In Memoriam: David Okrent
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin David Okrent, UCLA professor emeritus of mechanical and aerospace engineering, who made pioneering contributions in nuclear reactor design and safety, died Friday, Dec. 14. He was 90. Okrent received his...
New Energy-efficient Computer Memory Using Magnetic Materials
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]MeRAM is up to 1,000 times more energy-efficient than current technologies By Matthew Chin | December 14, 2012 By using electric voltage instead of a flowing electric current, researchers from UCLA's Henry Samueli School...
Got Food Allergies? Test Your Meal Using a Cell Phone
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin Are you allergic to peanuts and worried there might be some in that cookie? Now you can find out using a rather unlikely source: your cell phone. A team of researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of...
Engineering Professor Receives NIH Director’s Pioneer Award
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Yi Tang, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has received an NIH Director's Pioneer Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)....
UCLA Engineering Team Receives IARPA Funding to Improve Information Utility
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]A team of four UCLA electrical engineering professors -- Lara Dolecek, Danijela Cabric, Greg Pottie, and Mani Srivastava -- has received a competitive $500,000 seed contract for work with the Intelligence Advanced...
Times Higher Education ranks UCLA 7th in the World for Engineering and Technology
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA is ranked 7th on the 2012-13 Times Higher Education World University Rankings for Engineering and Technology. The rankings, released October 4, compared universities overall, as well as across six subject areas: arts...
New Faculty Join UCLA Engineering
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has recently added two new faculty members: Wentai Liu, professor of bioengineering, who joined in Winter 2012; and Wei Wang, professor of computer science....
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...