UCLA Engineering Researchers Develop New Method for Detection of Specific DNA Sequences
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]by Matthew Chin FINDINGS: The detection of specific DNA sequences is central to the identification of disease-causing pathogens and genetic diseases, as well as other activities. But current detection technologies require...
Professor Named One of World’s Most Brilliant Innovators by Popular Science
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin Popular Science magazine has named Aydogan Ozcan, an associate professor of electrical engineering and bioengineering at UCLA, one of the world's "Brilliant 10" scientists in its October 2012 issue. The...
Bioengineering Students take the Q-Path to Success
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]The five-member team takes first place in NIH competition. Prize includes $10,000. By Matthew Chin It started out as an undergraduate senior project. It ended up an award-winning design for a cancer diagnostic test. A team...
New UCLA Engineering Research Center to Revolutionize Nanoscale Electromagnetic Devices
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]The NSF-funded multimillion-dollar program, based on a new approach to electronics, could lead to tiny devices once considered fantasy by Matthew Chin A multidisciplinary team of researchers from UCLA and other...
UCLA Engineering professor Receives Government’s Highest Honor for Young Engineers, Scientists
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, an assistant professor of computer science at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been named a recipient of the Presidential Early Career...
UCLA Researchers Create Highly Transparent Solar Cells for Windows that Generate Electricity
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Jennifer Marcus UCLA researchers have developed a new transparent solar cell that is an advance toward giving windows in homes and other buildings the ability to generate electricity while still allowing people to see...
UCLA Bioengineers Find Objects Moving in Stream Create Constructive Wakes
By UCLA Samueli NewsroomFindings have implications for cooling microelectronics, speeding chemical reactions By Matthew Chin and Wileen Wong Kromhout From driftwood traveling down a river to a blood cell flowing through your artery,...
Henry Samueli Wins 2012 Marconi Prize
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Pioneered development and commercialization of broadband circuits Henry Samueli, co-founder and CTO of Broadcom Corporation, and a distinguished alumnus of UCLA, has won the prestigious 2012 Marconi Society Prize and...
In Memoriam: Bertram Bussell
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Bertram Bussell, professor emeritus of computer science and one of the founding members of Computer Science Department, died Saturday, July 7, 2012. He was 88. Bussell was born in New York City and was educated at New York...