Time Names UCLA’s Gaurav Sant Among 2024’s Top Influential Climate Leaders Gaurav Sant, who holds faculty appointments at the departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering and leads UCLA’s Institute for Carbon Management, was selected for his role in building North America’s first commercial-scale, ocean-based carbon removal facility.
Synthetic Genes Engineered to Mimic How Cells Build Tissues and Structures Researchers from UCLA and the University of Rome Tor Vergata in Italy have developed synthetic genes that function like the genes in living cells. Recently published in Nature Communications, the study was led by UCLA Samueli professor Elisa Franco of mechanical and aerospace engineering and bioengineering.
New Medical 3D Imaging Technique Shows Microscopic Cell Detail in Real Time Liang Gao, an associate professor of bioengineering at UCLA Samueli, is leading a team to advance fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy for real-time, high-resolution cellular imaging designed to offer quicker, more accurate diagnostics for life-threatening diseases.
Study Seeks Rapid, Paper-Based Test to Detect Cancer Cells in Cerebrospinal Fluid Part of a two-year study funded by the National Institutes of Health, the UCLA research is led by bioengineering professor Daniel Kamei to develop a new test to detect cancer cells in cerebrospinal fluid and monitor the effectiveness of chemotherapy in real time.
Bruin Engineering Students Receive 2024 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships UCLA Samueli students Michael Angelis of civil engineering, Jonathan Gray of aerospace engineering, and Alan Levinson and Corinne Smith of bioengineering, as well as six UCLA Samueli alumni, have been awarded National Science Foundation fellowships to support their research-based master’s and doctoral pursuits in critical STEM fields.
Bioengineering Postdoc Recognized as ‘Wunderkind’ by National Publication Haleh Alimohamadi, a UCLA Samueli bioengineering postdoctoral researcher, has been selected as a 2024 “Wunderkind” by STAT News, a national publication focused on medicine and health, for her innovative work in addressing challenging issues in science and medicine.
Can Legislation Combat the Surge of Non-Consensual Deepfake Porn? John Villasenor, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and faculty co-director of the UCLA Institute for Technology, Law and Policy, shares his insights on the technical limitations and legal guardrails around AI-generated deepfakes.
Water, Hold the Salt Yoram Cohen, a distinguished professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, shares his thoughts on the urgent need for desalination technologies. The piece also features reverse osmosis membranes pioneered in the late 1950s from UCLA researchers Sidney Loeb and Srinivasa Sourirajan.
Can Researchers Use AI to Take Microscopy to the Next Level? Aydogan Ozcan, UCLA's Volgenau Professor for Engineering Innovation with appointments in the Electrical and Computer Engineering and Bioengineering departments, explains how his team’s deep-learning-based virtual staining technology could allow pathologists to analyze tissue biopsies for multiple diseases more efficiently.
A.R. Frank Wazzan, 88, Renowned Nuclear Thermal-Hydraulics Engineer and Former Dean of UCLA Samueli A.R. Frank Wazzan, a distinguished professor emeritus of the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering who served as the school’s dean for 15 years, died Oct. 1 from natural causes. He was 88. Wazzan was an internationally recognized researcher in nuclear material, thermal hydraulics and stability of laminar flows.
