February 3, 2021
February 3, 2021 —
Engineers at UC San Diego are on the front lines of global efforts to reduce the energy used by data centers. Through an ARPA-E grant, the team is working to double data center energy efficiency in the next decade through deployment of new photonic— light based —network topologies.
January 21, 2021
January 21, 2021 —
In November 2020, Lucira Health received emergency use authorization for the first rapid at-home COVID-19 testfrom the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Erik Engelson, a UC San Diego bioengineering and microbiology alumnus, is president and CEO of Lucira Health, which was founded by a UC Berkeley bioengineering alumni.
January 14, 2021
January 14, 2021 —
By combining large amounts of low-fidelity data with smaller quantities of high-fidelity data, nanoengineers at UC San Diego have developed a machine learning method to more accurately predict the properties of new materials including, for the first time, disordered materials.
November 12, 2020
November 12, 2020 —
There are more than 430 military connected students at UC San Diego. One area on campus that has spearheaded efforts to support these students is the Student Veterans Resource Center, which focuses on providing services and programs in collaboration with campus partners.
September 23, 2020
September 23, 2020 —
Five Jacobs School of Engineering graduate students conducting pioneering biomedical research have been named Siebel Scholars.
September 10, 2020
September 10, 2020 —
Bioengineers at UC San Diego have shown that human-genome produced RNA is present on the surface of human cells, suggesting a more expanded role for RNA in cell-to-cell and cell-to-environment interactions than previously thought.
September 2, 2020
September 2, 2020 —
Scientists at UC San Diego have discovered a new anode material that enables lithium-ion batteries to be safely recharged within minutes for thousands of cycles. It is promising for commercial applications where both high energy density and high power are desired.
July 29, 2020
July 29, 2020 —
Nanoengineers at UC San Diego developed a new method to fabricate perovskites as single-crystal thin films, which are more efficient for use in solar cells and optical devices than the current state-of-the-art polycrystalline forms of the material.
July 20, 2020
July 20, 2020 —
Engineers have incorporated a new understanding of the impact of environmental factors on droplet spread into a mathematical model that can be used to predict the early spread of respiratory viruses including COVID-19, and the role of respiratory droplets in that spread.
July 15, 2020
July 15, 2020 —
From mRNA vaccines entering clinical trials, to peptide-based vaccines and using molecular farming to scale vaccine production, the COVID-19 pandemic is pushing new and emerging nanotechnologies into the frontlines and the headlines.
