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NanoEngineering Professor Joseph Wang Appointed to SAIC Endowed Chair in Engineering at UC San Diego

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NanoEngineering professor Joseph Wang has been named to the Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) Endowed Chair in Engineering at the University of California, San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering. Wang is consistently one of the world’s most cited engineers and chemists and a recognized leader in multiple fields including nanomachines, nanobioelectronics and sensing technologies. He currently serves as chair of the Department of NanoEngineering and director of the Center for Wearable Sensors at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering.

NanoEngineering Professor Joseph Wang Appointed to SAIC Endowed Chair in Engineering at UC San Diego

Three UC San Diego Professors Named AAAS Fellows

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The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the largest general science organization in the United States, has awarded the distinction of Fellow to three UC San Diego professors.

Three UC San Diego Professors Named AAAS Fellows

Grant Gives New Breath to Patients Suffering from Severe Pulmonary Hypertension

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UC San Diego Health System is a world leader in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH), and now with a $7.6 million grant, has helped launch the first national CTEPH registry to improve best practices and patient care.

Grant Gives New Breath to Patients Suffering from Severe Pulmonary Hypertension

UC San Diego Excels in Nature ‘Total Research Output’ Ranking

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The University of California, San Diego has been ranked 6th in the nation – and 2nd among all U.S. public institutions – for total research output.

UC San Diego Excels in Nature ‘Total Research Output’ Ranking

Selfies Reach New Heights with Wearable Drone

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A team of developers that includes UC San Diego cognitive science alumna Jelena Jovanovic has won the $500,000 grand prize in Intel’s Make It Wearable challenge for their wrist-mounted drone. The device—named Nixie—can travel a fixed distance from its owner to take a photo or video of them, and then return. Images or video can instantly be shared with friends.

Selfies Reach New Heights with Wearable Drone

SDSC/UC San Diego Achieves a Hat Trick with 2014 HPCwire Awards

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The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, has achieved a hat trick in garnering three awards for its university-wide WIFIRE project as part of the annual HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards presented at the 2014 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC14), in New Orleans, Louisiana.