Hu named Air Force Young Investigator
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Yongjie Hu, an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, has received a Young Investigator Award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. The three-year, $360,000-grant will support Hu’s...
New metamaterial paves way for terahertz technologies
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Work by UCLA-led engineers could dramatically improve imaging, sensing and communication applications A research team led by UCLA electrical engineers has developed an artificial composite material to control of...
DNA mapping tool helps scientists better understand how genes are regulated
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]FINDINGS Scientists have devised a powerful new tool for understanding how DNA controls gene activity in cells. The tool allows researchers to map at high resolution, across large swaths of a cell’s genome, which DNA...
UCLA Engineering ranked high in 2016-17 Times Higher Education list
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Times Higher Education’s 2016-17 World University Rankings for engineering and technology placed UCLA Engineering 13th in the world, sixth in the U.S. and second for U.S. public universities. The subject rankings were...
UCLA Engineering to hold showcase
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science is proud to announce the first annual Engineering Showcase, highlighting current research being conducted by the school’s world-renowned centers and...
Alumni Ronald and Valerie Sugar give $5 million to UCLA Engineering
By UCLA Samueli NewsroomUCLA alumni Ronald and Valerie Sugar have given $5 million to the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science to establish an endowment to support the dean’s top priorities for the school. In...
Stay cyber-secure with help from UCLA and UC
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Students, staff and faculty can become cyber-wise during National Cyber Security Awareness Month We shop, email, bank and research thousands of questions, from the trivial to the important, on the internet. And the...
Researchers design wearable microscope that can measure fluorescent dyes through skin
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA scientists help create device that makes monitoring disease biomarkers more cost-effective UCLA researchers working with a team at Verily Life Sciences have designed a mobile microscope that can detect and monitor...
UCLA researchers use stem cells to grow 3-D lung-in-a-dish
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]FINDINGS By coating tiny gel beads with lung-derived stem cells and then allowing them to self-assemble into the shapes of the air sacs found in human lungs, researchers at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative...