Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Ben Horowitz MS ’90 on business leadership
Ben Horowitz MS ’90, co-founder and general partner of Silicon Valley venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz, spoke to nearly 500 UCLA students at Ackerman Grand Ballroom. The event was the fourth and final program of the year in the inaugural Ronald and Valerie Sugar Distinguished Speaker Series.
UCLA team in Carbon XPRIZE competition receives $1.5 million donation
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]J.R. DeShazo, holding a sample of CO2NCRETE, and Gaurav Sant. The UCLA professors are part of a team competing for the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE. Photo by Roberto Gudino/UCLA Gift from Anthony and Jeanne Pritzker Family...
UCLA among the nation’s best for commercializing campus research
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Milken Institute report notes strong positive impact on Los Angeles economy UCLA is No. 1 in the nation when it comes to the number of startup companies launched as a result of campus research, according to the rankings by...
UCLA-led team develops tiny, stable and super-accurate clock component
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]New optical micro-oscillator could lead to next-generation timing, navigation and sensing applications A team of engineering researchers from UCLA and OEWaves has developed an optical micro-oscillator, a key time-keeping...
UCLA-led team develops technique to control laser polarization
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]A research team led by UCLA electrical engineers has developed a new technique to control the polarization state of a laser that could lead to a new class of powerful, high-quality lasers for use in medical imaging,...
3Qs – Sweat Tech with EE Professor Sam Emaminejad
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Sam Emaminejad, assistant professor of electrical engineering, has demonstrated a wearable biosensor that can be used in the diagnosis of cystic fibrosis, diabetes and other diseases. He and his colleagues showed that this...
Computer science Ph.D. student receives 2017 Google Fellowship
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Computer science graduate student Muhammad Gulzar has received a Google Ph.D. Fellowship, in recognition of his promising research in big data debugging. He is one of 33 scholars across North America, Europe, and the...
Four UCLA Engineering students receive NSF Graduate Fellowships
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button] Four students at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have received the National Science Foundation’s prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship. The competitive fellowship recognizes...
Aydogan Ozcan named Guggenheim Fellow
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Aydogan Ozcan, Chancellor’s Professor of Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering and Associate Director of the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA, has been awarded a 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship. He is one of...