November 15, 2012
…Coleman, Professor, Department of Bioengineering Todd P. Coleman Can you tell us a bit about your background? I’m from Dallas, Texas, and I attended the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, where I earned a B.S. in both electrical engineering and computer engineering. I was interested in wireless communications and…
August 7, 2015
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…
September 27, 2012
…Jennifer Kaehms, a fourth-year bioengineering student at Eleanor Roosevelt College, said she was also accepted to study engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, where Khosla previously served as Dean of Engineering. “I am looking forward to the next couple of years to see the changes, especially because he does have strong…
July 20, 2023
Soon after Alexander Chen began as a chemical engineering graduate student at UC San Diego, he stumbled on a problem that he couldn’t help but work to fix. Instead of just admiring the problem, Chen built a grassroots mentorship program for undergraduates considering graduate school.
July 21, 2021
UC San Diego is one of six universities invited to participate in the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance, a scientific collaboration that aims to transform human health on a global scale through the discovery and translation of the biological principles underlying human performance.
December 2, 2021
Bioengineering graduate students Nicole Felix-Velez and Talia Baddour work with Professor Brian Aguado to understand sex-based differences in cardiovascular diseases. Photos by David Baillot/UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering . Developing Sex-specific Treatments for Heart Disease UC San Diego bioengineer advances equity in science, and among scientists As a…
April 10, 2014
…a UC San Diego bioengineering graduate student, support from the ARCS Foundation has enabled him to focus completely on his research of cancer metastasis. Aung studies metastasis from a biophysics perspective, trying to understand how cancer cells push, pull and tear through endothelial cells (the cells lining the blood vessels)…
October 27, 2014
Scientists have created cells with fluorescent dyes that change color in response to specific neurochemicals. By implanting these cells into living mammalian brains, they have shown how neurochemical signaling changes as a food reward drives learning, they report in Nature Methods online October 26.
November 25, 2013
Six professors at the University of California, San Diego have been named 2013 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the nation’s largest general science organization.
October 13, 2020
Diverse teams across University of California San Diego, with collaborators elsewhere, have received two 5-year grants totaling $14.3 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Common Fund to continue their work as a 4D Nucleome Research Hub and Center.
