UCLA Samueli Commemorates Class of 2024 Bruin Engineers Nearly 1,800 graduating engineering and computer science students of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science Class of 2024 celebrated their milestone accomplishments in two commencement ceremonies held in Pauley Pavilion June 15-16.
UCLA Samueli Announces Class of 2024 Awardees and Commencement Student Presenters Congratulations to school-wide outstanding Bachelor of Science Emir Arda Deger (electrical engineering), Russell R. O’Neill Distinguished Service Award and Harry M. Showman Prize (undergraduate) recipient Ava Asmani (electrical engineering), and Harry M. Showman Prize (graduate) Xun Zhao (bioengineering doctorate).
Alan Ardell Receives Dickson Emeritus Professorship Award A professor emeritus of materials science and engineering, Alan Ardell is one of four recipients of the 2023-2024 Edward A. Dickson Emeritus Professorship Award, which includes a prize of $5,000.
Environmental Connections: Plant-Based Nutrition Civil and environmental engineering professor Jennifer Jay shares her expertise on inefficiency and pollution in animal-based products in this program produced by the Rochester, New York PBS affiliate.
Accelerating AI: The Cutting-edge Chips Powering the Computing Revolution Jason Cong, a distinguished professor of computer science at UCLA, shares his insights on graphics processing units and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA). Cong has been designing FGPAs to speed up genomic information processing.
The Vault Guy Shaily Mahendra, a professor of civil and environmental engineering, is highlighted in this piece on UCLA biological chemist Leonard Rome, who co-discovered and continues to work on vaults — massive cellular particles whose purposes are still unknown. Rome and Mahendra are working on synthetic versions loaded with enzymes to break down groundwater contaminants.
Evaluating Tumor Heterogeneity with a High Throughput Pipeline A pair of researchers at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Alice Soragni and Michael Teitell, the latter has a faculty appointment in the Bioengineering Department, saw their proof-of-concept study into new automated 3D screening models featured in the life sciences magazine.
