UCLA Engineering Receives $21 Million Pledge from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative The Chan Zuckerberg
Initiative has committed to donating $21 million over three years to the
UCLA Institute for Carbon Management led by civil and environmental
engineering professor Gaurav Sant to support the institute’s mission of
developing new carbon removal technologies designed to combat climate
change.
UCLA Engineering Online Master’s Program Ranked No. 1 for Veterans The online master’s
degree program (MSOL) is ranked No. 1 for veterans in U.S. News &
World Report’s 2022 list of the best online engineering programs. MSOL
is also rated the No. 1 online engineering program among public
universities and No. 2 overall among more than 100 programs surveyed.
Bahram Jalali Elected to the National Academy of Engineering Bahram Jalali, UCLA’s
Fang Lu Professor of Engineering of electrical and computer engineering,
and of bioengineering, has been elected to the National Academy of
Engineering, among the highest professional honors granted to an
American engineer.
AI Pioneer Judea Pearl Receives BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award Judea Pearl,
chancellor’s professor of computer science has received the 2021 BBVA
award, which includes a €400,000 prize, in the information and
communication technologies category for his foundational work in
artificial intelligence.
UCLA Tops All Universities in Number of 2022 Sloan Research Fellows Computer science
assistant professor Quanquan Gu joined seven other UCLA faculty members
to become the latest Sloan Research Fellows. His research focuses on
making machine learning algorithms more efficient and reliable in
various applications.
UCLA Chemical Engineer Receives Two Early Career Awards Yuzhang Li, an
assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, has
received two major awards in support of his research — a CAREER award
from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and a Doctoral New
Investigator Grant from the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research
Fund (ACS PRF).
Materials Today Rising Star Award 2021 Assistant professor
Jun Chen of bioengineering recently received the 2021 Materials Today
Rising Star Award. The honor recognizes early career researchers in
materials science and engineering who have demonstrated themselves to be
exceptionally capable researchers with the potential to become future
leaders in the field.
UCLA Researchers Develop Novel Microscopic PicoShell Particles UCLA bioengineers led
by professor Dino Di Carlo have created a new type of petri dish in the
form of microscopic, permeable particles that can dramatically speed up
research and development timelines of biological products.
Innovative Reflective Materials to Accelerate Space Probes Light Years Away In two published
studies, research led by assistant professor Aaswath Raman of materials
science and engineering at UCLA Samueli and collaborators at the
University of Pennsylvania are exploring ways to build and optimize
nanoscale light sails for the journey into interstellar space.
Bacteria Build Communities Using Chemical Signals Comparable to Radio Waves UCLA research led by
bioengineering professor Gerard Wong could give scientists insights to
help them cultivate useful microbes or clear dangerous ones from
surfaces where biofilms have formed — including on tissues and organs in
the human body.
Sweating the Small Stuff: Smartwatch Developed at UCLA Measures Key Stress Hormone A UCLA research team,
including electrical and computer engineering associate professor Sam
Emaminejad and distinguished professor Paul Weiss of materials science
and engineering, has developed a smartwatch to assess cortisol levels
found in sweat accurately, noninvasively and in real time.
New Way to Make Microparticles Could Accelerate Drug Development, Production of New Cell Strains UCLA scientists have
devised a method for producing intricately shaped hydrogel
microparticles at a rate of more than 40 million per hour. The study is
led by Sohyung Lee, a UCLA doctoral student in chemical engineering and
professor Dino Di Carlo of bioengineering and of mechanical and
aerospace engineering.
UCLA Spinout Concrete-AI Closes $2M Seed Round for Concrete Efficiency Platform The journal profiles
the Los Angeles startup that commercializes AI and machine learning
technology developed at the UCLA Institute for Carbon Management to more
accurately predict the amount of concrete needed for any project and
thereby reducing overuse of concrete to keep costs in check and emit
less carbon.
How to Weaponize Our Dying Oceans Against Climate Change The story highlights
UCLA civil and environmental engineering professor Gaurav Sant whose
research “uses the ocean as a sponge for carbon that involves inducing
electrolysis (splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen) to remove carbon
dioxide from the water and locking it up within mineral salts called
carbonates.”
Novel Microscopic PicoShell Particles Developed The science journal
introduces the UCLA research, which has recently been published in the
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, detailing how
PicoShells work and their potential applications.
SmartLess Podcast Featuring Adam McKay The Feb. 7 episode
features writer-director Adam McKay (“Don’t Look Up”) discussing UCLA
carbon removal breakthrough technology using the seas. (Timecode 13:57)
First UCLA Chemical Engineering Ph.D. Now a Senior Program Manager at Northrop Grumman In 2012, Kimberly
Cross MS ’07, PhD ‘12 became the first Black woman to graduate from UCLA
with a Ph.D. in chemical engineering. She began her career at Northrop
Grumman in 2015 working as a materials engineer and has since held
multiple roles in the American aerospace and defense technology company.