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UC San Diego Qualcomm Institute Gears Up for Maker Faire San Diego

September 25, 2015

The Qualcomm Insitute will demo and display research and technologies in the Family, Imaging, Drone and Robotics Zones at the Faire, which takes place Oct. 3-4 in Balboa Park.

NSF Locates National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure Site at UC San Diego

September 16, 2015

University selected for its unique strengths in nanobiology, nanophotonics and nanomagnetics research

Molecular Biologist, UCSD Professor Gina Sosinsky, Dies at 60

September 5, 2015

Sosinsky, a highly regarded scientist and teacher who performed seminal work in the molecular structure of gap junctions and other cell-cell junctions, died yesterday from complications related to a bone marrow transplant. She was 60. 

Qualcomm Institute Convenes Conference on Future of Virtual Reality

August 28, 2015

Experts from academia and industry will share insights into the future of virtual-reality technologies and content at the first Future of Virtual Reality Conference Sept. 8-9, organized by the Qualcomm Institute on the UC San Diego campus.

Howard University Alumnus Awarded Sloan Ph.D. Fellowship in Computer Science at UC San Diego

August 25, 2015

UC San Diego joins MIT and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as elite campuses selected to be part of the Sloan Foundation's Minority Ph.D. Program, and the foundation recently announced the first computer science student at UC San Diego to become a Sloan Scholar.

Online Magazine for Teens Features UC San Diego Professor and Smart Vehicles

August 25, 2015

IEEE Spark inspires teens with story of 'smart vehicles' and highlights the pioneering contributions of UC San Diego expert in intelligent transportation and telematics, Mohan Trivedi, director of the Laboratory for Intelligent and Safe Automobiles (LISA).

Bioinformatics Pioneers Launch First Online Bioinformatics Specialization on Coursera

August 17, 2015

CSE professor Pavel Pevzner and recent postdoc Phillip Campeau are launching a six-part series of courses as a Specialization mini-degree on Coursera teaching bioinformatics, culminating in a Capstone Project that will prepare students to solve real-world research challenges.

Qualcomm Institute Hosts North American School of Information Theory

August 7, 2015

This year's NASIT will feature lectures and workshops by professors from Stanford, USC, Carnegie Mellon and UC Irvine on a wide range of topics, including managing signal interference, optimizing data analysis and channel models for biological communications.

UC San Diego Participates in Coursera Global Skills Initiative

August 5, 2015

The Qualcomm Institute and SDSC are producing online courses about the Internet of Things and Big Data, respectively. The courses, to debut in the fall, represent two of the three series of courses announced this week by Coursera' new Global Skills Initiative.

NSF Gives Green Light to Pacific Research Platform

August 3, 2015

NSF has awarded Calit2, CITRIS and nearly 20 participating institutions a $5 million, 5-year grant to create the Pacific Research Platform to enable a science-driven data freeway system in the western U.S. with speeds 1,000 times faster that today's traffic between campuses.
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