Motion picture animation and video games are impressively lifelike nowadays, capturing a wisp of hair falling across a heroine’s eyes or a canvas sail snapping crisply in the wind.

The California Department of Transportation has awarded a $1.5 million research contract to the UCLA Natural Hazards Risk and Resiliency Research Center (NHR3) to establish the Seismic Geohazard Research Program.

Each year, the Engineering Society of UCLA (ESUC) hosts the Student Group of the Year Awards, commemorating exceptional student organizations within the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering.

Computer science majors Rebecca Xu and Sriram Balachandran, co-executive directors of LA Hacks, had to transition the hackathon to a virtual environment — no easy feat.

Held in the winter quarter, several weeks before the California issued stay-at-home order, UCLA computer science students showcased their projects to professors, industry judges and other students at Covel Commons during the Association of Computing Machinery’s flagship annual event: Tech Gala.

A team of UCLA undergraduate students has won a national competition sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency seeking innovative plans for stormwater management.

At UCLA Samueli, we quickly realized we would have to think outside the box to transition our annual Discover UCLA Engineering recruitment event on April 5 from one that’s held on campus to a virtual experience.

Now an up-and-coming software engineer at real-estate technology firm Redfin, Nathan Yang was once a freshman majoring in computer science.

Five UCLA Samueli engineering students — two graduate and three undergraduate students pursuing an advanced degree — have received the prestigious 2020 Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation.