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In Memoriam: Remembering Mervyn Lea Rudee, Founding Dean of the Division of Engineering at UC San Diego
March 20, 2024
Mervyn Lea Rudee, the University of California San Diego professor who served as Founding Dean of th...
UC San Diego Professor Awarded Signal Processing Society’s Highest Honor
March 19, 2024
University of California San Diego electrical and computer engineering professor Bhaskar Rao has rec...
Engineering Alumna Becomes Newest NASA Astronaut
March 19, 2024
Deniz Burnham, who earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering at the University of Cal...
How Do Neural Networks Learn? A Mathematical Formula Explains How They Detect Relevant Patterns
March 14, 2024
A team led by data and computer scientists at the University of California San Diego has given neura...
AI Fire-Detection Tool awarded for Innovations in Networking
March 14, 2024
The Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) named an AI fire-detection t...
New Imaging Tool Advances Study of Lipid Biology
March 14, 2024
From fruit flies to humans, there are many, many different types and subtypes of lipids operating at...
This Injectable Hydrogel Mitigates Damage to the Right Ventricle of the Heart
March 6, 2024
An injectable hydrogel can mitigate damage to the right ventricle of the heart with chronic pressure...
Healable Cathode Could Unlock Potential of Solid-state Lithium-sulfur Batteries
March 6, 2024
UC San Diego engineers developed a cathode material for lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries that is heal...
Electrical Engineering Transfer Student Awarded Fellowship for Women in Aerospace
February 29, 2024
UC San Diego electrical engineering student Grecia Paola Siono Gutierrez has been named a 2024 ...
Collaborative $9M UC San Diego Award Aimed at Sparking Fusion Energy Breakthrough
February 27, 2024
In a pioneering initiative, universities, industry leaders, and national laboratories are banding to...
What Will It Take for China to Reach Carbon Neutrality by 2060?
February 26, 2024
To become carbon neutral by 2060, as mandated by President Xi Jinping, China will have to build eigh...
UC San Diego team wins second place in geothermal collegiate competition
February 26, 2024
UC San Diego graduate students Jenny Nicolas, Zhenhua Zhang, Manh Tri Dao, and Shiny Choudhury won S...
Three Early Career Faculty Members Selected to Receive Sloan Research Fellowships
February 22, 2024
Electrical engineering Professor Abdoulaye Ndao is one of three UC San Diego early career faculty to...
NanoEngineering Department at UC San Diego Receives $2.1M Gift from the Aiiso Yufeng Li Family
February 21, 2024
Nanoengineer, entrepreneur and philanthropist Aiiso Yufeng Li (Jeff), and his family, have pledged a...
Detecting Pathogens--and Sepsis--Faster and More Accurately by Melting DNA
February 21, 2024
A new analysis method can detect pathogens in blood samples faster and more accurately than blood cu...