCLA has been awarded $12.5 million from the National Science Foundation to help advance new and innovative...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]A team of researchers, led by Suneel Kodambaka, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, have found that the electronic properties of graphene, a one-atom-thick sheet of graphite, depend on its...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science $6 million to support the construction...