News Releases
More than 2,000 attend student-organized career fair
March 4, 2015
There might not be such a thing as a standing-room only job fair, but the Disciplines of Engineering...
Pens filled with high-tech inks for Do It Yourself sensors
March 2, 2015
A new simple tool developed by nanoengineers at the University of California, San Diego, is op...
Three Jacobs School engineers honored as Sloan Fellows
March 2, 2015
Three engineers at the University of California, San Diego, are being honored by the Alfred P. Sloan...
An interview with alumnus Nikolai Devereaux about Research Expo
February 26, 2015
Nikolai Devereaux earned a bachelor’s in computer science at the Jacobs School in 2001. Now an...
New Engineering Research Centers at UC San Diego will be Highlighted at Research Expo
February 24, 2015
Professors leading four new research centers at the University of California, San Diego Jacobs Schoo...
Engineering SISTERS
February 20, 2015
How do you build the perfect water filter? With cotton balls or coffee filters? How about sand? And ...
Students help Boy Scouts earn STEM merit badges
February 9, 2015
They learned about building circuits with blinking LED lights. They learned several (programming) la...
Engineers Put the 'Squeeze' on Human Stem Cells
February 9, 2015
After using optical tweezers to squeeze a tiny bead attached to the outside of a human stem cell, re...
Two UC San Diego Scientists Receive Stem Cell Technology Grants
February 3, 2015
The governing board of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) has awarded two Uni...
Frontiers of Innovation Program Seeds Seven Multidisciplinary Projects on Campus
January 29, 2015
The “Frontiers of Innovation” program is a campus-wide effort to support the primary res...
How whales hear: 3D computer simulations of a baleen whale's head point to skull vibrations
January 28, 2015
Researchers at San Diego State University and the University of California, San Diego, shed new ligh...
Improving Signal Amplification in Semiconductors and Other Optoelectronic Devices
January 27, 2015
According to the American Institute of Physics (AIP), a new signal amplification process developed b...
Stomach Acid-Powered Micromotors Get Their First Test in a Living Animal
January 26, 2015
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have shown that a micromotor fueled by stomac...
Temporary Tattoo Offers Needle-Free Way to Monitor Glucose Levels
January 14, 2015
Nanoengineers at the University of California, San Diego have tested a temporary tattoo that both ex...
Nanoshaping method points to future manufacturing technology
January 9, 2015
A new method that creates large-area patterns of three-dimensional nanoshapes from metal sheets repr...