Scientists Shake Fragile Delta Levee in Hope of Averting Statewide Catastrophe
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Judy Lin What happened to the levees of New Orleans in 2005 — massive collapses during Hurricane Katrina, leaving most of the city underwater — could happen to fragile levees near Sacramento that protect supplies of...
UCLA’s Top Teachers: Helping Students Find Treasures Locked in an Equation
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Judy Lin The UCLA Academic Senate has awarded UCLA’s highest teaching prize to six Academic Senate members. In an occasional series of stories that will run throughout the summer, UCLA Today will profile these winners...
Nano Gold Rush: Researchers Use Tiny Gold Particles to Boost Organic Solar Cell Efficiency
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Plasmonic technique helps enhance power conversion by up to 20 percent By Jennifer Marcus In the world of solar energy, organic photovoltaic solar cells have a wide range of potential applications, but they are still...
Phone Losing Charge? Technology Created by UCLA Engineers Allows LCDs to Recycle Energy
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]With photovoltaic polarizers, devices could be powered by sunlight, own backlight By Matthew Chin and Wileen Wong Kromhout We've all worried about the charge on our smartphone or laptop running down when we have no access...
UCLA Engineers Create Polymer Light-Emitting Devices That Can Be Stretched Like Rubber
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout FINDINGS: Stretchable electronics, an emerging class of modern electronic materials that can bend and stretch, have the potential to be used in a wide range of applications, including wearable...
Profs’ Water Cleaning System Could Save Thousands of Gallons, Dollar Bills
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Alison Hewitt UCLA’s power plant had something that professors Yoram Cohen and Panagiotis Christofides wanted: hopelessly filthy water. And they have invented something that the Cogeneration Plant wanted: a way to clean...
UCLA Engineering Establishes Endowed Chair in Chemical Engineering with $2M Gift
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has announced the establishment of the William D. Van Vorst Chair in Chemical Engineering, made possible by a $2 million gift from...
Summer Program Sparks Teens’ Interest in Computer Science Careers
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By V. Claire Jadulang Tucked away on an underground level of Boelter Hall, the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) hosts a conference room gathering where six computer science researchers discuss a cell phone...
UCLA Study Shows Bacteria Use Batman-like Grappling Hooks to ‘Slingshot’ on Surfaces
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout Bacteria use various appendages to move across surfaces prior to forming multicellular bacterial biofilms. Some species display a particularly jerky form of movement known as "twitching" motility,...