UCLA Undergraduate Student Team Wins NASA TechLeap Prize
Students in the Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences Department are finalists in the NASA Techleap competition to build a universal interface between satellites and their payloads.
Awards
Fulbright Awardee Connects with Her Roots Working With the Vietnamese Deaf community
Computational & Systems Biology undergraduate researcher Elise Ỷ-lan Tran has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student Program scholarship to visit Vietnam to conduct research aimed at assisting the Deaf community.
Zvi Bern Elected to National Academy of Sciences
The UCLA professor joins 120 other new members in 2024.
Creating a new model for heat wave trends
Assistant Professor of Statistics and the Environment Karen McKinnon earned the National Science Foundation’s CAREER award for her work studying the trends in the intensity of extreme heat events.
Professor David Saltzberg Wins American Physical Society’s Instrumentation Award
Saltzberg was honored for his work on detection of high energy neutrinos using radio waves.
Professor Alvine Kamaha Wins the Prestigious Edward A. Bouchet Award
Kamaha was honored for her research work improving the sensitivity of dark matter detectors and her dedication to minority education in science.
UCLA receives $1 million NSF grant to develop quantum sensors
Researchers aim to measure and understand atmospheric and aerosol chemistries that standard atmospheric sensors cannot detect
David Leibrandt Wins Moore Foundation Award to Push the Boundaries of Particle Physics
The work supports UCLA’s ongoing leadership in Quantum Science and Technology