August, 2007: The EXSOD scale observation monitor is successfully tested at the Zuckerberg Water Research Institute (Ben-Gurion University, Israel).

High recovery brackish water desalination process developed in collaboration with MWD.

The WaTeR Center co-sponsored and co-organized the 2008 International Congress on Membranes (ICOM) which will be held in Honolulu, Hawaii, July 12-18, 2008.  Details are posted at: North American Membrane Society.

WaTeR Center students presented over a dozen a series of research papers in two special University Sessions: (a) RO Analysis and Modeling Session, and (b) RO Membrane Process Development and Novel Membranes, at the CA-NV AWWA Spring Conference, Hollywood, CA, April 21-24 (2008).

Dr. Cohen was an invited speaker at the UC System-Wide Technology Transfer Forum on Clean Technology, UCOP, April 3, 2008, Burlingame, California.  His presentation focused on "the ., The Water-Energy Nexus: Smart Water systems: Monitoring, Process Control, Membranes, and Nanotechnology for Advanced Water Treatment and Desalination,”

Dr. Cohen gave an invited presentation on “Advanced Water Technology Research and Opportunities for Technology Transfer,” at the  Caltech/MIT Entrepreneur Forum, Caltech, March 8, 2008

Soo-Young Lee - Vice President/Business Strategy Team for KOLON visited the Water Center on January 31, 2008.

William Clark - Special Advisor to the President, Sekisui Chemical Co. visited the UCLA WaTeR Center on January 30, 2008.

John Norton (Senior Engineer with MWH) gave a seminar on "Integrated Water Systems: Research versus Reality", January 25, 2008.

Mr. Walter Wang, President and CEO of JM Eagle gave a seminar on CEO and President of JM Eagle gave a seminar on "What Good Is Clean Water if There’s No Reliable Way to Transport It?" at UCLA to about 200 of our undergraduate and graduate students on November 30, 2007.

WaTeR Center team visited the California DWR, San Joaquin District, on Sept 10, 2007 to discuss research progress and tour the Red Rock Ranch Field research facility.

California DWR team (Dr. Fawzi Karajeh, Nancy King and Jennifer Wong) visited the UCLA WaTeR Center (June 18, 2007) to review Proposition 50 funded research projects.

Professor Francesc Giralt (URV, Catalunya) visited UCLA in June 2007 to as part of a collaborative research effort with the WaTeR Center on RO plant control and membrane module hydrodynamic studies.

A delegation from the Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Victoria University, Deaking University and Melbourne University  visited the UCLA WaTeR Center on March 19, 2007.

Dr. Chen I-Ming of the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore visited the WaTeR Center on March 2, 2007

The WaTeR Center workshop on water systems research was held at UCLA on February 23, 2007.

Dr. Cohen gave an invited presentation on high recovery brackish water desalination at the ECI Conference on Water Treatment and Reuse II which was held at Tomar, Portugal, February 8-11, 2007.

Richard Zhu has been awarded the 2008-2009 "Channabasappa Memorial Scholarship from the International Desalination Association in support of his research on the development of a theoretical/modeling framework for minimizing the cost of water desalination.

Nancy Lin, Gregory Lewis  and Myung-man Kim and Y. Cohen received a Poster Award for their research on “High Performance Surface Nano-Structured RO/NF Membranes,”  International Congress on Membranes and Membrane Processes (ICOM 2008), July 12-18, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Myung-man, R. Rallo, E. Lyster and Y. Cohen received a Poster Presentation Award for the work on "Optical Monitoring and Real-Time Digital Image Analysis of Mineral Scale Formation on RO Membranes,” presented at the

International Congress on Membranes and Membrane Processes (ICOM 2008), July 12-18, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Dr. Y. Cohen received the Ann C. Rosenfield Distinguished Community Partnership Prize (2008)

Anditya Rahardianto, Brian McCool and Y. Cohen received a First Place Poster Award for their research work on "High recovery inland water desalination via RO integrated with accelerated chemical demineralization – Laboratory and Pilot studies," presented in the RO Membrane Process Development and Novel Membranes Session, 2008 CA-NV AWWA Spring Conference, Hollywood, CA, April 21-24 (2008)

Mike Uchymiak has been awarded the 2007-2008 "Channabasappa  Memorial Scholarship from the International Desalination Association in support of his research on real-time mineral scale monitoring and feed-flow reversal operation of membrane desalination.

Hsiao-Yu (Nancy) Lin was awarded the first NWRI-Southern California Salinity Coalition Fellowship for her work on the development of fouling resistant RO membranes.

The Global Water Intelligence and Global Water Report Publishers awarded a Global Water Awards 2007 Distinction under the Innovation of the Year Award category to Dr. E. M.V. Hoek for the development of a thin film nanocomposite RO membrane

Dr. Myung-man Kim was awarded the North American Society (NAMS) 2007 Travel Award.

Andi Rahardianto received the 2007 NAMS Elias Klein Award.

Eric Lyster was an invited speaker at the First Annual NWRI Graduate Fellowship Research Conference, April 12, 2007, Orange County, Orange, California.  He presented a talk on "Concentration Polarization and Mineral Scaling in Membrane Desalination".

Dr. Cohen was a plenary speaker at the 233rd ACS National Spring Meeting in Chicago at the Division of Sustainability of Energy, Food, and Water Session on "Advanced Membrane Technology for Water Reuse".  He will speak on ""High recovery membrane RO desalination of brackish water: Opportunities and limitations" (March 27, 2007).