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Control algorithms could keep sensor-laden balloons afloat in hurricanes for a week
December 23, 2016
Controls engineers at UC San Diego have developed practical strategies for building and coordinating...
Bert's Biomechanics
December 20, 2016
Bioengineering professor emeritus Dr. Yuan-Cheng (Y.C.) "Bert" Fung, now age 97, was a suc...
Shake, Burn and Learn
December 20, 2016
On a recent afternoon, two Jacobs School engineers equipped with 3D glasses stood in front of a towe...
Compact videocamera captures panoramic images in high resolution
December 16, 2016
By combining 3D curved fiber bundles with spherical optics, photonics researchers at the University ...
Bioengineer receives NSF award to study cell migration in a 3D environment
December 15, 2016
The National Science Foundation has awarded a $1.1 million CAREER award to Stephanie Fraley, a bioen...
Dennis Abremski appointed as Executive Director of the Institute for the Global Entrepreneur at UC San Diego
December 13, 2016
The UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering is pleased to announce the appointment of Dennis Abrem...
Engineers develop a new non-invasive method to detect infections in prostheses
December 13, 2016
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a new non-invasive method to dete...
Israel's Journey to the Moon
December 12, 2016
In 2010, Yonatan Winetraub, a citizen of Israel, sat down with two friends at a bar and said, &ldquo...
UC San Diego Computer Scientist Honored as ACM Fellow
December 9, 2016
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s leading computing society, named Un...
From round to square
December 9, 2016
Researchers at the University of California San Diego for the first time have revealed why the shape...
Creating Clinical Bioengineers
December 8, 2016
In a clinical bioengineering class, students observe physicians, identify problems in their cli...
UC San Diego Alum Wins Global Competition Aimed at Fighting Wildlife Trafficking
December 8, 2016
A new tool for fighting wildlife trafficking developed by a team led by a UC San Diego mechanical en...
Staff Member Aims for Seven Marathons on Seven Continents in 12 Months
December 6, 2016
A fund manager at the University of California San Diego has embarked on an ambitious effort to beco...
New technique to study how proteins and ligands interact
December 6, 2016
A team of researchers has developed a more accurate and less disruptive method to study how proteins...
Engineering teams get a boost at Triton Innovation Challenge competition
December 6, 2016
Three teams with ties to the Jacobs School were recognized at this year’s Triton Innovation Ch...