By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA researchers have designed a laboratory test that uses microchip technology to predict how potentially hazardous nanomaterials could be. According to UCLA professor Huan Meng, certain engineered nanomaterials, such as...
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Werner Herzog film follows internet from its birth at UCLA
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]“Lo and Behold” examines good and bad outcomes of the communication revolution Famed director Werner Herzog’s newest film opens with a view of UCLA’s Kerckhoff Hall taken from the northern corner of the Court of Sciences....
Diagnosing gout could become easier, more cost-effective with new portable device
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Platform developed at UCLA uses computational microscopy to analyze uric acid crystals UCLA researchers have designed a portable imaging system that can diagnose gout, a condition that affects more than 8 million adults in...
Solving big data’s ‘fusion’ problem
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA, Purdue computer scientists develop technique for combining massive sets of research data As the field of “big data” has emerged as a tool for solving all sorts of scientific and societal questions, one of the main...
Materials Science Grad Student Granted Fulbright Award to Study Ancient Tombs in Cyprus
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Roxanne Radpour, a UCLA Ph.D. student in materials science and engineering, will spend the 2016-17 academic year in Cyprus, studying Classical, Roman and Byzantine era wall paintings in carved-out tombs. Radpour will use...
Burton named inaugural holder of Englekirk Chair in Structural Engineering
By UCLA Samueli NewsroomHenry Burton, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been named the inaugural holder of the Englekirk Presidential...
UCLA Engineering to play key role in $140M smart manufacturing center
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]President Barack Obama has announced a $70 million federal award to a nonprofit co-founded by UCLA to create a nationwide Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute, with the goal of improving the efficiency of advanced...
Sierra Nevada snowpack not likely to recover from drought until 2019
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA researchers’ new method could be useful for analyzing snowpack in other mountains Even with this winter’s strong El Niño, the Sierra Nevada snowpack will likely take until 2019 to return to pre-drought levels,...
Computer Science Graduate Student is KPCB Fellow for 2016
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button] June 16, 2016 UCLA computer science graduate student Brooke Wenig started her first week as a 2016 KPCB Engineering Fellow. The prestigious summer fellowship program, run by venture capital giant Kleiner Perkins Caufield...
Commencement 2016: Nearly 1,200 students earn engineering degrees
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button] Nearly 1,200 graduates of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science received their degrees at Pauley Pavilion on June 11, 2016, at the school’s 52nd commencement ceremony. Friends and family members...
Remembering Professor William S. Klug
By UCLA Samueli NewsroomThousands of members of the UCLA community came together in a variety of ways to honor Professor William S. Klug in the wake of his tragic death. Klug, 39, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and...
Samueli Foundation donates $10 million for endowed engineering chairs
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has received a $10 million gift from the Samueli Foundation that will help establish as many as 20 new endowed faculty chairs. The matching gift follows the...










