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Stick-on Gel Offers New Way to Treat and Monitor Plants
A stick-on gel for plants could offer a simple, safe and targeted way to treat diseases and pests. It can be loaded with substances, such as medicines, and applied directly onto a plant to deliver those materials into its tissues. In tests, the gel was used to clear a plant's bacterial infection...
New Conversational AI Tool Uses Trusted Medical Protocols to Help People Decide When to Seek Care
A new chatbot could reliably help people decide what to do about their symptoms — and do so based on guidance that is both medically sound and easy to understand. Designed to improve self-triage, it could help reduce unnecessary hospital visits and ensure that those who need care seek it soone...
Six New Projects Are Empowering Early-Career Engineering and Computer Science Faculty
Six teams from the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering have been awarded funding to accelerate interdisciplinary research collaborations that include an early-career faculty member. The big idea is to empower early-career faculty to build interdisciplinary research collaborations to the p...
MRI and Augmented Reality for Better Back Pain Surgery Wins at Research Expo 2026
Mechanical engineering Ph.D. student Songyuan Lu won the grand prize at this year’s Research Expo, where more than 150 students presented their research posters across the six departments at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering. Lu’s work focuses on computer-assisted surgery usi...
AI-enhanced Microscopy Produces Crisp, Real-time Video Inside Live Cells
Using artificial intelligence, engineers have developed a new way to watch the inner workings of living cells in real time. The process both captures images that are twice as sharp as conventional microscopes and is fast enough to play as smooth video.
These Engineers Are Working on a Better Asteroid Warning System
Despite all the excitement Hollywood offers with blockbuster films about saving Earth from disasters like asteroids, the truth is that saving the planet in those scenarios involves math...
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UC San Diego Engineering Dean to Give Keynote at RoboUniverse San Diego
December 9, 2015
Albert P. Pisano, dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California, San Dieg...
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