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New Online Masters Degrees for Fall 2012 at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering
April 2, 2012
The Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego is offering two new online master&rsq...
Nanoengineer Liangfang Zhang wins American Chemical Society's Unilever Award for 2012
March 28, 2012
The American Chemical Society has awarded Liangfang Zhang, professor in the Department of NanoEngine...
Faculty researchers share their experiences turning discoveries into marketable products
March 27, 2012
Four engineering faculty members with technology transfer success stories discussed the challenge...
Using Social Media to Catch a Thief on March 31
March 23, 2012
A group of crowdsourcing experts, including Manuel Cebrian, a computer science researcher at the ...
Get Early Access to Emerging Technologies at Research Expo at UC San Diego
March 22, 2012
Radio-frequency relays based on electromagnetic actuation, which route electrical sign...
President Obama Visits Solar Power Plant Using Technology Developed by UC San Diego Engineers
March 21, 2012
When President Obama visited the Copper Mountain Solar 1 Facility in Nevada Wednesday,...
Celebrating Pi Day With the Campus' First-Ever Pi-Mile Run
March 15, 2012
What’s more fun than celebrating March 14, Pi Day, by eating pie with an “...
See Engineering Advances for Medicine and Life Sciences at Research Expo
March 14, 2012
See the engineering advances that will power tomorrow’s breakthroughs in medicin...
Data Support Theory on Location of Lost Leonardo Da Vinci Painting
March 13, 2012
Evidence uncovered during research conducted in Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio late last year a...
Research Expo Offers Exclusive Peek at Tomorrow's Game-changing Technologies
March 12, 2012
New green methods for making hydrogen fuels. Microrockets that can circulate in the hu...
A lifetime of research may be leading to a life-saving treatment for shock
March 12, 2012
A 200-patient Phase 2 clinical pilot study will be initiated this month to test the efficacy and ...
How the Brain Learns: Researchers study timing, sensory systems, how regions connect
March 9, 2012
If a teacher puts out too much new information in the final minutes of a class, students might ha...
Students Use Engineering Know-how to Help People at Home and a World Away
March 6, 2012
A small village in the Philippines will soon be safer from typhoons, thanks to the wor...
Nanotrees harvest the sun's energy to turn water into hydrogen fuel
March 6, 2012
University of California, San Diego electrical engineers are building a forest of tiny nanowire t...
Smart, self-healing hydrogels open far-reaching possibilities in medicine, engineering
March 5, 2012
University of California, San Diego bioengineers have developed a self-healing hydrogel that bind...