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...
Engineering researchers receive $2 million NSF grant to ‘bend rules of classical physics’
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Interdisciplinary team seeks to significantly increase efficiency for wireless communication and sensor technologies An interdisciplinary team of researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied...
UCLA Civil Engineer Professor to Lead Data Reconnaissance Team on Central Italy Earthquake
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Press Release from the Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance Association. Turning Disaster into Knowledge. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance (GEER) Association...
UCLA researchers develop method to speed up detection of infectious diseases, cancer
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]The team aims to implement the technique with portable readers, benefitting clinics in resource-poor areas A team of UCLA researchers has found a way to speed and simplify the detection of proteins in blood and plasma...
Nanomaterial safety screening could become faster, cheaper with new laboratory test
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA researchers have designed a laboratory test that uses microchip technology to predict how potentially hazardous nanomaterials could be. According to UCLA professor Huan Meng, certain engineered nanomaterials, such as...