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Year: 2009

Carbon Emissions Converted to Gasoline Alternative

By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA researchers engineer bacteria to turn carbon dioxide into liquid fuel By Matthew Chin Global climate change has prompted efforts to drastically reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas produced by burning...

UCLA Engineering Awards 2009

By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Alumnus of the Year – Paul Baran MS '59 Paul Baran, recipient of the 2008 National Medial for Technology and Innovation, is best known as the inventor of packet switching while at the RAND Corporation in 1960. Baran...

Researchers Decode Cholesterol Drug Synthesis

By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout Researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have for the first time successfully reconstituted in the laboratory the enzyme responsible for producing the...

Realistic Human Simulation

By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]From simulating real-world objects, to creating comprehensive simulations of reality In his distinguished career in computer science, Demetri Terzopoulos has evolved from simulating real-world objects, to creating...

K-12 Students learn from UCLA Engineers

By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Middle and High School Students in Los Angeles Learn from UCLA Science and Engineering Experts In an effort to improve science education at the middle and high school levels as well as raise students’ awareness and...

Clean Tech Leaders

By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Stimulus funds help educate next generation of clean-tech leaders So she created it — and, working with about 20 other professors, won support for it: $3 million in stimulus funding via a highly competitive grant from the...

UCLA Engineering Adds New Faculty for 2009-10

By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]This year, six talented researchers and teachers have joined the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. These new faculty members bring a diverse range of expertise in several emerging fields....