UCLA Smart Grid Energy Research Center (SMERC) Celebrates Its Start
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]The Smart Grid Energy Research Center (SMERC) held a kickoff event last month celebrating the start of new research programs and partnerships in making a smart electrical grid into a reality. The center, based at the UCLA...
UCLA Engineering Awarded Grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA Engineering has been awarded a $100,000 Grand Challenges Grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for innovative global health research based on an idea proposed by Peter Lillehoj, a Ph.D. student in...
Radically Simple Technique Developed to Grow Conducting Polymer Thin Films
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Mike Rodewald A team of UCLA chemists and engineers has developed a new method for coating large surfaces with nanofiber thin films that are both transparent and electrically conductive. Their method involves the...
New Study Led by UCLA Engineering Team Shows Graphene Grows as Single Crystals on Nickel Islands
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Moiré patterns are spatial superstructures formed by overlaying two planar lattices. Observed for a long time as watered effects made by overlaying fine silk sheets, moiré patterns could appear at much lower length scales...
UCLA Receives $12.5 million Grant to Increase Computer Science Instruction in Urban Schools
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Project utilizes cell phones, Web technology to foster student engagement By Shaena Engle and Wileen Wong Kromhout UCLA has been awarded $12.5 million from the National Science Foundation to help advance new and innovative...
Graphene-Based Electronics Will Depend on the Substrate Material’s Orientation
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]A team of researchers, led by Suneel Kodambaka, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, have found that the electronic properties of graphene, a one-atom-thick sheet of graphite, depend on its...
UCLA Engineering Receives $6M to Construct New State-of-the-Art Building
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science $6 million to support the construction...
UCLA-led Research Team Finds that Bacteria Can Stand Up and Walk
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout Many drug-resistant infections are the result of bacterial biofilms, structured aggregates of bacteria that live on surfaces and that are extremely resistant to environmental stresses. These...
Research Team led by UCLA Receives $7.9M from NSF to Develop Internet for 21st Century
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout The National Science Foundation's Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering has awarded a team of researchers led by UCLA $7.9 million to develop a more efficient and robust...