U.S. Department of Transportation Awards $1.2 Million for Sustainable Cement Alternatives
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has awarded a three-year, $1.2 million grant to the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science to investigate...
Leaving a Strong Legacy, UCLA Engineering Dean Vijay K. Dhir to Retire in 2015
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Bill Kisliuk UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science Dean Vijay K. Dhir announced today that he will step down as dean on June 30, 2015, after leading the school for more than 13 years. Dhir will...
UCLA Team Receives $1.3 Million for Zero-Net Energy Building Materials, Software Tools
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin A UCLA research team has received a $1.3 million grant from the California Energy Commission (CEC) to identify new materials, methodologies and to develop new software tools for zero-net energy (ZNE)...
Dunn Elected to World Academy of Ceramics
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Bruce S. Dunn, the Nippon Sheet Glass Company Professor of Material Science and Engineering at UCLA, has been elected to the World Academy of Ceramics in recognition of his outstanding achievements in sol-gel materials and...
UCLA Leads the Way in Modern Data Storage Systems with a New Center
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]In September the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science launched a new center to push the frontiers in emerging data storage systems and to create highly-trained workforce of graduate students and...
UCLA Engineers Develop New Metabolic Pathway to More Efficiently Convert Sugars Into Biofuels
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin UCLA chemical engineering researchers have created a new synthetic metabolic pathway for breaking down glucose that could lead to a 50 percent increase in the production of biofuels. The new pathway is...
Researchers Develop New Type of Fluorescent Camera for Blood Diagnostics, Brain Mapping
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Inspired by wireless technology, FIRE speeds up biological imaging process By Matthew Chin Fluorescence imaging is the most widely used method for analyzing the molecular composition of biological specimens. Target...
UCLA Engineering Team Lands Major Air Force Grant to Study Plasma Surfaces
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin What happens at tiny scales when an electrically charged hot gas hits new advanced materials? An interdisciplinary team of UCLA Engineers has won an $890,000 grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific...
UCLA Engineers Develop a Stretchable, Foldable Transparent Electronic Display
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin Imagine an electronic display nearly as clear as a window, or a curtain that illuminates a room, or a smartphone screen that doubles in size, stretching like rubber. Now imagine all of these being made from...