In Memoriam: Raymond Arthur Sholes
IN MEMORIAM RAYMOND ARTHUR SHOLES Raymond A. Sholes passed away peacefully with family by his side on January 17, 2021 at the age of 95. He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1948. He was a member of the Engineering honor fraternity Chi...
Wyoming Public Radio Episode Features C&EE’s Iman Mehdipour
Wyoming Public Radio recently published an episode and article about technology developed at UCLA called CO2Concrete, which uses flue gas from power plants to make cement. Iman Mehdipour, UCLA project scientist in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering...
C&EE Professor Xiaoyu “Rayne” Zheng Receives NSF CAREER Award
C&EE's Professor Xiaoyu “Rayne” Zheng has received a National Science Foundation CAREER award, the agency’s highest honor for faculty members in the early stages of their teaching and research careers. Read about the award and Professor Zheng's research: UCLA...
UCLA Hosts Lifelines Webinar Commemorating 50th Anniversary of 1971 San Fernando Earthquake
UCLA Samueli School of Engineering hosted a webinar on the 50th anniversary of the 1971 San Fernando Earthquake, enabling earthquake engineers and civic leaders to come together virtually and share ways to increase infrastructure and societal resilience. Read the...
CEE Professor Jonathan Stewart Featured in Los Angeles Times
CEE Professor Jonathan Stewart was featured in today's front-page story of the Los Angeles Times, which discussed the Sylmar/San Fernando Earthquake that shook Los Angeles fifty years ago. Read the full article: 50 years ago, the Sylmar earthquake shook L.A., and...
C&EE Professor Henry Burton Wins 2021 UC Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives Award
UCLA will host two of 15 MRPI projects, with civil and environmental engineering professor Henry Burton being the lead principal investigator on California Informatics for Equitable Disaster Response and Recovery. Professor Burton will lead a project to develop better...
UCLA Research Team Proposes Strategy to Reduce Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere
A UCLA team has proposed a concept called single-step carbon sequestration and storage, or sCS^2, in a paper published in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. It involves extracting carbon dioxide from seawater, which would enable seawater to absorb more...
Engineering Faculty Part of UCLA Team that Wins Nearly $1 Million to Tackle Rising Heat in Los Angeles
The Heat Resilient L.A. project consists of UCLA faculty members, including UCLA Samueli School of Engineering professors. The team has received a $956,000 award in the Sustainable LA Grand Challenge Sandpit competition. Read the full article: Engineering Faculty Part...
Daily Bruin recognizes C&EE Professor Jennifer Jay
Daily Bruin columnist Phoebe Chen recently published a new article in her Professors 101 Series about C&EE's Professor Jennifer Jay! It includes Professor Jay's experiences in academia, her thoughts on sustainability, and advice for avoiding burnout and staying...