January 25, 2018
…Research Laboratory, Army Corps of Engineers, National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Defense Advanced Projects Agency (DARPA). “There is today a shortage of engineers that have experience with drone technologies,” Christensen said. “The aerodrome will allow us to fill that gap.”
May 21, 2024
A $21M gift from Aiiso Yufeng Li (Jeff) and his wife, DongDong Li (Doreen), honors unique efforts at UC San Diego to link chemical and nano engineering more strongly. In recognition of this gift, the department will be named the Aiiso Yufeng Li Family Department of Chemical and Nano Engineering.
June 13, 2019
…the National Science Foundation (NSF) Innovation Corps (I-Corps) which teaches lean startup methodology to faculty, students and staff interested in launching a startup. This year, IGE launched a new I-Corps medical device workshop series that included 13 UC San Diego and affiliated startups, competing for a series of grants to…
November 13, 2014
…Aimee Chabot Honored at NSF Headquarters Coming from a long line of veterans, John Cerda wanted to do his part to defend the country that had provided so much for his family. A UC San Diego alumnus and staff member, he served four years on active duty in the U.S.…
January 17, 2024
Sensors built with a new manufacturing approach are capable of recording activity deep within the brain from large populations of individual neurons–with a resolution of as few as one or two neurons–in humans as well as a range of animal models.
November 18, 2021
…UC San Diego. Prather’s NSF-funded Center for Aerosol Impacts on Chemistry of the Environment (CAICE) is slated to be one of the first users of SOARS in the summer of 2022 in an experiment that will aim to examine the composition of the gases and sea spray aerosols coming out…
August 13, 2020
…co-PI of an ongoing NSF Early Concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) project, which promotes active-learning strategies in two-year, Hispanic-serving institutions (2Y-HSI) through collaborative professional development for STEM faculty and UC San Diego graduate students. A collaboration with Professor Stanley Lo and graduate students of the Math and Science Education…
January 9, 2014
…portion of a successful NSF CAREER grant and helped him turn the lab’s work – developing synthetic cells and studying how the very first biological cells may have spontaneously formed from simple chemicals – into interactive lessons for high school students. The result is a Hands-On Lab course through Education…
June 18, 2020
…SARS-Co-V-2 virus. This research was supported by NIH (GM132826), NSF (RAPID MCB-2032054), an award from the RCSA Research Corp., a UC San Diego Moore's Cancer Center 2020 SARS-COV-2 seed grant, the Visible Molecular Cell Consortium and the Irish Research Council.
May 6, 2021
…part of a 2020 NSF-funded workshop he co-organized. The workshop focused on the current progress and gaps in the clinical translation of devices that interact directly with the brain, the spinal column or the wider nervous system 〈called "neuromodulation devices"〉. In particular, the workshop focused on the work being done…
