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The Deep Freeze: Engineering Students Study Beetles and Climate Change Via Weather Balloon
December 17, 2010
UC San Diego engineering students recently sent a weather balloon up 80,000 feet to near space to ...
Engineering for the Earth
December 14, 2010
While she was still in high school, Nitya Timalsina began working on developing cheap yet powerful...
Two UC San Diego Computer Scientists Recognized for Contributions in Computer Systems Security, Bioinformatics
December 8, 2010
For contributions to bioinformatics and computer systems security, computer science professors Pav...
Metabolism Models may Explain Why Alzheimer's Disease Kills Some Neuron Types First
December 6, 2010
Bioengineers from the University of California, San Diego developed an explanation for why some ty...
Your Web Surfing History is Accessible (without your Permission) via JavaScript
December 2, 2010
The Web surfing history saved in your Web browser can be accessed without your permission. JavaScr...
Genomic Fault Zones Come and Go
November 29, 2010
The fragile regions in mammalian genomes that are thought to play a key role in evolution go throu...
Short, On-Chip Light Pulses will Enable Ultrafast Data Transfer within Computers
November 24, 2010
Electrical engineers generated short, powerful light pulses on a chip – an important step to...
Bioengineers Provide Adult Stem Cells with Friendly Environment: Simultaneous Chemical, Electrical and Mechanical Cues
November 16, 2010
Bioengineers from the University of California, San Diego have achieved the “Triple Crown&rd...
NanoEngineers Aim to Grow Tissues with Functional Blood Vessels
November 12, 2010
University of California, San Diego NanoEngineers won a grant from the National Institutes of Heal...
Bioengineering Major among Four UC San Diego Undergraduates Recognized For Their Stellar Library Research Skills
November 8, 2010
Bioengineering major J.R. Bachman is among the four undergraduate students at the University of Ca...
Electrical Engineer Explores Mongolia, and You Can Too
November 1, 2010
Luke Barrington is a Ph.D. candidate in the UC San Diego Department of Electrical and Computer Eng...
Flash Memories Researcher Wins Intel Ph.D. Fellowship
October 25, 2010
Future USB drives, memory cards for cameras, and solid-state drives for smartphones, laptops and e...
San Diego and Mexico Universities Join to Boost Regional Technology and Economic Development
October 22, 2010
UC San Diego is partnering with Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (UABC) in a researc...
How Does Your Blood Go from your Toes to your Heart?
October 21, 2010
If gravity always pulls things down, how does blood go from your toes to your heart? Bioengineerin...
UCSD Engineering Honor Society Wins Most Outstanding Chapter Award
October 20, 2010
UCSD's engineering honor society, Tau Beta Pi, was awarded the "nation's most outstan...