News Releases
Multidisciplinary Research Institute at UC San Diego Named in Honor of Qualcomm
April 2, 2013
The University of California, San Diego is renaming its division of the California Institute for ...
Border App Developed by Computer Scientists Wins Third Place at Mobile World Congress
March 28, 2013
A team of computer science students from the University of California, San Diego recently took ho...
Better, Cheaper, Faster Ways for Making (and Destroying) Memories
March 25, 2013
For literary types, memory is often linked with Marcel Proust’s madeleine cookie, which, in...
Engineers Develop Nanofoams for Better Body Armor, Layers of Protection for Buildings
March 25, 2013
Engineers at the University of California, San Diego are deve...
Could a Robotic Skateboard Defeat Tony Hawk? One Day, Maybe
March 22, 2013
“Five! Four! Three! Two! One!” A robotic skateboard soared high into the a...
Sujit Dey Named Faculty Director of the von Liebig Entrepreneurism Center
March 19, 2013
Sujit Dey has been named faculty director of the von Liebig Center for Entrepreneurism and Techno...
A Good Day for Pi(e)
March 15, 2013
The camaraderie. The exercise. The pie. These were some of the reasons more than 160 p...
Research Shows How Earthquake Damage Can Impact Building Fire Safety Performance
March 13, 2013
Damage to building structural elements, elevators, stairs and fire protection systems caused by t...
Feed Your Entrepreneurial Spirit with Know-How
March 12, 2013
Aspire to be an entrepreneurial scientist but lack the know-how? The von Liebig Entrepreneurism C...
Alumnus Mike Chi is Developing Better EEG Recording Equipment at Cognionics
March 11, 2013
When Mike Chi finished his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at UC San Diego in 2011, he co-founded...
What is the Story Behind the Research Expo Gold Squares?
March 11, 2013
The gold squares on the Research Expo 2013 postcards…what are they? The gold squares a...
Jacobs School Celebrates Pi Day With 3.14-Mile Run and Walk
March 11, 2013
Running 3.14 miles is hard. The two undergraduates who won the first-ever T-shirt desi...
Engineers Develop Techniques to Improve Efficiency of Cloud Computing Infrastructure by as Much as 20 Percent
March 6, 2013
Computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego, and Google have develo...
International Consortium Builds 'Google Map' of Human Metabolism
March 4, 2013
Building on earlier pioneering work by researchers at the University of California, San Diego, an...
Peer Mentoring Program, Dean Emeritus Receive Diversity Awards
March 4, 2013
The Jacobs School of Engineering was in the spotlight at this year’s Equal Oppor...