Andrew Kahng is part of several major national initiatives that together are transforming how future engineers learn to design and build computer chips. His work is helping UC San Diego become a driving force in the nation’s growing semiconductor innovation ecosystem.
Engineers have developed a spray-on polymer coating that could help plants resist harmful bacterial infections and survive drought. Interestingly, spraying just part of a leaf results in bacterial immunity and improved drought tolerance for the entire plant.
A new study has found that the microbial communities making up the gastrointestinal tract of rats are shaped by the genes of their social partners. The findings could have implications for human health.
"I use the work I did at UC San Diego and the exposure that I got at QI and other places on a day-to-day basis [in my job at Apple]," says Raghav Subbaraman (’24), who recently won the Paul Baran Young Scholar Award from the Marconi Society.
If you’ve ever wondered where the new leading tech innovators might emerge, they may have just paid us a visit. Several of San Diego County’s most promising high school coders recently visited SDSC to learn more about coding as part of the 2025 Congressional App Challenge.
Experts across UC San Diego have united to launch the Soil Health Center at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Established in fall 2025, the center brings together an interdisciplinary team that’s digging — sometimes literally — into research on building and maintaining healthy soils.
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