News Releases
UCSD Researchers Win Commercialization Grants
May 16, 2007
Hopping robots? Liquid shoes? Generating electricity from heat? A not-so-whacky university-based cen...
Electrical Engineering Grad Student Racks Up Awards
May 14, 2007
For his work on how semiconducting nanowires grow and behave, Shadi A. Dayeh, a graduate stude...
$1 Million Telemedicine Center
May 2, 2007
The UCSD School of Medicine has received a $1 million grant from the California Telemedicine & e...
Jacobs School Associate Dean Jeanne Ferrante Receives 2007 Educator Pinnacle Award
April 23, 2007
Jeanne Ferrante, professor of computer science and associate dean of the UCSD Jacobs School of Engin...
Google Chief Internet Evangelist Sees Changing Shape of the Web
April 23, 2007
Internet pioneer Vinton Cerf – Google's Chief Internet Evangelist – spoke to a standing-...
Why Nanowires Make Great Photodetectors
April 20, 2007
The geometry of semiconducting nanowires makes them uniquely suited for light detection, acco...
Earthshaking Visualizations
April 12, 2007
San Diego Supercomputer Center Virtual Building Helps Jacobs School Engineers Explore Performa...
Widely Used Iron Nanoparticles Exhibit Toxic Effects on Cells
March 28, 2007
Researchers at UC San Diego have discovered that iron-containing nanoparticles being tested in the t...
New Algorithms from UCSD Improve Automated Image Labeling
March 28, 2007
A Google image search for “tiger” yields many tiger photos – but also returns...
Elementary School Shakeup -- with Engineering Help
March 26, 2007
More than 1,100 fifth- and sixth-grade students from schools in Escondido and Del Mar, CA, in March ...
IEEE Computer Society Honors Internet Pioneer and Calit2 Director Larry Smarr
March 21, 2007
Computer Science and Engineering professor Larry Smarr has received the IEEE Computer Society's Tsut...
Long-Distance Mentoring Over Email
March 20, 2007
Long-distance relationships are often tough. But when it comes to mentoring, the distance can ...
Ericsson Funds Two Outstanding Wireless Researchers at UCSD, Calit2
March 20, 2007
For their excellent work in the field of wireless communication, Geoff Voelker and Rene Cruz &...
Packet Dropping and a Reinvented Internet
March 19, 2007
Imagine an Internet design where dropping packets is part of the plan. This “scienc...
Launching the Global Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Marine Microbial Research and Analysis (CAMERA)
March 13, 2007
CSE professor Larry Smarr, principal investigator on Calit2's CAMERA marine microbial genomics proje...