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Nanomedicine Pioneer Awarded MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’

September 29, 2026

UC San Diego chemical and nano engineering professor Liangfang Zhang has been named a 2026 MacArthur Fellow from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. He has developed a creative approach to medicine that features cell-mimicking nanoparticles to treat disease.

Undergraduate Engineers Receive Summer Research Scholarships Thanks to Support from General Atomics

September 28, 2026

Eleven undergraduate engineering students at UC San Diego received scholarships to conduct research in labs on campus this summer as part of the IDEA Engineering Research Scholarship program at the Jacobs School of Engineering.

By Shaping and Shrinking Light, Engineers Alter a Material’s Magnetic Properties

September 25, 2026

A new approach that uses light to switch the magnetic states of a material could lead to faster, smaller and more energy-efficient data storage.

UC San Diego Holds Steady as Nation’s No. 6 Public University

September 22, 2026

For the fourth year, UC San Diego has been named the country’s sixth best public university by U.S. News & World Report in its annual Best Colleges rankings. UC San Diego also held steady at No. 29 among more than 400 national universities overall.

UC San Diego Engineering Graduate Students Named Siebel Scholars

September 18, 2026

Three engineering graduate students at the Jacobs School of Engineering have been named 2027 Siebel Scholars. The Siebel Scholars program recognizes the most talented students in the world’s leading graduate schools of business, computer science, bioengineering and energy science.

U.S. Elections Experts

September 15, 2026

Experts from UC San Diego are available for interviews and analysis of the U.S. elections Areas of expertise include election trust, voting behavior, political polarization, immigration, foreign policy, misinformation, media, Congress and the broader forces shaping American democracy.

A Summer of Learning by Doing

August 31, 2026

UC San Diego's Qualcomm Institute hosted three summer internships in semiconductors, game design and AI, giving students hands-on, workforce-ready skills.

NSF Funds New Center to Design Reliable, Self-Correcting Quantum Computers

August 27, 2026

A multidisciplinary team of researchers including computer scientists at UC San Diego has been awarded a $37.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation for a center aimed at designing practical and self-correcting quantum computers from top to bottom,.

This Thin Device Can Store Energy, Strengthen Structures and Be Recycled

August 20, 2026

Engineers developed a new type of supercapacitor that can do more than store electricity — it can also provide structural support and be quickly disassembled into reusable parts. It could offer a more sustainable approach to energy storage for lightweight electric vehicles.

Sense and Treat

August 19, 2026

Toward lab tests and medical delivery, on the same microneedle patch.
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