Five Students Receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Five graduate students at 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 “recognizes...
Game On! UCLA Researchers use Online Crowd-Sourcing to Diagnose Malaria
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout Online crowd-sourcing — in which a task is presented to the public, who respond, for free, with various solutions and suggestions — has been used to evaluate potential consumer products, develop...
When Cells Hit the Wall: UCLA Engineers put the Squeeze on Cells to Diagnose Disease
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout and Matthew Chin If you throw a rubber balloon filled with water against a wall, it will spread out and deform on impact, while the same balloon filled with honey, which is more viscous, will deform...
New study provides Atomic-Scale Insights into Thermal Stability of Ultra-High Temperature Ceramics
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Ultra-high temperature ceramics (UHTCs) are a special class of materials with excellent mechanical properties and superior resistance to oxidation, corrosion, and ablation at high temperatures more than 2,000 degrees...
UCLA Seismic Design Team takes First Place in National Competition
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]A team of UCLA students from the school’s American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) chapter took first place over 26 other schools in a national seismic safety competition. The event is held annually by the Earthquake...
White House Names James Liao a “Champion of Change” in Renewable Energy
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]James Liao, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, was one of nine individuals honored at the White House recently as Champions of Change for advancing new ideas that are leading the way to a clean energy...
UCLA Bioengineers Develop Artificial Chip for Testing How Drugs Interact with Ion Channels
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin and Wileen Wong Kromhout FINDINGS: Ion channels, proteins embedded in cell membranes, are central to many of the human body's physiological processes, including cardiac activity. For this reason, they are...
UCLA Engineering Part of a New NSF “Expeditions in Computing” Team
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science is part of a team of researchers just awarded $10 million by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to make computer programming...
In Memoriam: Computer Science Pioneer Gerald Estrin
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]by Cynthia Lee and Matthew Chin Gerald (Jerry) Estrin, a professor emeritus at UCLA who worked as a research engineer on one of the earliest computers, died March 29, 2012, at his home in Santa Monica at age 90. Many of...