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CENIC Recognizes Technology Projects to Combat California Wildfires

WIFIRE, HPWREN, AlertTahoe Projects Win 2018 Innovations in Networking Awards

Promise of UC San Diego Junior Faculty Gains Attention of Sloan Foundation

Four early-career scientists at UC San Diego have been recognized for their outstanding promise in the fields of physics and computational & evolutionary molecular biology as 2018 Sloan Research Fellows.

UC San Diego Bioengineering Student Wins Churchill Scholarship

Aswini Krishnan, a fourth-year bioengineering major at the University of California San Diego, has been awarded a Churchill Scholarship, one of the most prestigious and competitive awards available to American students pursuing science, mathematics and engineering fields. The award provides one year of funding to pursue a master’s degree at Winston Churchill College at the University of Cambridge. Krishnan is the fourth UC San Diego student to receive the award since the program’s inception in 1963.

UC San Diego Innovator in Data Storage Technologies Elected to National Academy of Engineering

Back in 1956, IBM built the first disk drive. It was the size of two refrigerators and held a total of five megabytes—enough storage capacity to handle about 30 seconds of video. That’s a stark contrast to today’s hard drives, which can hold tens of terabytes of data and fit in the palm of your hand. One of the key innovators who helped drive this remarkable evolution is Eric Fullerton, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and nanoengineering at UC San Diego.

National Academy of Sciences Awards Scripps Oceanographer for Scientific Leadership

Dean Roemmich, a distinguished professor of oceanography at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego, will receive the 2018 Alexander Agassiz Medal from the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).

Computer Science Major Honored for Undergraduate Research in Applied Cryptography

5th-year Computer Science major Julia Len is runner-up for Computing Research Association's Outstanding Undergraduate Research Awards, specifically for her high-profile paper on hash functions in cryptography.