UCLA Forms Water Technology Research Center to Address Escalating Water Scarcity in SoCal and Worldwide
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Desalination center — the first of its kind on the West Coast — will research turning brackish or seawater into fresh water UCLA’s Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has formed a new Water Technology...
New Institute for Digital Research and Education to Link Interdisciplinary Efforts
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA officials have announced the formation of the Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE), a high-end computation, system simulation, and visualization center that will bring together faculty expertise...
John Marburger, Science Adviser to President Bush, Tells UCLA Graduates – “Engineering is a word that has a broad and noble significance.”
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Nearly 6,500 guests and students from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science gathered at Pauley Pavilion in Westwood Saturday to hear John H. Marburger III, science adviser to President George W....
Biometric-based Cryptography Applied to Enable Secure Communication
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Someday, doctors may use your fingerprints to lock your medical records or computer technicians to secure transactions between servers, ensuring that you’re the only person able to view the encrypted data. Earlier this...
Engineering Professor Jennifer Jay Named Recipient of Presidential Early Career Award
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science professor Jennifer Jay has been chosen as one of only 20 young National Science Foundation (NSF)-supported scientists and engineers to receive the prestigious...
UCLA Engineering Team Selected as Semifinalist for 2005 Autonomous Vehicle Challenge
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Forty Teams Advance to Next Round in Quest tor $2 Million Prize In March of 2004, just outside of Barstow, California, a series of driverless, robotic vehicles set out across the desert for Las Vegas. One after another...
Sensor Technology to Help Ease Traffic Woes
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]A UCLA engineering researcher is testing a new combination of rapid-hardening cement and embedded computer sensors that could cut road closures by 20%, potentially saving the public as much as $60,000 or more per hour As...
Institute for Cell Mimetic Space Exploration at UCLA Awarded $2 Million Grant from the National Institutes of Health
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]CMISE to develop tool for viewing metabolomics of cells — the pathways within cells that show researchers how the body works at the smallest level The Institute for Cell Mimetic Space Exploration (CMISE) at the UCLA Henry...
Booting Up Computer Smarts
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Computers are permanent fixtures in the niches – cubicles, dorm rooms – of everyday life. Social networks, workplace operations, even individual identities have gone to the wires. But few of the computer-dependent even...