UCLA researchers are looking to wind power to meet the increasing need for alternate and renewable energy sources. An $80,000 California Energy Commission grant to research wind-generated electricity has been awarded to electrical engineering professor A.V. Balakrishnan and graduate student in electrical engineering Ken Mok. New interest in wind-generated power stems in part from Sept. […]
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Nine Bruins compete in regional programming contest
UCLA sent three teams of three people ““ UCLA Blue, UCLA Gold and UCLA Bruins ““ to participate in a regional computer programming competition Saturday in Riverside. The Association for Computing Machinery’s International Collegiate Programming Contest’s Southern California regional, sponsored by IBM and hosted by Riverside Community College, pitted UCLA’s three teams against 56 other […]
Tracing out a scientific discovery
The Fowler Museum of Cultural History’s “Ecce Homology” is one exhibit that has a science behind the art. A late addition to the Fowler’s multi-faceted exhibition called “From the Verandah: Art, Buddhism, Presence,” “Ecce Homology” uses Asia’s staple crop to explore the genomic relationships that give form and function to both humans and rice. But […]
New security technologies presented at UCLA symposium
As homeland security becomes increasingly important, UCLA researchers are developing technologies to protect civil infrastructures such as highways and water supplies. Researchers presented their technologies during a homeland security symposium hosted Friday by the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. There is a notion that technology develops independently from public policy issues, but […]
Bark beetles gobble up nutrients from trees
An insect no bigger than a peanut is partly responsible for the destruction of trees hundreds of years old in the Lake Arrowhead area. The bark beetle, native to the area, has been taking advantage of trees weakened by drought and high temperatures. Bark beetles burrow into a host tree and sap nutrients from it. […]
Program aims to help nurses quit smoking
Nurses nationwide looking to quit smoking will soon have a resource available to them thanks to a UCLA School of Nursing professor and a $1.8 million grant from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Professor Linda Sarna is launching the “Tobacco-Free Nurses” program along with Stella Aguinaga Bialous, president of Tobacco Policy International. In addition, Dr. […]
Forum to cover U.S. involvement in world
The UCLA International Institute, along with the United Nations Foundation, will host a forum on campus today about U.S. foreign policy issues for the Los Angeles community. The debate, “The People Speak: America Debates its Role in the World,” will feature Bruce Herschensohn, who was an aide to former President Nixon and former U.S. Rep. […]