For his entire 45-year professional career, including more than 30 at UCLA, Enrique Ainsworth has been a much-admired innovator, leader, mentor and champion for increasing diversity in STEM fields by designing evidence-based academic support for engineering students from groups that are underrepresented
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UCLA Computer Scientist George Varghese Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
George Varghese, who holds the Jonathan B. Postel Chair in Networking at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, was elected Thursday to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s
UCLA Engineering Students Receive 2022 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Fourteen UCLA Samueli undergraduate and graduate students have received the prestigious 2022 Graduate Research Fellowshipfrom the National Science Foundation. The three-year fellowship program recognizes and supports outstanding students
UCLA Engineering 2021 Professional Achievement Awards Recipients
Every year, the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering selects and recognizes outstanding achievements by a number of its alumni, faculty members and students who have excelled in various fields. These awardees are honored at a formal school ceremony.
In Memoriam: Oscar Stafsudd, Jr., Professor Emeritus and Micro-Optoelectronics Expert
Oscar Stafsudd, Jr. ’59, M.S. ’61, Ph.D. ’67, a professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, died April 14 at the age of 85. For more than 50 years at UCLA, Stafsudd was widely recognized by students and peers
UCLA Engineering 2021 Service and Research Excellence Awards Recipients
Every year, the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering selects and recognizes outstanding achievements by a number of its alumni, faculty members and students who have excelled in various fields. These awardees are honored at a formal school ceremony.
UCLA Engineering 2021 Award Recipients
Every year, the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering selects and recognizes outstanding achievements by a number of its alumni, faculty members and students who have excelled in various fields. These awardees are honored at a formal school ceremony. Due to the pandemic, the in-person award presentation
Finding Inspiration in the Night Sky with Alumna Keji Sojobi
When Keji Sojobi ’07 looked up in the night sky as a child, she found herself struck by the vastness and mystery that existed in the darkness. “I think I found it sacred, even though I wouldn’t have known to use that word — that there is this
NASA Astronaut Megan McArthur ’93 Shares Insights on Twice Journey to Space
Megan McArthur’s stellar career trajectory has taken her from piloting submarines in a campus pool as an engineering student to piloting the SpaceX Crew-2 mission as a NASA astronaut. She shared her inspiring journey
Turning Wastewater Into a Resource: A Graduate Student’s Solution to Climate Change
These days, civil and environmental engineering doctoral student Kevin Clack spends his time investigating innovative ways to improve water resilience in arid metropolitan regions
Internet Pioneer Leonard Kleinrock Named Computer History Museum Fellow
Leonard Kleinrock, a distinguished professor of computer science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering and a towering figure in the creation of the internet, has been named a 2022 Fellow of the Computer History Museum.
UCLA to Host Regional Artificial Intelligence Program in Collaboration with Break Through Tech
UCLA will be the first public university to host a Break Through Tech AI hub — part of a national program designed to teach artificial intelligence to a greater diversity of students — bringing AI education to











