Healthcare Start-Up Wins ITA Student Venture Contest
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Bill Kisliuk A company founded by UCLA students to develop a non-invasive test for life-threatening brain injuries took the $30,000 first prize in the inaugural Student Entrepreneur Venture Competition on May 23. Neural...
Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Receives Award from DuPont
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Shaily Mahendra, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been selected as a 2013 DuPont Young Professor. Mahendra is one of 14...
Professor Jason Speyer named first holder of Ronald and Valerie Sugar Chair in Engineering
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Aerospace, aviation guidance expert worked on NASA's Apollo missions By Bill Kisliuk Jason Speyer, a distinguished professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and...
UCLA Electrical Engineer to Develop Next-Generation Collision Avoidance Systems
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]The system’s computational and physical components are designed together from the start, and will result in safer systems that are faster and less expensive to design. By Bill Kisliuk and Matthew Chin UCLA electrical...
UCLA Researchers Win International Award for Groundbreaking Water Treatment Membrane
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]New material holds great promise for cleaning up wastewater from the oil and gas industry By Matthew Chin A groundbreaking membrane material developed at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has...
UCLA Researchers Discover Sperm Move Along a ‘Twisting Ribbon’
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Bill Kisliuk Opening the door to more sophisticated investigation of sperm locomotion and biophysics, researchers from UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have identified previously unobserved...
Study Finds Bacteria Organize According to ‘Rich-Get-Richer’ Principle
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Research could help battle bacterial infections that do not respond to powerful drugs By Bill Kisliuk Bacteria on a surface wander around and often organize into highly resilient communities known as biofilms. It turns out...
UCLA Bioengineers Simplify Fluid Flows by Removing Complex Math
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin A research team led by UCLA bioengineers has developed a way to program and control the shape of fluids flowing through pipes or conduits without the need to solve complex and time-consuming fluid-motion...
NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Awarded
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Six students currently affiliated with the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science were recently awarded prestigious Graduate Research Fellowships from the National Science Foundation. The NSF program...