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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Study shows strong link between lung cancer and air pollution, but not second-hand smoke
KPBS | July 7, 2025

Reductions in tobacco smoking have led to lower rates of lung cancer in many places. But people who have never smoked still get lung cancer. In fact, ...

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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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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...

Read More

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...

Read More

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...

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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...

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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...

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