University of California, San Diego undergraduate Angela Zou has been awarded the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, one of the most competitive and prestigious awards in the nation. From a field of 1,206 applicants, Zou was one of 260 students to receive the scholarship, and the only recipient from UC San Diego.
Students at the University of California, San Diego have created RIFFA, a simple framework for communicating data from a computer processor to a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). The open-source technology, which can be used with any FPGA vendor on Windows or Linux, could lead to faster design times and higher profit margins for a wide range of industries.
The Qualcomm Institute and SDSC are producing online courses about the Internet of Things and Big Data, respectively. The courses, to debut in the fall, represent two of the three series of courses announced this week by Coursera' new Global Skills Initiative.
The mystartupXX accelerator program, a collaboration of the California Institute for Innovation and Development at the Rady School of Management at UC San Diego and the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, has been chosen for a second time as one of the winners of the national Growth Accelerator Fund competition and recipient of a $50,000 award from the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine report that more than one in four female sex workers in two Mexican cities on the U.S. border entered the sex trade younger than age 18; one in eight before their 16th birthday. These women were more than three times more likely to become infected with HIV than those who started sex work as adults.
NSF has awarded Calit2, CITRIS and nearly 20 participating institutions a $5 million, 5-year grant to create the Pacific Research Platform to enable a science-driven data freeway system in the western U.S. with speeds 1,000 times faster that today's traffic between campuses.
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