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Five UC San Diego Bioengineering Graduate Students Honored as Siebel Scholars

September 25, 2019

Five UC San Diego bioengineering graduate students working at the interface of biology, engineering and health have been honored as 2020 Siebel Scholars.

Graeve Selected by HACU as Inaugural Leadership Fellow

August 1, 2019

UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering professor Olivia Graeve has been selected by the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities as a fellow in its inaugural Presidential Leadership Academy, designed to increase Hispanic representation in top leadership positions in higher education.

Educational Vision Technologies Scales Up with Seed Round

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.

Putting Earth Science Skills to Use…..on Mars

June 6, 2019

Hannah Munguia, a UC San Diego environmental engineering student with an earth science minor, had a revelation when she worked on the MARS 2020 Rover as an intern at NASA: there’s a place for environmental science and engineering in the aerospace world.

Not Your Grandma’s Chess

May 9, 2019

In chess— the classic test of strategy and wit— players take turns making one move at a time, able to see what their opponents are doing and adjust plan accordingly.

UC San Diego Engineer Andrew Kahng Awarded Ho-Am Prize

April 5, 2019

University of California San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Professor Andrew B. Kahng has been awarded the 2019 Ho-Am Prize for Engineering, the highest award for engineering in Korea.

Sink or Swim—Concrete Canoe Team Aims to Reach the Podium at National Race

March 21, 2019

The engineering challenge sounds like a nearly impossible task: making a canoe out of concrete that can float—and race—on water. But ask anyone on the UC San Diego Concrete Canoe team, and they’ll tell you it’s not only possible but also a highlight of their engineering experience at UC San Diego.

Graduate Student’s Steerable Brain Catheter Wins Big at Inventors Competition

December 6, 2018

Gopesh Tilvawala’s path to San Diego spans four countries and four continents. That journey led him to UC San Diego and the pursuit of a Ph.D. in mechanical and aerospace engineering with a focus on medical device technology. For the past four years, he’s been working to develop a first-of-its-kind catheter that can be remotely controlled to navigate the tiny arteries in the brain.

UC San Diego Undergrads Design New Birch Aquarium Exhibit

November 15, 2018

Ten UC San Diego undergraduate students. Ten weeks. One floor-ready, interactive museum exhibit.

UC San Diego and Invention Science Fund Collaborate to Create New Technology Startups

October 24, 2018

Invention Science Fund, the incubator arm of Intellectual Ventures, and San Diego’s Legler Benbough Foundation will contribute $1 million in combined sponsorship funds to the Institute for the Global Entrepreneur at the University of California San Diego to help accelerate new startup companies.
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