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Free Coding Faire for Kids at UC San Diego Computer Science Department

December 5, 2016

The Computer Science and Engineering department will host a free Coding Faire for students ages 7 to 12 on Dec. 11 from 10am to noon. The open event is organized by ThoughtSTEM, a company created by UC San Diego Ph.D. alumni from CSE and Biochemistry.

VA San Diego, UC San Diego Promote Entrepreneurial Veterans

November 30, 2016

Sponsored by the Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System and UC San Diego, “So You Want To Be An Entrepreneur” will be held from 12:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 5, at Fuse Integration, 1425 E Street in downtown San Diego.

UC San Diego’s Center for Energy Research Shares $13.5M Grant for Campus-National Lab Collaborations

November 22, 2016

The Center for Energy Research (CER), an organized research unit at the University of California San Diego, will share a $13.5 million, three-year University of California grant to encourage collaboration between the UC campuses and the Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories.

Scientist, Entrepreneur, Robotics Expert Will Speak to Downtown Collaboratory ‘Game Changers’

November 22, 2016

The fourth presentation in the Game Changers Series features Todd Hylton, a professor of practice at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering and executive director of the UC San Diego Contextual Robotics Institute.

Five UC San Diego Professors Named 2016 AAAS Fellows

November 21, 2016

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has awarded the distinction of fellow to 391 members, including five from the University of California San Diego. The new UC San Diego fellows, who will be recognized on Feb. 18 during the 2017 AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston, are Richard Carson, Konstantine Georgakakos, David Gough, Larry Smarr, and Lynne Talley.

In Third ‘Inside Innovation’ Talk, Experts Update Research into Strokes

November 21, 2016

The next presentation in UC San Diego’s “Inside Innovation” series features professors Andrew Kahn and Juan C. del Alamo discussing their latest research into quantifying a person’s risk for stroke through analyzing blood flow through the heart.

Biocom Names UC San Diego ‘Community Partner of the Year’

November 14, 2016

Biocom, the San Diego-based advocate for California’s life-science sector, has announced that the University of California San Diego has been named its “Community Partner of the Year” and will receive that recognition at the organization’s Annual Dinner on Nov. 17 at the La Jolla Hyatt Aventine.

Visualizing Dreams: Hybrid Performance-Exhibition Set for November 17 at UC San Diego

November 14, 2016

The new performance-exhibition, “The Pawel Norway Dream Machine”, will premiere next Thursday, November 17, at the Calit2 Theater in Atkinson Hall on the UC San Diego campus from 5-7 p.m.

Problem-Solving Students at UC San Diego: Win Big Money for Your Invention

November 10, 2016

Do you have an idea for a better mousetrap, or an app that will change the internet? Student inventors and problem solvers at UC San Diego are invited to apply for a chance to win up to $2,000 to use for building their inventions, mentoring, and resources.

Researchers Receive $2.4 Million from Gates Foundation for Infant Vaccination Identification

November 8, 2016

The project, which previously received $500,000 from the Gates Foundation, is expected to make children’s vaccinations more efficient and more effective by removing reliance on manual identification and recordkeeping.
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