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March 6, 2023 | Ellen Sletten Receives ACS Women Chemists Committee (WCC) 2023 Rising Star Award
Professor Ellen Sletten has been selected for a 2023 Rising Star Award by the American Chemical Society (ACS) Women Chemists Committee (WCC) for her work on new approaches to imaging and drug delivery. Sletten will receive the award at a reception following the WCC...
February 21, 2023 | Andrew Holbrook receives NSF early CAREER research award
Andrew Holbrook receives NSF early CAREER research award By Nicole Wilkins Professor Andrew Holbrook ndrew Holbrook, an assistant professor in the department of biostatistics at the UCLA Fielding School of Public...
February 8, 2023 | The role of alkali metal cations in the alkaline hydrogen evolution reaction
A collaborative research team led by Professor Xiangfeng Duan’s group, Professor Anastassia N. Alexandrova’s group in the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, and Professor Yu Huang’s group in the UCLA Department of Materials Science and Engineering has...
Post-Doctoral Fellow – The Quantum Light-Matter Cooperative
The Quantum Light-Matter Cooperative (Q-LMC) at UCLA is seeking a post-doctoral fellow with demonstrated experience in the fields of ultrafast and nonlinear optics, X-ray science, accelerator physics, and/or quantum electrodynamics. The fellow will join a highly...
January 18, 2023 | Internship provides undergrads hands-on experience in start-up company environment
Starting this fall over a dozen undergraduate students were selected for a new internship program where they have been matched with a current start-up company in CNSI’s Magnify incubator for a hands-on experience lasting the academic school year. The internship...
January 9, 2023 | Freezing Offers Potential Low-Energy, Low-Cost Method for Purifying Saltwater
As global climate change continues to decrease access to potable water, engineers and scientists are exploring new salt-removal technologies to turn brackish and ocean water into drinking water for large populations. However, the most common desalination methods —...
January 9, 2023 | Wavelength-multiplexed Diffractive Optical Processor Computes Hundreds of Linear Transformations in Parallel
Computing using light can potentially provide lower latency and reduced power consumption, benefiting from the parallelism that optical systems have. For example, a single optical processor can execute many distinct computational tasks simultaneously, such as the...
January 4, 2023 | Tiny implantable device designed by UCLA scientists helps kill cancer
Now, an interdisciplinary UCLA research team reports encouraging results in laboratory studies testing a tiny implantable device they call a SymphNode, which is designed to keep regulatory T cells in check only in the area around a tumor while summoning and...
January 4, 2023 | New Flexible Polymer Hydrogel Electrode Makes for Improved Bioelectronics
UCLA materials engineers designed a hydrogel electrode that could help advance bioelectronics that require direct tissue contact for health monitoring and therapies, such as pacemakers or high-sensitivity neural probes used to diagnose diseases including Alzheimer’s...
December 14, 2022 | UCLA-led research could lead to more durable solar cells
An international research collaboration led by UCLA has developed a way to use perovskite in solar cells while protecting it from the conditions that cause it to deteriorate. In a study published in Nature Materials, the scientists added small quantities of ions —...
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