News Archive - Jacobs School of Engineering

Interdisciplinary Teams Win Three Data Storage Awards from Western Digital

Researchers from UC San Diego received three Western Digital Petabyte Innovation Quest (Peak) awards for pursuing innovative data storage projects.

UC San Diego Engineers Lead $5M DOE Center to Design Impact-Resistant Metamaterials

These materials will be designed with unique internal geometries that give them nonlinear properties not possible with existing materials.

From Lebanon’s Vineyards to Vision Restoration

Growing up in rural Lebanon, tinkering with cars and working the grape harvest gave professor Shadi Dayeh a hands-on foundation that now informs his innovations in brain mapping and potentially vision-restoring whole-eye transplantation.

Extreme Experiments on Perovskite May Offer Insight Into Earth’s Interior and Deep Earthquakes

Materials scientists have performed powerful laser shock experiments on a perovskite mineral to better understand the geophysical processes in Earth's deep interior and the mechanisms behind earthquakes deep within the planet.

Gift Expands UC San Diego Efforts to Teach Engineering Problem Solving at Scale

More than 5,300 high school students in the San Diego region have already benefitted from an innovative program that teaches engineering problem solving to non-engineers.

$1.7B in Funding Fuels Research that Sparks Breakthroughs

University of California San Diego received $1.7 billion in grants over the previous year, funding that fueled critical research in human health, national defense, advanced technology, social sciences, and much more.

Researchers Identify Weak Points in Diamond Fusion Fuel Capsules

Materials scientists at UC San Diego have uncovered how diamond — the material used to encase fuel for fusion experiments at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory — can develop tiny structural flaws that may limit fusion performance.