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2018 student highlights
December 19, 2018

The UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering is home to 9,000 engineering and computer science stud...

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Hardware-software co-design approach could make neural networks less power hungry
December 19, 2018

A team led by the University of California San Diego has developed a neuroinspired hardware-software...

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2018 Jacobs School highlights
December 18, 2018

A lot happened at the Jacobs School of Engineering this year. Revisit some of our key research ...

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UCSD Battery Startup Ateios Receives Funding for Placing in November Pitch Competition
December 13, 2018

UCSD Startup Ateios was among the three finalists chosen to receive a collective amount of $150,000 ...

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Switching to a Home Battery Won't Help Save the World from Climate Change
December 11, 2018

Home energy storage systems might save you money, but under current policies, they would also often ...

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Graduate student's steerable brain catheter wins big at inventors competition
December 10, 2018

Gopesh Tilvawala, a graduate student in the UC San Diego Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engi...

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Undergraduate team wins 2nd place at global synthetic biology competition
December 10, 2018

A team of 11 undergraduate students from UC San Diego earned second place out of 250 teams from arou...

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Engineers develop 3D-printed metamaterials that change mechanical properties under magnetic fields
December 8, 2018

A team of researchers have developed an entirely new class of metamaterials that can nearly instantl...

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Scientists cut main heart disease risk locus out of DNA by genome editing
December 6, 2018

Over the past decade we’ve learned that billions of people carry a mysterious specter in their...

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Combined economic and technological evaluation of battery energy storage for grid applications
December 3, 2018

A new study offers a combined chemistry-and-economics approach that should make it easier to identif...

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To detect new odors, fruit fly brains improve on a well-known computer algorithm
December 3, 2018

It might seem like fruit flies would have nothing in common with computers, but new research from th...

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Multifunctional Non-Equiatomic High Entropy Alloys
December 3, 2018

In a synergistic effort to combine high entropy alloy design with martensite design, Professor Kenne...

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