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2018 student highlights
December 19, 2018

The UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering is home to 9,000 engineering and computer science stud...

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Hardware-software co-design approach could make neural networks less power hungry
December 19, 2018

A team led by the University of California San Diego has developed a neuroinspired hardware-software...

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2018 Jacobs School highlights
December 18, 2018

A lot happened at the Jacobs School of Engineering this year. Revisit some of our key research ...

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UCSD Battery Startup Ateios Receives Funding for Placing in November Pitch Competition
December 13, 2018

UCSD Startup Ateios was among the three finalists chosen to receive a collective amount of $150,000 ...

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Switching to a Home Battery Won't Help Save the World from Climate Change
December 11, 2018

Home energy storage systems might save you money, but under current policies, they would also often ...

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Graduate student's steerable brain catheter wins big at inventors competition
December 10, 2018

Gopesh Tilvawala, a graduate student in the UC San Diego Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engi...

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Undergraduate team wins 2nd place at global synthetic biology competition
December 10, 2018

A team of 11 undergraduate students from UC San Diego earned second place out of 250 teams from arou...

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Engineers develop 3D-printed metamaterials that change mechanical properties under magnetic fields
December 8, 2018

A team of researchers have developed an entirely new class of metamaterials that can nearly instantl...

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Scientists cut main heart disease risk locus out of DNA by genome editing
December 6, 2018

Over the past decade we’ve learned that billions of people carry a mysterious specter in their...

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Combined economic and technological evaluation of battery energy storage for grid applications
December 3, 2018

A new study offers a combined chemistry-and-economics approach that should make it easier to identif...

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To detect new odors, fruit fly brains improve on a well-known computer algorithm
December 3, 2018

It might seem like fruit flies would have nothing in common with computers, but new research from th...

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Multifunctional Non-Equiatomic High Entropy Alloys
December 3, 2018

In a synergistic effort to combine high entropy alloy design with martensite design, Professor Kenne...

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Five Questions with Student Entrepreneur, Andy Bangash
November 29, 2018

Sikandar (Andy) Bangash is Co-Founder of SAPE, a mobile application which connects drivers with home...

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Easy to use 3D bioprinting technique creates lifelike tissues from natural materials
November 28, 2018

Bioengineers have developed a 3D bioprinting technique that works with natural materials and is easy...

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Disordered materials could be hardest, most heat-tolerant carbides
November 27, 2018

Materials scientists at Duke University and UC San Diego have discovered a new class of carbides exp...

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The recent increase in non-smokers' lung cancer rates may be due to air pollution
MK News (Korea) | July 3, 2025

The recent increase in non-smokers' lung cancer rates may be due to air pollution, according to a study. Air pollution can cause lung cancer-related g...

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Air pollution linked to lung cancer-driving DNA mutations, study finds
The Guardian | July 2, 2025

Research finds that the higher the levels of air pollution in a region, the more cancer-promoting mutations are present....

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Air pollution may be raising risk of lung cancer in 'never-smokers'
The Hill | July 2, 2025

Exposure to air pollution, other contaminants and traditional herbal medicines may be contributing to the development of lung cancer in people who hav...

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2018 student highlights
December 19, 2018

The UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering is home to 9,000 engineering and computer science stud...

Read More

Hardware-software co-design approach could make neural networks less power hungry
December 19, 2018

A team led by the University of California San Diego has developed a neuroinspired hardware-software...

Read More

2018 Jacobs School highlights
December 18, 2018

A lot happened at the Jacobs School of Engineering this year. Revisit some of our key research ...

Read More

UCSD Battery Startup Ateios Receives Funding for Placing in November Pitch Competition
December 13, 2018

UCSD Startup Ateios was among the three finalists chosen to receive a collective amount of $150,000 ...

Read More

Switching to a Home Battery Won't Help Save the World from Climate Change
December 11, 2018

Home energy storage systems might save you money, but under current policies, they would also often ...

Read More

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