January 31, 2012
Improving fire-fighting techniques in space and getting a better understanding of fuel combustion here on Earth are the focus of a series of experiments on the International Space Station, led by a professor at the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California, San Diego.
November 30, 2023
Pamela Cosman has charted a career path that offers her the freedom to pursue electrical engineering, mentorship and work in gender equity and neurodiversity in STEM.
May 28, 2020
…make sure my session materials are available asynchronously since my students might be in varying time zones,” he said. Back home with his family in Carson, Calif., Aderounmu has been facing difficulty in coming up with ways to ensure sessions are interactive. “I can’t see my students’ feedback in real…
September 29, 2022
The UC San Diego campus community turned out in big numbers last Friday to celebrate the opening of the sleek and soaring Franklin Antonio Hall. The building is not only innovative in its architecture, it’s also ground-breaking in how research teams are organized.
November 17, 2022
Engineers and physicians at UC San Diego have developed a device to non-invasively measure cervical nerve activity in humans, a new tool they say could potentially inform and improve treatments for patients with sepsis or post-traumatic stress disorder.
August 13, 2018
By stacking and connecting layers of stretchable circuits on top of one another, engineers have developed an approach to build soft, pliable “3D stretchable electronics” that can pack a lot of functions while staying thin and small in size. The work is published in the Aug. 13 issue of Nature…
April 8, 2021
…after World War II, science’s ability to map the ocean floor led to a flurry of geological sampling. At the time when the Marine Vertebrate Collection was taking formal shape, so too did the Geological Collection. William Riedel, a renowned micropaleontologist, became the first curator of the Collection in 1955…
September 17, 2024
A fusion of beauty and discovery takes center stage as the University of California San Diego Library presents Art of Science 2024, a vibrant exhibition showcasing the awe-inspiring visuals that emerge from UC San Diego’s pioneering research via the Library’s annual Art of Science contest.
April 26, 2016
The California HIV/AIDS Research Program (CHRP) of University of California has awarded grants totaling $9.4 million to three teams of investigators to provide and evaluate PrEP – the HIV prevention pill – among transgender persons at risk for HIV acquisition in California.
June 25, 2020
…funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), entered phase two in May. “I don’t know of any other systemic approach such as we’re developing here,” said Michael Kalichman, founding director of the UC San Diego Research Ethics Program, and director of the Jacobs School Research Ethics Project. “This is very…
