Author Archives: Edward Chiao

Interim Dean Vijay Dhir may engineer success for UCLA school

UCLA’s Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science hasn’t had a permanent dean since June 30, 2001 ““ and it shows in the School’s national rankings. The search is still on for a permanent dean, but in the meantime, the school’s overall ranking has fallen from 20th to 22nd among engineering schools as ranked […]

Guatemalan twins delay trip back home

Formerly conjoined twins Maria de Jesus and Maria Teresa had their expected trip home delayed because of “wound-care issues,” according to hospital officials. The girls were expected to fly home to Guatemala this week, but doctors at Mattel Children’s Hospital are keeping Maria de Jesus hospitalized to allow more time to recover from surgery to […]

Einstein’s secret FBI file inspires new book

Albert Einstein, the greatest scientist of the 20th century, was a wanted man ““ by the FBI. From 1933 to 1955, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI compiled “derogatory information” in an effort to undermine the physicist’s influence and destroy his reputation, according to Fred Jerome, a science journalist and author of a new book titled “The […]

Davis addresses workers' rights, financial aid at UCLA

Gov. Gray Davis took his re-election campaign to UCLA on Tuesday afternoon to speak at a union-sponsored rally in support of workers’ rights at UCLA and across the state. Davis met with employees of the Associated Students of UCLA in LuValle Commons and De Neve Plaza, speaking to over a hundred local union members and […]

Scientists at UCLA create stronger nano-sized fiber

Researchers at UCLA have taken an old method from a common spider and spun it into a new idea for creating stronger materials. The idea was to copy the approach spiders use in spinning a web and to apply this to a method for creating stronger nano-sized fiber materials, according to Thomas Hahn, mechanical and […]

Locals, researchers partner up to protect reefs

The health of several coral reefs around the world has improved over the past few years, but overfishing still poses a major threat to reefs, according to a recently released study by the Reef Check program at UCLA. Reef Check, a non-profit organization started in 1996 by UCLA visiting professor Greg Hodgson, at the Institute […]