UCLA Study Finds Concrete’s Natural Absorption of Carbon Dioxide Does Little to Offset Emissions from Cement Production

Concrete slowly absorbs small amounts of carbon dioxide from the air over its lifetime, a natural process sometimes proposed as a solution to the cement industry’s heavy carbon footprint

UCLA Engineering Grad Student Earns Fellowship to Study in Paris

By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA materials science and engineering doctoral student Yuan Lin will spend the 2015-16 academic year conducting research at the Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie (UPMC) and at a photonics and nanostructures lab in in Paris...

Computer Science Post-Doc Receives UCLA Chancellor’s Award

Computer Science Post-Doc Receives UCLA Chancellor’s Award

By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA computer science post-doctoral scholar Alexander Afanasyev PhD ’13 received a 2015 UCLA Chancellor’s Award for Postdoctoral Research. Afanasyev is a member of the UCLA Internet Research Lab headed by his former...

UCLA Researchers Develop New Material to Accelerate Healing

UCLA Researchers Develop New Material to Accelerate Healing

By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Injectable gel fills wounds and promotes tissue regeneration By Matthew Chin Researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have developed an injectable hydrogel that helps skin wounds...

EE Grad Students Receive Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship

EE Grad Students Receive Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship

By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]A pair of UCLA electrical engineering graduate students – Sidhant Tiwari and Zhi (Jackie) Yao – have received a 2015 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship of $100,000 for their proposal on a new way to design microscale antennas...

UCLA Team Prepares for ACM Collegiate Programming Finals in Morocco

UCLA Team Prepares for ACM Collegiate Programming Finals in Morocco

By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Bill Kisliuk Four UCLA computer science students will head to Morocco in May to participate in the world’s most prestigious computer programming competition. The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Intercollegiate...

James Liao Elected to the National Academy of Sciences

By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]James C. Liao, a groundbreaking researcher in renewable biofuels and UCLA's Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Professor of Chemical Engineering, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the organization announced...