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Veronica Santos part of team awarded $3M in ONR funding to develop a dexterous, underwater robotic hand with tactile feedback
Above image: Dexterous underwater robot developed by RE2 Robotics for handling dangerous devices. (RE2 Robotics.) UCLA MAE Associate Professor Veronica Santos, along with her University of Washington ME collaborator Professor Jonathan Posner, was awarded part of $3M...
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Chih-Ming Ho’s artificial intelligence-parabolic response surface platform helps researchers to identify faster, more effective drug combination regimens to treat tuberculosis
By Enrique Rivero | UCLA Newsroom link Tuberculosis is a potentially deadly though curable disease. Each year about 10 million people develop active cases, and 1.6 million people die. In addition, about 1.7 billion people around the world are infected with TB...
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UCLA students touch space with a microgravity experiment
Magnetic pump built by Bruin Space launches on Blue Origin reusable rocket By Emmanuel Masongson | UCLA Newsroom link It took only 10 minutes and a ride aboard the Blue Origin New Shepard reusable rocket for 11 students in the Bruin Spacecraft Group to make history....
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Dylan Dickstein: Flight is in the blood for AE Ph.D. student and aspiring astronaut
Unsurprisingly, the majority of recently selected astronauts have extensive flying experience. Whether learned in the armed forces or at a privately-owned flight school, understanding how to translate human mechanics to those of an aircraft is an essential skill for...
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Yide Wang wins 2nd Best Poster at the Energy Storage Technologies and Applications Conference
Yide Wang, ME Ph.D candidate in Professor Richard Wirz's Research Group, won 2nd Best Poster at the Energy Storage Technologies and Applications Conference hosted in UC Riverside, April 11-12, 2019, for his presentation on "Performance and Cost Analysis of...
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Kathryn McCarthy, MS ’86, PhD ’89, elected as member of the NAE
Kathryn McCarthy, MS '86, PhD '89, was elected as a 2019 member of the National Academy of Engineering She is Vice-President, R&D for the Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, and received her UCLA degrees in Nuclear Engineering. Her advisor was Mohamed Abdou. From her...
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