Nine New Stars Join World-Class Roster at UCLA Engineering
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom By Bill Kisliuk The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science is proud to welcome nine new faculty members in the fall of 2013-14. With more than 50 NSF Early Career Award winners on the faculty...
New Technique Improves Accuracy, Ease of Cancer Diagnosis
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]'Deformability cytometry' can closely analyze more than 1,000 cells per second By Matthew Chin A team of researchers from UCLA and Harvard University have demonstrated a technique that, by measuring the physical properties...
Mong, Rice Honored at 2013 UCLA Engineering Awards Gala
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Bill Kisliuk The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science honored the accomplishments of leading students, teachers and alumni at the school’s annual Awards Dinner on Nov. 1. Roughly 350 people...
Bioengineering Undergraduates Win National Awards, Give Back
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin A team of UCLA bioengineering students was honored with two awards for engineering design at a national meeting of bioengineers in September. Team members turned around and donated part of their winnings to...
U.S. Department of Transportation Awards $1.2 Million for Sustainable Cement Alternatives
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has awarded a three-year, $1.2 million grant to the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science to investigate...
Leaving a Strong Legacy, UCLA Engineering Dean Vijay K. Dhir to Retire in 2015
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Bill Kisliuk UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science Dean Vijay K. Dhir announced today that he will step down as dean on June 30, 2015, after leading the school for more than 13 years. Dhir will...
UCLA Team Receives $1.3 Million for Zero-Net Energy Building Materials, Software Tools
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin A UCLA research team has received a $1.3 million grant from the California Energy Commission (CEC) to identify new materials, methodologies and to develop new software tools for zero-net energy (ZNE)...
Dunn Elected to World Academy of Ceramics
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Bruce S. Dunn, the Nippon Sheet Glass Company Professor of Material Science and Engineering at UCLA, has been elected to the World Academy of Ceramics in recognition of his outstanding achievements in sol-gel materials and...
UCLA Leads the Way in Modern Data Storage Systems with a New Center
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]In September the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science launched a new center to push the frontiers in emerging data storage systems and to create highly-trained workforce of graduate students and...