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Engineers developing education kit to teach students practical skills in integrated photonics
March 4, 2019
Engineers are developing an educational toolkit to bring integrated photonics into the college engin...
Electrical Engineer Pamela Cosman Honored with Inaugural Dr. John and Felia Proakis Chancellor Faculty Fellowship
March 1, 2019
A new fellowship from UC San Diego’s Office of the Chancellor ensures research funds to suppor...
UC San Diego Part of DOE's First Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling R&D Center
February 15, 2019
UC San Diego is a collaborator in the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) first lithium-...
How breast tissue stiffening promotes breast cancer development
February 12, 2019
By examining how mammary cells respond in a stiffness-changing hydrogel, researchers discovered that...
A bioengineered factory for T-cells
February 11, 2019
Researchers have developed an injectable sponge-like gel that enhances the production of T-cells aft...
Micromotors deliver oral vaccines
February 8, 2019
UC San Diego nanoengineering researchers have developed oral vaccines powered by micromotors that ta...
X-rays reveal why adding a bit of salt improves perovskite solar cells
February 7, 2019
New findings about perovskites could pave the way to developing low-cost, high-efficiency solar cell...
Lifesaving App
February 7, 2019
Undergraduate students on the Cruz Roja Global Ties team designed and built a mobile app to make amb...
Overcoming Delays in Long-Distance Surgery
February 5, 2019
An engineering-surgery team at UC San Diego is working to extend the reach of surgeons by allowing t...
UC San Diego Institute of Engineering in Medicine
February 5, 2019
At the University of California San Diego, engineers, computer scientists, physicians and clinical r...
Physician-Engineer Match-Making at UC San Diego
February 5, 2019
Matching physicians with engineers and computer scientists, and then providing seed funding for thei...
Programming White Blood Cells to Fight Pancreatic Cancer
February 5, 2019
Pancreatic cancer is the third most lethal cancer in the United States. Patients typically don&rsquo...
Training Clinical Engineers
February 4, 2019
UC San Diego's Clinical Bioengineering course offers undergraduate engineering students hands-on...
See, Think, Predict: Engineers build a soft robotics perception system inspired by humans
January 30, 2019
An international team of researchers has developed a perception system for soft robots inspired by t...
Sticky Science
January 30, 2019
Organic compounds from perfume, food, fabrics and soaps coat indoor surfaces. The film commonly foun...