By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Calling all UCLA undergraduates: the Internet Research Incubator offers you a year-long research opportunity and $15,000. The newly established Internet Research Incubator will provide up to 12 UCLA undergraduate students...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Researchers from UCLA and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have made an important step toward a substantially faster and more effective treatment for tuberculosis, which infects some 10 million people and causes 1.5 million...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA researchers have developed a software program that simulates the response of the human thyroid hormone regulation system to a variety of treatments and diseases. The open-source program, Thyrosim, can be used by...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Three assistant professors at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science received CAREER Awards in 2016 from the National Science Foundation. The award is the agency’s highest honor for faculty...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA–Harvard study finds modern humans have more Denisovan DNA than earlier models showed A new study by scientists at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science and Harvard Medical School offers...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]The Sustainable L.A. Grand Challenge and UCLA Engineering Professor Yoram Cohen, a leader in desalination technologies and smart water systems, will take part in the White House Water Summit on Tuesday, March 22. Held in...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]An international team of engineers and biologists will gain unprecedented insights into how birds fly so efficiently in order to design unmanned aircraft with shapeshifting wings. These planes may prove to be lighter,...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science’s graduate program was ranked eighth among public universities and 14th overall in the 2017 U.S. News and World Report rankings released Wednesday. The...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Aerospace engineering graduate student Gary Li won first place Thursday, March 3, at UCLA Grad Slam, a campus-wide competition where graduate students give three-minute presentations on their research. Li, who bested...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Sirikarn Surawanvifit, who earned her PhD in Chemical Engineering from UCLA in 2015 and her master’s in 2011, has won the award for best doctoral dissertation from the American Water Works Association. Surawanvifit’s...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Earlier this month, researchers at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) announced they had detected gravitational waves, confirming a prediction by Albert Einstein in his theory of general...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Grant will support research on engineering tumor-specific T cells for cancer immunotherapy Yvonne Chen, an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and...