News Releases
UC San Diego Receives $10.5 Million from National Nuclear Security Administration to Create Center of Excellence
October 15, 2018
The University of California San Diego was awarded $10.5 million over five years from the National N...
World's largest outdoor shake table receives $16.3M from NSF for upgrades
October 15, 2018
The world’s largest outdoor earthquake simulator, operated by structural engineers at the Univ...
Samsung licenses 5G polar coding technology developed by UC San Diego engineers
October 11, 2018
Samsung and the University of California San Diego recently signed a major license agreement for the...
Undergraduate Engineers Get Hands-on Experience with Autonomous Vehicles
October 11, 2018
The Introduction to Autonomous Vehicles course is all about hands-on learning by doing. Over th...
Healthcare, Homecare and Robotics: Where to from here?
October 10, 2018
World-renowned experts working at the intersection of robotics and healthcare will convene at UC San...
Building bridges and batteries
October 4, 2018
More than 100 high school and college students from both sides of the border spent their summer...
Using personal data to predict blood pressure
October 4, 2018
Engineers at UC San Diego used wearable off-the-shelf technology and machine learning to predict an ...
Flowing salt water over this super-hydrophobic surface can generate electricity
October 3, 2018
Engineers have developed a super-hydrophobic surface that can be used to generate electrical vo...
UC San Diego Engineering has Hired 90 Faculty over 5 years
October 2, 2018
The UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering welcomes 15 new faculty in 2018. These talented indivi...
From months to minutes: Open-source web tool moves the needle towards instant microbiome meta-analyses
October 1, 2018
Multiomics, the combination of methods that generate data about “omes,” such as the geno...
Four researchers recognized for innovative and transformative work by NIH
October 1, 2018
Three researchers at the University of California San Diego have been selected to receive 2018 NIH D...
From stair-climbing robots to motion planning algorithms: UC San Diego at IROS 2018
September 28, 2018
From stair-climbing robots to algorithms that help robots navigate the world, researchers at the Uni...
Natural Product Discovery Tool Wins UC San Diego Center for Microbiome Innovation (CMI) Grand Challenges Award
September 27, 2018
The 2018 UC San Diego Center for Microbiome Innovation (CMI) Grand Challenges Award has been given t...
Engineering graduate students selected as Siebel Scholars
September 19, 2018
Five Jacobs School of Engineering graduate students working to improve immunology, cardiac health, b...
Scientists use artificial neural networks to predict new stable materials
September 18, 2018
Artificial neural networks—algorithms inspired by connections in the brain—have “l...