UCLA Engineering Doctoral Student Aims to Bring Accessible Speech Technology to All
The way people talk is influenced by where they grew up, the school they attended, their cultural background and the language spoken at home among other things.
It Takes a Village: Bruin Engineer Shares Hopeful Vision for Diversity in STEM
When Krystal Cunningham Ph.D.’19 first moved to Los Angeles from Jamaica as a teenager, she found it strange that there were community and scholarship programs specifically geared toward minorities.
Q&A with UCLA Civil Engineer Jonathan Stewart on Earthquake in Turkey
The devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Turkey on Feb. 6 has claimed the lives of more than 36,000 people and flattened thousands of buildings across southern Turkey and northern Syria.
Watch: Dennis Hong Rolls Out his Robot Posse
From the moment he saw C-3PO and R2-D2 waddle across the screen in “Star Wars” as a 7-year-old, Dennis Hong knew he wanted to build robots.
UCLA Engineer Yi Tang Named Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science
Yi Tang, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has been elected as a fellow of the American Association
Ion-Specific Membrane Holds Potential to Improve Energy Storage and Water Filtration
Contemporary batteries and fuel cells rely on membranes that let through certain charged particles, or ions, but not others.
UCLA Chemical Engineer Receives NSF CAREER Award for Improving Efficiency of LEDs and Solar Cells
Carissa Eisler, an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation
Greening Up the Production of Ammonia — the Key Ingredient for Fertilizer
Ammonia may be best known in everyday life as a pungent household cleaning ingredient, but most of the inorganic compound produced each year is used in fertilizer
Bioengineer Mireille Kamariza Featured as One of 11 Up-and-Coming Researchers
Mireille Kamariza, an assistant professor of bioengineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, was featured in Nature Medicine