December 7, 2017
…system developed by Mercier, nanoengineering professor Joseph Wang, and their colleagues at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering. Wang and Mercier are the director and co-director, respectively, of the Center for Wearable Sensors at UC San Diego. Their team published the work in Biosensors and Bioelectronics. Custom-designed Android…
January 19, 2017
…Kaylan, a fourth year nanoengineering major and mechanical lead for the team. “It contains three compartments—the top will be filled with the unfermented beer, and the second will contain the yeast. When the rover lands on the moon with our experiment, a valve will open between the two compartments, allowing…
May 7, 2024
Engineering and computer science undergraduate students who take part in mentorship programs are more involved in campus communities than those who don’t, according to a study at UC San Diego. The study establishes an empirical –and quantifiable– connection between mentoring programs and campus involvement.
May 7, 2015
…San Diego department of nanoengineering on research pertaining to the creation of flexible organic photovoltaics. Valle recently earned a graduate research fellowship from the National Science Foundation, which he applied for with help from his faculty mentor. “The McNair Program allowed me to spend a summer working in a laboratory…
January 14, 2016
…from structural engineering to nanoengineering. Projects in other classes in fall quarter included designing and programming robots, programming model boats for autonomous movement and designing and building miniature cars powered by hydrogen fuel cells. Back in the Main Gym on Dec. 9, the three-hour-long Star Wars-themed competition remained lively thanks…
September 26, 2024
Excitement is high on campus as today marks the first day of classes at UC San Diego. We spoke with several of UC San Diego’s newest Tritons about why they chose UC San Diego, what inspired them to choose their major and their advice for prospective students.
October 26, 2017
…developmental biology David Fenning, nanoengineering Justin Meyer, ecology, behavior and evolution Michael Yip, electrical and computer engineering Quinn Konopacky, physics Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, Global Policy and Strategy and Rady School of Management Amy Non, anthropology Daniel Navon, sociology Danielle Raudenbush, sociology Julie Burelle, theatre Natacha Diels, music Simeon…
October 10, 2019
…make batteries safer in NanoEngineering Professor Zheng Chen’s lab. “Every other day, I’ve been getting up at 5:15 a.m. and going to the beach on a hike with my friends,” he said. It’s a group which includes students from the United States, and students from across the border. “It’s so…
February 25, 2021
UC San Diego was awarded five COVID-19 Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) projects by the National Institutes of Health totaling nearly $33 million, which will fund efforts that range from managing a large data center to expanding testing in disadvantaged communities.
September 19, 2011
Five bioengineering Ph.D. students from the University of California, San Diego whose research is aimed at improving human health are among the 2012 recipients of the annual Siebel Scholars awards.
