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UC San Diego Bioengineering Startup Genomatica Tops New Biofuels Ranking
July 29, 2011

Renewable chemicals developer Genomatica recently took the #1 spot in the 2011-12 30 Hottest...

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Jacobs School Offers New Professional Degree Programs for Engineers
July 27, 2011

Beginning this fall, the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering will offer four new interdisci...

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Near-Space Balloon Team Lands on the Front Page
July 26, 2011

  The Near-Space Balloon Team at UC San Diego, under the direction of mechanical and aer...

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New UC San Diego Master Degree Program Aims to Keep the Medical Device and Medical Diagnosis Workforce Competitive
July 26, 2011

  Engineers at the University of California, San Diego are launching a new graduate degr...

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San Diego Renewable Energy Innovators Win Fellowships to Commercialize Inventions
July 20, 2011

Graduate students from the University of California, San Diego and San Diego State University wor...

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From Refugee to Bioengineer
July 20, 2011

  From a refugee camp in Burundi to a neuroscience laboratory at the University of Calif...

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Engineering Hats for Opening Day at the Races
July 15, 2011

Two dozen girls participating in an engineering workshop at the University of California, San Die...

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Solar Panels Keep Buildings Cool
July 8, 2011

  Those solar panels on top of your roof aren’t just providing clean power; they a...

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Flexible, Printable Sensors Detect Underwater Hazards
July 7, 2011

A team of nanoengineers based in Calit2 at UC San Diego has a patent pending on a new way to prin...

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Undergrads Spending the Summer as Full-time Researchers
July 6, 2011

Two dozen undergraduates at the University of California, San Diego, including nine engineering s...

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Oh the Places She'll Go
June 29, 2011

  During her time here at the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego, Heather Rude...

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Former Jacobs School Dean Robert Conn Meets With President Barack Obama
June 23, 2011

  The importance of scientific research for the United States. The importance of getting s...

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Nanoparticles Disguised as Red Blood Cells Will Deliver Cancer-Fighting Drugs
June 20, 2011

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have developed a novel method of disguising n...

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UC San Diego Researchers Create Tool to Put the Lid on Solar Power Fluctuations
June 20, 2011

  How does the power output from solar panels fluctuate when the clouds roll in? And can r...

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Jacobs School to Open Doors for First-ever Family Day
June 17, 2011

  Watch microscopic rockets that can cruise through blood samples and detect cancer. Learn...

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