New Statistical Method for Genetic Studies Could Cut Computation Time from Years to Hours
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout In the ongoing quest to identify the genetic factors involved in disease, scientists have increasingly turned to genome-wide association studies, or GWAS, which enable the scanning of up to a...
A Chewing gum Diagnostic Test for Malaria
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Spearmint or winterfresh? A UCLA Engineering graduate student is working to develop a diagnostic tool for malaria, one of the world’s most widespread infectious diseases, which will require only a few minutes chewing on...
Career Advice from Alumna Vera Elson
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]From Engineering to Patent Law Vera Elson ’82 (cybernetics), MS ’85, is a trial lawyer and partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in Silicon Valley. She focuses her practice on intellectual...
UCLA Engineers Develop Faster Method to Detect Bacterial Contamination in Coastal Waters
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Method cuts testing time from a day or more to less than an hour By Matthew Chin Currently, beachgoers are informed about water-quality conditions based on results from the previous day's sample. Scientists must collect...
UCLA Engineering to Demonstrate Smart Grid Technologies for Los Angeles
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has been awarded a $60 million grant from the Department of Energy to develop and test advanced smart grid technologies in partnership with a consortium of top Southern...
2010 UCLA Engineering Tech Forum poster competition winners
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]First place: Katherine Bulgrin, “Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, An Investigation of a Two-Step Thermal Energy Harvesting Device” Honorable Mentions: Kitty Cha, Materials Science and Engineering, “Solution-Processed...
Two UCLA Engineering Faculty to Receive Sloan Research Fellowships
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA ranks third in nation in number of 2010 Alfred P. Sloan fellows Five exceptional UCLA scientists awarded prestigious research fellowships By Stuart WolpertFive outstanding young scientists at UCLA are among 118...
Carnesale joins high-level commission exploring storage of nuclear waste
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Cynthia Lee, UCLA Today Chancellor Emeritus Albert Carnesale has been selected to serve on a high-level national commission that will study and make recommendations for developing a safe, long-term solution to the...
Carbon Emissions Converted to Gasoline Alternative
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA researchers engineer bacteria to turn carbon dioxide into liquid fuel By Matthew Chin Global climate change has prompted efforts to drastically reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas produced by burning...