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Industry: Meet the Jacobs School's Students
December 20, 2013

Intel. Microsoft. Cisco. These were three of the 18 science and tech companies that sent recruite...

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Class Creates Budding Entrepreneurs
December 19, 2013

Kevin Fructuoso didn’t think about being an entrepreneur—until he took the Product De...

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2013: The Year in Review
December 13, 2013

From the largest alumni gift in the campus’ history, which went to the Department of Computer ...

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ACM Recognizes Two UC San Diego Computer Scientists
December 12, 2013

Two computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego are among the 50 members of th...

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With 'Cool Gizmo,' Research Team Hopes Citizen-Sensors Will Improve World Health
December 12, 2013

Enterprising researchers and students at the University of California, San Diego are looking for ...

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Bullet Trains, Express Lanes' and Aspen Trees
December 11, 2013

Computer scientists from the University of California, San Diego’s Jacobs School of Enginee...

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Hipster, surfer or biker? Computers may soon be able to tell the difference
December 10, 2013

Are you a hipster, surfer or biker? What is your urban tribe? Your computer may soon be able to t...

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Learning by Shaking
December 3, 2013

Over the past seven years, more than 7,000 sixth-graders from 26 schools in San Diego County built t...

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Nanosponge Vaccine Fights MRSA Toxins
December 2, 2013

Nanosponges that soak up a dangerous pore-forming toxin produced by MRSA (methicillin-resistant Stap...

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Bioengineering Professor Among Six UC San Diego Faculty Named 2013 AAAS Fellows
November 25, 2013

Six professors at the University of California, San Diego have been named 2013 Fellows of the Ame...

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Understanding Information: How We Get It, How We Use It, How to Benefit from It
November 20, 2013

For most computer users, information is only valuable when it serves a context-specific purpose, ...

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New Models Predict Where E. coli Strains Will Thrive
November 18, 2013

Bioengineers at the University of California, San Diego have used the genomic sequences of 55 E. ...

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Chemical Engineering Students Share Their Passion at UC San Diego Founders' Day
November 15, 2013

A small car that runs on chemical reactions, elephant toothpaste and a non-Newtonian fluid—...

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UC San Diego Shake Table, Robot Win Best of What's New Awards from Popular Science
November 13, 2013

The biggest outdoor shake table in the world and a robot designed to move along utility lines have r...

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Single-Cell Genome Sequencing Gets Better
November 12, 2013

Researchers led by bioengineers at the University of California, San Diego have generated the mos...

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