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UCLA Engineering in the News - 2004-05 Highlights

KPCC Public Radio profiles the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science as it celebrates its 60th anniversary - June 22, 2005.
ABC News, Science Central reports on bioengineering professor Carlo Montemagno and his team, who have developed incredibly tiny, self-assembling machines that could one day help keep spacecraft on course during extended missions - May 17, 2005.
The New York Times features researchers in the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing who are linking more than 100 tiny sensors, robots, cameras, and computers in the San Jacinto Mountains - May 10, 2005.
Bioengineering professor Ben Wu’s discovery of a natural molecule that can be used to heal fractures and generate new bone growth is featured in The Washington Times - April 26, 2005.
UCLA engineering librarian Anita Colby talks with Forbes about the 1965 issue of Electronics magazine in which future Intel Corp. co-founder Gordon Moore declared the integrated circuit was the future of the electronics and predicted the rate of improvement for the semiconductor industry - April 15, 2005.
Discovery features bioengineering professor Carlo Montemagno and his team of researchers who have built tiny self-assembling machines that even grow their own muscles from cells taken from living animals - February 4, 2005.
Science covers the research of materials scientist Yang Yang, who is turning organics into high-density, low-cost memory technology by using gold nanoparticles suspended in a simple polymer matrix - December 17, 2004.
As the Internet turns 35, computer science professor Leonard Kleinrock reflects on its past and its future for the Christian Science Monitor - December 2, 2004.
The world’s first silicon laser, created by electrical engineering professor Bahram Jalali, is featured in Nature. It’s a critical step in the effort to build computers that process information using light, rather than electricity - October 25, 2004.
Wired highlights the early research in hydrogen-powered cars at UCLA, featuring a group of former students who modified an AMC Gremlin to run on hydrogen in the 1970s - September 27, 2004.
Computer scientist Deborah Estrin, director of the UCLA Center for Embedded Networked Sensing, talks with Business Week about the promise of sensors networks, the work that needs to be done, and concerns about funding for innovative research - September 1, 2004.
In a History Channel episode of Modern Marvels, civil and environmental engineering professor Jonathan Stewart helps to explain what went wrong when the Baldwin Hills Dam suddenly gave way - August 31, 2004.
Technology Research News reports on experiments conducted at UCLA in which a team of researchers, including electrical engineering professor Eli Yablonovitch, succeeded in flipping a single electron spin upside down in an ordinary commercial transistor chip - August 11, 2004.
In a column for Computerworld magazine, mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Rajit Gadh offers a crash course on radio frequency identification (RFID) technology - August 11, 2004.
Coverage by KNBC-Channel 4, KMEX-Channel 34 and KVEA-Channel 52 of an earthquake test in Sherman Oaks showcases the work of civil engineering professor John Wallace and his team - July 28, 2004.