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UCLA Chemical Engineers Launch Pilot Project to Turn Campus Waste into Hydrogen Fuel

Led by Dante Simonetti, an associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at UCLA Samueli, the team has been ...
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UCLA Bioengineer Jason Zhang Receives More Than $1 Million for Brain Cancer and Heart Disease Research

Jason Zhang, an assistant professor of bioengineering at the School of Engineering, has received two grants totaling $1.03 million to advance research into the cellular mechanisms underlying brain ...
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Dean’s Executive Board Member

Patrick Soon-Shiong Founder and Executive Chairman ImmunityBio Chairman and CEO NantHealth. Patrick Soon-Shiong, M.D. is an ...
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Science x AI Summit 2026 at UCLA

Join us for a full day of lively discussions and keynotes featuring prominent speakers, including UCLA mathematician and Fields Medalist Terrance Tao, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Barry Barish, Los ...
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Dean’s Corporate Advisory Board Member

Michael Molnar is a research and development fellow at The Dow Chemical Company within its Consumer Solutions business. In ...
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UCLA Samueli to Join Applied Materials’ EPIC Center to Accelerate Chip Innovation

The School of Engineering and Applied Materials Inc. announced today an agreement for the school to join as a research collaborator in the company’s Equipment and Process Innovation and ...
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UCLA Samueli Announces 2026 Alum of the Year

Each year, the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering honors alumni, faculty, students and other engineering leaders for outstanding achievements in their fields. Mukund Padmanabhan M.S. ’89, Ph.D. ’92 ...
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UCLA Computer Scientists Jason Cong and Jens Palsberg to Co-Lead 2 NSF Quantum Computing Institutes

Two computer scientists from the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering have been selected as co-principal investigators on separate quantum computing institutes funded by the National Science ...
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From Slime to Skincare: UCLA Engineering Senior Blends Passion for Chemistry and Communication

Growing up an only child in the suburbs outside Minneapolis, where there were very few Asian American kids at her school, Nicole Guan said being bored was her first problem to solve. She was a kid who ...
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New Process Turns Mixed Plastic Waste Directly Into Hydrogen Fuel Without Sorting

Plastic has become a ubiquitous part of modern life — in water bottles, shopping bags and car dashboards. But once discarded, it is among the hardest materials on earth to recycle. Most recycling ...
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UCLA Samueli School of Engineering Launches $125 Million Semiconductor Hub With Top Industry Leaders

A first-of-its-kind Semiconductor Hub at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering aims to accelerate research, strengthen U.S. leadership and support workforce development in energy-efficient AI–powered ...
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UCLA Computer Scientists, Mathematician Terence Tao Awarded Laude Moonshots Grant to Build AI System as Research Partner

A team of six UCLA faculty members spanning artificial intelligence, computer science and mathematics has received a $250,000 seed grant from the Laude Institute as part of its inaugural Moonshots ...