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Performance Series at UC San Diego Qualcomm Institute Enters Fourth Season

October 7, 2016

The 2016-2017 season of the Qualcomm Institute’s primary performance series gets underway on October 20. The performances and artist residencies were awarded by the Initiative for Digital Exploration of Arts and Sciences (IDEAS) following a peer-review competition open to faculty and graduate students in Music, Theatre and Dance and Visual Arts, as well as any engineering discipline.

Nanoengineer Honored for Fundamental Research on Battery Materials

October 7, 2016

University of California San Diego nanoengineering professor Shirley Meng is the recipient of the 2016 Charles W. Tobias Young Investigator Award from the Electrochemical Society (ECS). The award recognizes a young scientist or engineer who has contributed outstanding theoretical or experimental work in the fields of electrochemistry, electrochemical engineering, or solid-state science and technology.

Six Researchers at UC San Diego Receive $5 Million from NIH for Transformative Research

October 4, 2016

Four biologists, a nanoengineer and a biophysicist at UC San Diego today received a total of more than $5 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health to pursue innovative and transformative research projects.

Dog Poop Microbiome Predicts Canine Inflammatory Bowel Disease

October 3, 2016

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine discovered a pattern of microbes indicative of IBD in dogs. With more than 90 percent accuracy, the team used that information to predict which dogs had IBD. However, they also determined that the gut microbiomes of dogs and humans are not similar enough to use dogs as animal models for humans with this disease. The study is published October 3 in Nature Microbiology.

Maker Faire San Diego: Celebrating ‘Geekdom’ of Every Stripe

September 29, 2016

It’s billed as “The Greatest Show (&Tell) on Earth,” and researchers from the University of California San Diego will once again be part of the spectacle as Maker Faire San Diego takes over Balboa Park.

Big Data Hub Gets a Spoke: NSF Funds Regional Approach to Big Data Challenges in the West

September 29, 2016

UC San Diego, UCLA and Arizona State are partnering on a regional effort in the western U.S. with funding from NSF to enhance “knowledge discovery and real-time interventions from sensory data flows in urban spaces.”

The Pattern Recognition Lab: Coupling Machine Learning to Brain-Inspired Computers

September 28, 2016

Powerful new “brain-inspired” computing capabilities are turning the scientific method on its head by accelerating a “data science” experimental method that detects patterns in data before generating a hypothesis.

EnVision Interns: The Power of Volunteer Student Teams for a Maker Space

September 27, 2016

LED lights in the shape of a 3D printer head light up the word “3D” in the window of the EnVision Arts and Engineering Maker Studio, visible to passersby. The LED interactive display art was one of the projects that a team of interns worked on over the summer as part of a new summer internship program at the EnVision Maker Studio.

Five Ph.D. students named Siebel Scholars

September 27, 2016

Five engineering graduate students from the University of California, San Diego have been named 2017 Siebel Scholars. The Siebel Scholars program recognizes exceptional students at the world’s leading graduate schools of business, computer science, and bioengineering and provides them with a financial award for their final year of studies.

UC San Diego Innovators Earn Biocom Life Science Catalyst Awards

September 27, 2016

Biocom has announced the winners of its inaugural Life Science Catalyst Awards, presented in conjunction with the San Diego Venture Group, and UC San Diego-related innovators are prominent among the awardees.
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