Window glass, at the microscopic level, shows a strange mix of properties. Like a liquid, its atoms are disordered, but like a solid, its atom are rigid, so a force applied to one atom causes all of them to move. It’s an analogy physicists use to describe a quantum state called a “quantum spin-glass,” in […]
Amid a nationwide youth mental health crisis, mental health providers are trying to improve their understanding of which children are at risk for suicide or self-harm so providers can intervene earlier. Many risk-prediction models that are designed to identify children who have a future risk are based on incomplete data, which limits their accuracy. Now, […]
UCLA admissions of California students increased 4.7% for fall 2023 over last year, including 163 more freshmen and 475 more transfer students. Overall, UCLA offered admission to nearly 12,800 high school seniors and 6,180 transfer applicants. The campus also saw robust growth in admission of students from groups who have been historically underrepresented on campus, […]
UCLA has received a commitment of $4.1 million to the department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences — the largest gift in the department’s history — from adjunct professor Lawrence “Larry” Harding Jr.| In honor of Harding’s late father, the gift will establish the Lawrence Harding Endowed Chair. The chair will be held by a professor […]
Male fruit flies don’t usually like each other. Socially, they reject their fellow males and zero in on the females they discern via chemical receptors – or so scientists thought. New research from Cornell biologists suggests the fruit fly’s visual system, not just chemical receptors, are deeply involved with their social behaviors. The work sheds […]
An academic from the University of Sheffield is set to help the government boost the UK semiconductor sector, as part of a new advisory panel that held its first meeting last week (3 August 2023). Professor John Goodenough from the University’s Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering – a world-leader in semiconductor R&D – is […]
The Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science is pleased to announce the recruitment of 11 new faculty this year. Three of those individuals joined the college for the Fall 2023 semester: Alex Conway, Sainyam Galhotra and Daniel Susser. The remaining faculty, Saikat Dutta, Kuan Fang, Tanya Goyal, Michael Kim, Wei Chiu […]
Jack Freed, the Frank and Robert Laughlin Professor of Physical Chemistry Emeritus in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), has received two grants totaling $7.8 million over five years from the National Institutes of Health to use electron-spin resonance (ESR) for the benefit of public health. Freed has pioneered the development of ESR, a […]
