Biofuels Technology is Latest Example of UCLA Spurring Economic Growth
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Jeremy Rosenberg A company that is commercializing a next-generation biofuels platform and has licensed intellectual property co-developed by a preeminent UCLA professor recently completed a $107 million initial public...
Diabetes Foot Ulcer Diagnosis and Treatment Could Be Improved and Made Earlier with Hyperspectral Imaging Techniques
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin Building on an advanced imaging technique, researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have developed algorithms that could be used to identify foot ulcers associated...
New Statistical Method Could Improve Search for Genes Involved in Common Diseases
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout FINDINGS: Recent breakthroughs in the analysis of genetic variation in large populations have led to the discovery of hundreds of genes involved in dozens of common diseases. Many of these...
UCLA Engineering Alumnus Vinton Cerf MS ’70, PhD ’72 Honored as UCLA Edward A. Dickson Alumnus of the Year
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA will honor Vinton Cerf, vice president and chief Internet evangelist for Google Inc., at ceremonies on campus on Friday, May 20. The awards tradition, which began in 1946, pays tribute to alumni who manifest...
New Technology Fuses MRI, Ultrasound to Achieve Targeted Biopsy of Prostate Cancer
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Rachel Champeau A new prostate-imaging technology that fuses MRI with real-time, three-dimensional ultrasound may offer a more exacting method to obtain biopsy specimens from suspicious areas within the organ. Four UCLA...
2011 Engineering Open House with Keynote K. Megan McArthur ’93, NASA Astronaut and UCLA Engineering Alumna
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]This year’s Engineering Open House, an annual recruitment event for potential first year students, featured keynote speaker K. Megan McArthur ’93. McArthur, who served aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis during the last...
Visionary Healthcare Entrepreneur and Philanthropist, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, to Speak at UCLA Engineering Commencement
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science will hold its 2011 commencement ceremony at 9 a.m. on Saturday, June 11 at Drake Stadium on the UCLA campus. Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, Chairman of the Chan...
Optical Microscope Without Lenses Produces High-Resolution 3-D Images on a Chip
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Mike Rodewald UCLA researchers have redefined the concept of a microscope by removing the lens to create a system that is small enough to fit in the palm of a hand but powerful enough to create three-dimensional...
UCLA Researchers Now One Step Closer to Controlled Engineering of Nanocatalysts
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout Currently, some 20 percent of the world's industrial production is based on catalysts — molecules that can quicken the pace of chemical reactions by factors of billions. Oil, pharmaceuticals,...