March 19, 2024
March 19, 2024 —
Deniz Burnham, who earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, became one of NASA’s newest astronauts on March 5.
February 29, 2024
February 29, 2024 —
UC San Diego electrical engineering student Grecia Paola Siono Gutierrez has been named a 2024 Brooke Owens Fellow, which recognizes exceptional undergraduate women in aerospace. Siono Gutierrez is the sixth recipient from the Jacobs School of Engineering in the eight-year history of the fellowship.
February 20, 2024
February 20, 2024 —
From the campus that brought you GoPro (Nick Woodman ‘97) comes the latest in drone videography: Epic Drone Tours. The company, founded by two UC San Diego student-athlete alumni, uses GoPro cameras mounted to small, customized drones to capture immersive, first-person view footage.
February 15, 2024
February 15, 2024 —
The UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering is launching two new master’s degree specializations designed for working professionals. The two new specializations are focused on the systems engineering of Cyber-Physical Social Systems and Value Supply Chains.
February 15, 2024
February 15, 2024 —
UC San Diego’s newest cafe is now open in Franklin Antonio Hall. Crafted @ Minerva’s Cafe brings coffee, boba tea and fresh, organic food with a focus on sustainability to the new Franklin Antonio Hall.
November 28, 2023
November 28, 2023 —
A startup spun off from technology developed at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering has secured $4 million in venture capital seed funding to commercialize their sweat-based diagnostic platform technology.
November 2, 2023
November 2, 2023 —
Seven Japanese startups spent two weeks at UC San Diego’s Institute for the Global Entrepreneur this fall learning about the startup market in the United States as part of the first cohort of the Beyond JAPAN program.
October 5, 2023
October 5, 2023 —
Daniel John, a bioengineering undergraduate student at UC San Diego, was one of 11 students from across the state awarded the $15,000 Strauss Scholarship for outstanding students developing social change or public service projects.
October 3, 2023
October 3, 2023 —
Two early career researchers at UC San Diego have been named recipients of the 2023 National Institutes of Health Director’s New Innovator Award.
September 28, 2023
September 28, 2023 —
Robert “Bob” Conn, dean emeritus of the University of California San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, has been selected to receive one of the oldest and most prestigious National Academy of Engineering (NAE) awards, the Simon Ramo Founders Award for 2023.
