Fourth-Year Engineering Student Aims to Bring Cleaner Water to Low-Income Communities
Oil wells stood across the street from where Citlali Rodriguez once played soccer as a child
UCLA Chemical Engineers Find New Path to Improve Efficiency of Plastic Precursor Production
UCLA chemical engineers have mapped out a promising method to improve the conversion of propane gas into propene, the world’s second most widely produced plastic precursor
UCLA Announces $5 Million Gift From Kenneth C. Griffin for Fusion Science
For more than a century, scientists have explored the secrets of nuclear fusion, the process by which the sun and other stars power themselves.
UCLA Computer Scientists, Mathematician Terence Tao Awarded Laude Moonshots Grant to Build AI System as Research Partner
A team of six UCLA faculty members spanning artificial intelligence, computer science and mathematics has received a $250,000 seed grant from the Laude Institute
UCLA Researchers Develop Smart Stent to Track Blood Flow in Real Time
A multidisciplinary UCLA research team has developed a battery-free, magnetoelastic smart stent designed to track blood flow continuously after angioplasty
Amazon Fellowships Support 42 UCLA Samueli Doctoral Students in a Single Academic Quarter, Totaling Nearly $1 Million
Forty-two doctoral students from the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering received Amazon fellowships for the 2026 winter quarter
UCLA Team Awarded $5 Million DARPA Contract to Develop AI for Math Advancement
A team of UCLA computer scientists and mathematicians has been awarded a three-year, $5 million grant by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop artificial intelligence tools
UCLA Engineering Dean Alissa Park Receives ACS Garvan-Olin Medal Honoring Distinguished Leadership by Women Chemists and Chemical Engineers
Ah-Hyung “Alissa” Park, the Ronald and Valerie Sugar Dean of the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has received the 2026 Francis P. Garvan-John M. Olin Medal from the American Chemical Society,
Leonard Kleinrock on Launching the Internet and his Hopes for the Future of AI
Internet pioneer Leonard Kleinrock joined host Evan Lovett for a brand-new episode of “L.A. in a Minute,” where the UCLA distinguished professor emeritus of computer science opened up about his path toward engineering,