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UC San Diego Student Takes on Challenge: Making Graphene for the Market
June 2, 2015

A University of California, San Diego graduate student has found a way to use mass-produce graphene,...

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Engineers win grant to make smart clothes for personalized cooling and heating
June 1, 2015

Imagine a fabric that will keep your body at a comfortable temperature—regardless of how hot o...

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5G Wireless Forum: The Promise and the Peril of Future Wireless Systems
May 29, 2015

The format for the recent 5G Forum on Next-Generation Wireless Systems and Applications, held at the...

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Programming probiotics for early detection of liver cancer metastases
May 27, 2015

Scientists at the University of California, San Diego and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

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Power to the Batteries
May 21, 2015

Better solar panels and wind turbines are important to helping ensure a low-carbon future. But they ...

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Alumnus Reaches for the Stars
May 21, 2015

Robert Kolozs, a Jacobs School alumnus, is president of San Diego Composites Inc., a company he cofo...

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Gel filled with nanosponges cleans up MRSA infections
May 18, 2015

Nanoengineers at the University of California, San Diego developed a gel filled with toxin-absorbing...

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Alumni-led company Tortuga Logic releases toolkit to transform hardware systems developers' approach to security
May 18, 2015

Tortuga Logic, a company co-founded by Ryan Kastner, a professor of computer science at the Universi...

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Event empowers students to study STEM fields
May 14, 2015

As a ninth grader, Diana has dreamt of being many different things, but an engineer has never been o...

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UC San Diego Student Takes Third Place at UC Grad Slam
May 14, 2015

In a three-minute TED-style talk, UC San Diego graduate student Alex Phan explained to University of...

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The Basement Is Open for Business
May 14, 2015

The basement of Mandeville Hall has been transformed into the nexus of innovation at UC San Die...

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Into the Amazon
May 14, 2015

In the summer of 2013, alumnus Jeffrey Lehmann was drinking wine on the patio of Marc Meyers, a mech...

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UC San Diego bioengineering student and Jacobs Scholar receives Goldwater Scholarship
May 12, 2015

Zou was awarded the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship this year, created in 1986 in honor ...

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Coding with Colorful Cards: Kids Learn Arduino-based Code with Tinker the Robot
May 12, 2015

Meet Tinker the Robot. UC San Diego mechanical engineering alumnus (2007) Kay Yang created him to te...

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Integrated optics pioneer, UC San Diego professor emeritus William Chang, dies
May 5, 2015

William S. C. Chang, who helped usher the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the U...

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