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Scientific American Names Steven Chavez to Early-Career Honors List
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (219+ words) Steven Chavez, an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has been selected as one of Scientific American's inaugural class of Young American Scientists for improving the effectiveness of catalysts used in industrial…...
UCLA Engineering Dean Alissa Park Receives ACS Garvan-Olin Medal Honoring Distinguished Leadership by Women Chemists and Chemical Engineers
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (221+ words) Courtesy of American Chemical Society Alissa Park (second from left) receives the 2026 Francis P. Garvan-John M. Olin Medal from the American Chemical Society Ah-Hyung "Alissa" Park, the Ronald and Valerie Sugar Dean of the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has received the…...
UCLA-Led Team Discovers Metallic Material with Record Thermal Conductivity
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (207+ words) Theta-phase tantalum nitride conducts heat nearly three times better than copper, opening new pathways for cooling electronics and AI hardware A sequence showing how thermal energy, carried by electrons, spreads through theta-phase tantalum nitride after the metallic material is struck…...