First UCLA Students to Receive the National Cadet Research Award from the U.S. Air Force
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout Two students of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science are recipients of the prestigious Cadet Research Award from the United States Air Force, making them the first UCLA...
Electrical Engineering Professor Receives Prestigious PECASE Award
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Aydogan Ozcan, associate professor of electrical engineering and bioengineering, has received the country’s highest honor for science and engineering researchers who are at an early stage of their careers. Ozcan was one of...
UCLA Engineering Researchers Help Develop Complete Map of Mouse Genetic Variation
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout For decades, laboratory mice have been widely used in research aimed at understanding which genes are involved in various illnesses. But actual variations in past gene sequences of mice were...
Bioengineering Professor Receives NIH Director’s New Innovator Award
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin Andrea M. Kasko, assistant professor of bioengineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has received a 2011 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award from the National...
Rutgers, UCLA Awarded $2 Million To Develop ‘Intelligent’ Technology That Reduces Urban Traffic Congestion, Air Pollution
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Three-year study funded by National Science Foundation aims to integrate today’s largely disconnected traffic management systems The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a grant worth nearly $2 million to Rutgers...
UCLA Engineering Faculty Highlighted in Article on New UC Discovery “Proof of Concept” Grants
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Proving a concept and leaping the `valley of death` By Wallace Ravven An instrument to quickly detect traumatic brain injury, a vaccine to save unborn calves from a deadly bacteria and a technology to clean up grimy water...
Snow Days: Hydrology of Mountain Watersheds Course Takes Classroom into the Field
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin Southern California imports between 80 to 90 percent of its water from outside the metropolitan region. And much of it comes from the Sierra Nevada. So to learn right at the source, UCLA students in the...
Di Carlo Receives DARPA Young Faculty Award
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Dino Di Carlo, an assistant professor of bioengineering, was awarded a Young Faculty Award (YFA) from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The goal of the DARPA YFA program is to identify and engage...
UC-Developed Technology Saving Consumers Trillions of Watt-Hours, Millions of Dollars
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]A University of California technology that significantly reduces the amount of energy wasted by chips in computers, mobile phones and other electronic devices has recently passed the trillion watt-hour milestone in energy...