technology

Aerospace engineering graduate student Gary Li won first place last week at UCLA Grad Slam, a campuswide competition where graduate students give three-minute presentations on their research.

A new report by the UCLA Luskin Center for innovation highlights quality mentoring as a key strategy for reducing inequality.

Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube, returned to UCLA Anderson, where she got her M.B.A. in 1998, to talk about her career and share her insights on how to succeed in the tech world.

Public policy professor John Villasenor breaks down the background, key points and possible consequences of the iPhone legal dispute.

John Villasenor notes that in the battle between Apple and the U.S. government, the ever-accelerating pace of change in technology makes applying older laws a murky proposition.

UCLA scientists have developed a computational model of the human airway that may someday help people who suffer from sleep apnea.

The Technology Fellows Program lets graduate students in the life and physical sciences learn the ins and outs of technology transfer.

A team from the UCLA Orthopaedic Biomechanics Laboratory is advancing the prevention and treatment of ACL injuries, which are skyrocketing.

The six UCLA undergraduates are vying for top honors in the inaugural FuturizeX Student Challenge, a competition that aims to inspire the next generation of innovators.

Jayathi Murthy, who became dean on Jan. 1, said she intends to increase the student roster by 1,000 and add 50 full-time faculty over the next several years.

A Ph.D. student at UCLA has created a startup with a friend that offers a geolocation-based app to assist instructors with taking class attendance while helping students keep up with deadlines. But there’s a twist.

Terahertz waves can be used to analyze plastics, clothing, semiconductors and works of art without damaging them and to investigate the formation of stars, among other applications.

UCLA scientists are working at the forefront of technological advances in an era of personalized health care treatment and research that challenges our imaginations.

Innovative transportation services such as car sharing, bike sharing, and transportation network companies like Uber and Lyft are changing mobility for millions of people.

With help from faculty and students at UCLA and Waseda University in Tokyo, UCLA professor Michael Emmerich has developed and launched an app to teach students to read premodern calligraphy used in classical Japanese texts.

Psychologist and UCLA researcher Yalda Uhls writes that more important than limiting ‘screen time’ is guiding children and young adults to utilize technology to improve their lives.

The platform will be designed to use information about users’ previous asthma attacks to alert them when conditions might be right for another one.

UCLA Anderson professor Shlomo Benartzi writes in the Wall Street Journal that seeing frequent updates in the palm of your hand can lead to overreacting to short-term losses.

Urban planning professor Michael Storper chronicles a history of choices that created a prosperity gap between the Bay Area and Southern California.

A sold-out crowd at UCLA’s IDEAS campus got a visionary glimpse into the future of space exploration Friday at the first of a series of events hosted by FuturizeX, a campuswide initiative being launched by UCLA and XPRIZE.

For the last 18 years, UCLA’s Lisa Snyder has been bringing to life the bygone glory of a true architectural, social and cultural wonder — the Chicago World’s Fair.

The new cell construction extends the cell’s effective life in air by more than 10 times, with only a marginal loss of efficiency converting sunlight to electricity.

Though the deformities are almost imperceptible to the human eye, the super–slow-motion flowing effect limits the maximum size of large glass screens.

Professor George Geis writes in Zócalo that he expects the company to resume acquiring small companies when the boom-bust cycle rebalances.

Professor Bhagwan Chowdhry writes that Narendra Modi should leverage his country’s connections to Silicon Valley to make it easier for educated IT professionals to return to India and help implement the Digital India initiative.