News Releases
Moving forward, looking back
December 23, 2020
As we look back at 2020 and move forward in 2021, there are two high-level moves we are al...
Jacobs School alumni kickstart Dean's Scholars of Excellence program
December 15, 2020
Education is the great equalizer. Jacobs School of Engineering alumni Mary Bui-Pham and Dan Pha...
UC San Diego Celebrates 25 Years of Wireless Research Leadership
December 15, 2020
The University of California San Diego Center for Wireless Communications (CWC) is celebrating 25 ye...
Major Upgrade Under Way at the World's Largest Outdoor Shake Table
December 14, 2020
Earlier this year in San Diego, two giant cranes lifted the 330,000 lb. steel floor, or platen...
A smart ring shows it's possible to detect fever before you feel it
December 14, 2020
Temperature data collected by wearable devices worn on the finger can be reliably used to detect the...
Passing of Shao-chi Lin, Professor Emeritus of Engineering at UC San Diego
December 11, 2020
Shao-chi Lin, Professor Emeritus of Engineering at the University of California San Diego, died...
This flexible and rechargeable battery is 10 times more powerful than state of the art
December 10, 2020
A team of researchers has developed a flexible, rechargeable silver oxide-zinc battery with a five t...
Finding Worth in Waste: How Wastewater Monitoring Helps Reduce the Spread of SARS-CoV-2 at UC San Diego
December 10, 2020
Early detection is one of the keys to reducing the spread of SARS-CoV-2 - the virus that causes COVI...
Windmill kit provides introduction to structures and design
December 10, 2020
This fall, students in the Introduction to Structures and Design course at the Jacobs School of Engi...
Researchers discover a new superhighway system in the Solar System
December 9, 2020
Researchers have discovered a new superhighway network to travel through the Solar System much faste...
10 Jacobs School Faculty Named in 2020 List of Highly Cited Researchers
December 8, 2020
Ten professors at the University of California San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering are among the ...
UC San Diego nanoengineer Liangfang Zhang inducted into National Academy of Inventors
December 8, 2020
Liangfang Zhang, professor of nanoengineering and director of the chemical engineering program at th...
Electrical engineer selected to lead Intel AI project
December 7, 2020
Farinaz Koushanfar, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the UC San Diego Jacobs Sc...
Virus-like probes could help make rapid COVID-19 testing more accurate, reliable
November 30, 2020
Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed new and improved probes, know...
CleaNN: unsupervised, embedded defense against neural Trojan attacks
November 25, 2020
Engineers at UC San Diego have developed a new defense against neural network Trojan attacks on auto...