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Former Cyber Security Grad Students Seal $3 Million Deal for Drone Security Venture

Business & Economics

Grant Jordan and Paul Wicks (M.S. ’14) are former students in the Master's program in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California San Diego. In 2015, they co-created a security-related company called SkySafe to protect organizations from illegal or dangerous incursions from commercial drones and their owners. Now, one of the top venture-capital firms in Silicon Valley, Andreessen Horowitz, has agreed to lead a $3 million investment in the fledgling company.

Former Cyber Security Grad Students Seal $3 Million Deal for Drone Security Venture

SDSC Supercomputers, CIPRES Gateway Help Define New “Tree of Life”

Science & Environment

An outline for a new tree of life, depicting the evolution of life on this planet that included more than 1,000 new types of bacteria and Archaea lurking in the Earth’s nooks and crannies, was made possible with the help of supercomputing resources and a phylogenetics “gateway” created at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), based at the University of California San Diego.

SDSC Supercomputers, CIPRES Gateway Help Define New “Tree of Life”

Insights from UC San Diego Sustainable Power and Energy Center Research Summit

Science & Environment

The Sustainable Power and Energy Center (SPEC) at the University of California San Diego recently held a Research Summit for interested industry partners. Attendees from a variety of industry sectors gathered at UC San Diego to interact with faculty and graduate students, tour the UC San Diego microgrid and attend the Jacobs School’s Research Expo in the afternoon.

Insights from UC San Diego Sustainable Power and Energy Center Research Summit

Stretchable, Flexible, Wearable Solar Cells Take Top Prize at Research Expo 2016

Science & Environment

Solar cells that are stretchable, flexible and wearable won the day and the best poster award from a pool of 215 at Research Expo 2016 April 14 at the University of California San Diego. The winning nanoengineering researchers aim to manufacture small, flexible devices that can power watches, LEDs and wearable sensors. The ultimate goal is to design and build much bigger flexible solar cells that could be used as power sources and shelter in natural disasters and other emergencies.

Stretchable, Flexible, Wearable Solar Cells Take Top Prize at Research Expo 2016

Smoking Cessation Drugs Do Not Elevate Risk of Serious Neuropsychiatric Adverse Effects

Health & Behavior

Compared to the nicotine patch and a placebo, the smoking cessation aids varenicline (marketed as Chantix in the U.S.) and bupropion (Zyban) do not show a significant increase in neuropsychiatric adverse events, reports an international team of researchers in a study published online April 22 in the journal The Lancet.

Smoking Cessation Drugs Do Not Elevate Risk of Serious Neuropsychiatric Adverse Effects

UC San Diego History Professor Receives Treasured First-Book Award

Humanities

University of California San Diego Department of History Professor Mark G. Hanna recently earned the 2016 Frederick Jackson Turner Award, an annual prize from the Organization of American Historians (OAH) given for an author’s first scholarly book about a certain aspect of American history. Hanna earned the prestigious award for his book, “Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570 – 1740” (University of North Carolina Press), which demonstrates that pirates were essential to British colonialism, including patterns of development that shaped early America.