These Engineers Are Working on a Better Asteroid Warning System
April 14, 2026
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. A lot of math. Fortunately, Jacobs School of Engineering researchers such as professors Thomas Bewley and Aaron Rosengren, and doctoral student Benjamin Hanson, are at the forefront of protecting us from this kind of potential disaster. Full Story
Two UC San Diego Bioengineers Named AIMBE Fellows
April 13, 2026
Two bioengineering faculty at UC San Diego were inducted into the 2026 College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). Full Story
What Does It Mean To Learn With AI?
April 9, 2026
Across higher education, universities are grappling with a central question — will generative AI undermine learning or reshape it? At UC San Diego, faculty members are exploring both sides of that question, developing AI tools designed to support teaching while preparing students to build the next generation of AI systems. Full Story
Why is the Artemis II Mission Landing off the Coast of San Diego?
April 9, 2026
Artemis II – the first crewed mission to orbit the moon since 1972 – is set to splash down off the coast of San Diego tomorrow, April 10, around 5 p.m. local time. The four-person crew returns to earth in the Orion capsule, which they have named Integrity. We asked Aaron Rosengren, a faculty member in the UC San Diego Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and an expert on spacecraft orbits between Earth and its moon, to explain why San Diego was chosen as the end point of the mission. Full Story
New Chip Design Could Boost Efficiency of Power Management in Data Centers
April 8, 2026
Engineers have developed a new chip design that could make data centers more energy efficient by improving a critical task in electronics: converting high voltages into lower levels for use in processors. Full Story
An Asteroid Doesn’t Have to Hit Earth to Cause Catastrophe
April 7, 2026
The threat of a civilization-ending asteroid hitting the Earth is well-known — as a plethora of Hollywood movies on the subject has demonstrated. But there is a less-known threat that could have equally dramatic consequences: a collision between a large asteroid and the moon. The debris from such a collision would damage satellites that underpin the infrastructure for everything from telecommunications, to defense, to navigation here on Earth. Now a team of engineers at the University of California San Diego is working to improve tools to calculate the likelihood of these collisions and predict their occurrence far enough in the future to prevent impact. Full Story