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Building Better Phylogenetic Trees
December 19, 2006

Biologists will be able to reconstruct the process of evolution, determine relationships between...

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Group Engineering Projects, Learning and Fun -- ECE 191
December 12, 2006

Have you ever been to a final exam scheduled for a Friday night that is open to the public and inclu...

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Scalable Video Coding and Other Wireless Highlights
December 12, 2006

 During a live video conference, people with wildly different technical constraints are all wat...

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Fibers Used in Bullet-Proof Vests Quadruple Toughness of Dental Composites
December 6, 2006

 In a paper in Dental Materials, UCSD structural engineering professor Vistasp Karbhari and How...

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UCSD Grad Grabs Venture Funding
December 6, 2006

Quanlight, an emerging LED (light-emitting diode) company whose core technology was developed at...

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UCSD Grad Wins Award for Functional Brain Imaging Insights
December 6, 2006

 David Wipf, a recent graduate of the electrical and computer engineering Ph.D. program at UC S...

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Joint Cartilage Gets Slippery during Flex Time
December 5, 2006

Bioengineering researchers at UC San Diego have shown that sliding forces applied to cartilage surfa...

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Teams in Engineering Service Program Cited in National Award for Community Service
December 1, 2006

The Jacobs School's Teams in Engineering Service (TIES) program helped earn UCSD a place on the ...

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Calit2 Director and Jacobs School Professor Appointed to New Broadband Task Force by Governor Schwarzenegger
November 30, 2006

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today announced the appointment of Calit2 Director and Compute...

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Dean Frieder Seible Wins Humboldt Research Award
November 28, 2006

Jacobs School Dean Frieder Seible has received a 2006 Humboldt Research Award.   Thro...

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Two Jacobs School Engineering Students Honored for Leadership
November 28, 2006

Sourobh Raychaudhuri and Barath Raghavan, both Ph.D. candidates at UC San Diego’s Jacob’...

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Calit2 Takes Top Honors in San Diego Architectural Foundation Awards
November 20, 2006

Calit2's headquarters in UCSD's new engineering courtyard was selected as San Diego's best arch...

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UCSD Engineering Professor Named to Scientific American 50 List
November 15, 2006

MAE professor Prabhakar Bandaru has been named to the 2006 Scientific American 50, a list of top sci...

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UCSD Computer Scientist Wins Young Investigator Award, Research on Snake Venom Proteins Highlighted
November 9, 2006

Nuno Bandeira, a computer science and engineering Ph.D. candidate at UC San Diego’s Jacobs Sch...

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Novel Experiment Documents Evolution of Genome in Near-Real Time
November 2, 2006

A team led by bioengineering researchers at UC San Diego report in the November issue of Nature Gene...

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