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Year: 2012

Two UCLA Engineering Professors Named AAAS Fellows

By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Two UCLA Engineering professors, Panagiotis D. Christofides and  Ali H. Sayed, were selected as fellows by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest general scientific society and...

In Memoriam: David Okrent

By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin David Okrent, UCLA professor emeritus of mechanical and aerospace engineering, who made pioneering contributions in nuclear reactor design and safety, died Friday, Dec. 14. He was 90. Okrent received his...

New Energy-efficient Computer Memory Using Magnetic Materials

By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]MeRAM is up to 1,000 times more energy-efficient than current technologies By Matthew Chin | December 14, 2012 By using electric voltage instead of a flowing electric current, researchers from UCLA's Henry Samueli School...

Got Food Allergies? Test Your Meal Using a Cell Phone

By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin Are you allergic to peanuts and worried there might be some in that cookie? Now you can find out using a rather unlikely source: your cell phone. A team of researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of...

Engineering Professor Receives NIH Director’s Pioneer Award

By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Yi Tang, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has received an NIH Director's Pioneer Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)....

New Faculty Join UCLA Engineering

By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has recently added two new faculty members: Wentai Liu, professor of bioengineering, who joined in Winter 2012; and Wei Wang, professor of computer science....

Bioengineering Students take the Q-Path to Success

By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]The five-member team takes first place in NIH competition. Prize includes $10,000. By Matthew Chin It started out as an undergraduate senior project. It ended up an award-winning design for a cancer diagnostic test. A team...