First-Gen Latino Doctoral Student Aims to Make an Impact in STEM
Growing up in San Bernardino, California, in a working-class immigrant family, Andrew Ramirez didn’t know what engineers were
UCLA Alumna Continues Mom’s Legacy in Chemical Engineering with Career in Biotech Development
From freezing a roll of wet, color-dyed toilet paper and other household items in the fridge of her family kitchen to study how their properties changed
UCLA Researchers Discover How to Control Direction and Wavelength of Emitted Heat
Materials scientists at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering have introduced a simple yet versatile technique to manage the direction at which a material emits
UCLA Engineering Professors Awarded University of California Grants to Spur Climate Action
Two UCLA Samueli School of Engineering professors have been selected to lead research projects funded by the California Climate Action Seed Grants and Matching Grants
UCLA Engineering Professor, Alum Inducted into National Academy of Inventors
C.K. Ken Yang, a professor and chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, and alumnus
UCLA-Led Team Receives DOE Grant to Simulate Materials for Fusion Reactors
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded a four-year, $12 million grant to a multi-institutional team led by UCLA researchers to simulate the long-term performance of materials in future fusion reactors.
UCLA Engineering Professor Awarded ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship
Yuzhang Li, an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has been awarded
UCLA Engineering Alumnus Gives $1 Million to Establish Faculty Term Chairs
Double Bruin Mukund Padmanabhan M.S. ’89 Ph.D. ’92 has given $1 million to the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering to create two new endowed faculty term chairs. Accompanied by a matching gift from the Samueli Foundation, this is the sixth major
UCLA Computer Science Alumnus Cracks Decade-Old Code, Wins Top Computing Award
Aayush Jain Ph.D. ’21, one of three researchers who achieved what Quanta Magazine called the “crown jewel” of cryptography in 2020, received the best doctoral dissertation award