June 17, 2019
June 17, 2019 —
UC San Diego mechanical and aerospace engineering graduate student Tao Wang recently demonstrated how an extremely strong magnetic field, similar to that on the surface of a neutron star, can be not only generated but also detected using an x-ray laser inside a solid material.
June 17, 2019
June 17, 2019 —
UC San Diego scientists adopt astronomy’s adaptive optics to correct microscope images for the scattering of light that occurs in brain tissue.
June 17, 2019
June 17, 2019 —
Four UC San Diego students are the recipients of the 2019 Undergraduate Library Research Prize. Now in its 13th year, the annual award recognizes the outstanding scholarly work of undergraduate students who demonstrate strategic use of Library services and resources.
June 17, 2019
June 17, 2019 —
Two UC San Diego undergraduate students were named Donald A. Strauss Foundation Public Service Scholars, and were awarded a $15,000 prize to pursue their social change and public service projects.
June 13, 2019
June 13, 2019 —
Biologists have provided the first example of cargo within bacteriophage cells transiting along treadmill-like structures. The discovery demonstrates that bacteria have more in common with sophisticated human cells than previously believed.
June 13, 2019
June 13, 2019 —
After winning just about every entrepreneur and startup pitch challenge on UC San Diego’s campus, raising $100,000 in a friends and family investment round, being accepted into the local Connect Springboard incubator program and securing paid pilot programs with two universities, Educational Vision Technologies is ready to scale up.
June 13, 2019
June 13, 2019 —
Local biotech company Locana made news last month when it raised $55 million in venture capital funding.
June 13, 2019
June 13, 2019 —
They are aspiring female scientists on a beautiful mission—literally. Armed with makeup brushes, mascara wands, emery boards and nail polish, these “missionaries” cast out the increasing loneliness experienced by the elderly with glitz and glam.
June 13, 2019
June 13, 2019 —
This June, thousands of students will come together and celebrate their journey as UC San Diego students in the campus’ many commencement ceremonies. With inspirational advice from commencement speaker former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and student speaker Michaela Juels, these graduates will go out into the world, armed with their UC San Diego degree, and pursue their dreams.
June 13, 2019
June 13, 2019 —
Could a computer pick up where Mozart left off? Or could a machine make videos that look like pieces by Picasso? Students enrolled in UC San Diego’s first-ever Machine Learning for the Arts course used methods rooted in engineering to try to answer these types of questions and make art in the process.
