News Releases
UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Hires 24 Faculty in Fall 2020
September 8, 2020
The University of California San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering is proud to introduce the 24&nbs...
New anode material could lead to safer fast-charging batteries
September 2, 2020
Scientists at UC San Diego have discovered a new anode material that enables lithium-ion batteries t...
Eight teams of engineers and physicians work to tackle COVID-19 related challenges
August 20, 2020
The Galvanizing Engineering in Medicine program at UC San Diego is supporting eight COVID-19 related...
UC San Diego named 4th best public research university in prestigious global rankings
August 17, 2020
Shanghai rankings celebrate campus as a world-renowned research powerhouse. ...
Extrachromosomal DNA is common in human cancer and drives poor patient outcomes
August 16, 2020
The multiplication of genes located in extrachromosomal DNA that have the potential to cause cancer ...
CMI Researcher Receives $7.3M DOE Grant to Address National Crop Productivity Through Soil Microbes
August 14, 2020
UC San Diego Center for Microbiome Innovation (CMI) Faculty Member Karsten Zengler and a team of res...
UC San Diego engineers selected for DARPA Secure Silicon program
August 13, 2020
Engineers at UC San Diego have been selected by DARPA to participate in the Automatic Implementation...
Nanoengineers, radiologists work toward immunotherapy for liver cancer
August 13, 2020
A team of nanoengineers and interventional radiologists at UC San Diego and the VA San Diego Healthc...
Flipping a metabolic switch to slow tumor growth
August 11, 2020
The enzyme serine palmitoyl-transferase can be used as a metabolically responsive “switch&rdqu...
Nanoengineering and chemical engineering at UC San Diego in the spotlight
August 10, 2020
A creative group of faculty, students and staff within the University of California San Diego are...
Engineer Earns Presidential Award for Improving Underrepresented Student Access to STEM Experiences
August 7, 2020
Olivia Graeve, a UC San Diego professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, has received the Pr...
Biomedical Engineering Society earns Outstanding Chapter Award
July 31, 2020
UC San Diego's chapter of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) was recognized with the Chap...
New fabrication method brings single-crystal perovskite devices closer to viability
July 29, 2020
Nanoengineers at UC San Diego developed a new method to fabricate perovskites as single-crystal thin...
Computer Scientist Receives NSF Grant to Identify Antibody Responses Against SARS-COV-2
July 27, 2020
Pavel Pevzner, Ronald R. Taylor Professor of Computer Science in UC San Diego’s Computer Scien...
Rare Glassy Metal Discovered During Quest to Improve Battery Performance
July 24, 2020
Scientists from UC San Diego and Idaho National Laboratory scrutinized the earliest stages of l...