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Fusion Engineering Institute co-hosts Beryllium Safety meeting with General Atomics
November 9, 2026

UC San Diego’s Fusion Engineering Institute hosted the Beryllium Health and Safety Committee F...

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UC San Diego, OpenStar Awarded DOE INFUSE Grant To Advance Dipole Fusion
November 3, 2026

Engineers at UC San Diego, in collaboration with industry partner OpenStar Technologies, have been a...

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Fusion Engineering Institute Researchers at UC San Diego Win Two Prestigious APS Awards
November 2, 2026

Two faculty at UC San Diego’s Fusion Engineering Institute were recently recognized with prest...

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UC San Diego Partners with TSMC to Create Pipeline From the Classroom to Semiconductor Cleanroom
October 28, 2026

UC San Diego has partnered with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world’s...

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Making the Case for Fusion Energy
October 22, 2026

Fusion is nature’s way of making energy. Every time you look at the sun and the stars, you&rsq...

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UC San Diego Artificial Intelligence Majors Applied their Skills in Summer Internships
October 19, 2026

As UC San Diego welcomed the second cohort of undergraduate students in its Artificial Intelligence ...

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Battery Manufacturing and Recycling Could Go Green With This ‘Glue’
October 9, 2026

A new battery binder — the glue that holds together a battery’s internal parts — c...

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A Temporary Melting Liquid Could Help Build Better Perovskite Solar Cells and LEDs
October 8, 2026

Researchers developed a new way to make perovskite solar cells — a promising next-generation s...

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Materials Scientist Developing Materials for Fusion Power Plants Joins Jacobs School Faculty
October 5, 2026

This summer, Penghui Cao — an expert in the development of the long lasting materials needed f...

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New Faculty Drive Advances in Fusion, Artificial Intelligence
October 5, 2026

The Jacobs School of Engineering welcomed three new faculty this fall, driving advances in emerging ...

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Two Jacobs School Engineers Elected AIAA Associate Fellows
September 29, 2026

Two engineers at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering have been elected Associate Fellows o...

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Nanomedicine Pioneer Awarded MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’
September 29, 2026

UC San Diego chemical and nano engineering professor Liangfang Zhang has been named a 2026 MacArthur...

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By Shaping and Shrinking Light, Engineers Alter a Material’s Magnetic Properties
September 25, 2026

A new approach that uses specially engineered light to switch the magnetic states of a material coul...

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Four Jacobs School of Engineering Undergraduate Programs Rank Top 10 Nationally
September 24, 2026

Four undergraduate programs at the Jacobs School of Engineering ranked in the nation’s Top 10 ...

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New Imaging Platform Maps Cell Type and Metabolic Activity Simultaneously
September 22, 2026

Cells of the same type adopt different metabolic states depending on where exactly they sit in the t...

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