December 4, 2023
UC San Diego has the highest number of influential voices in the University of California system and ranks 7th highest among universities worldwide, according to Clarivate’s 2023 Highly Cited Researchers list.
September 23, 2024
Since 2020 when the Halicioğlu Data Science Institute (HDSI) at UC San Diego established its Senior Capstone Program, it has become the premier series for all fourth-year undergraduate data science majors at HDSI – a pioneering interdisciplinary institute advancing data science and AI education within the new School of Computing,…
February 9, 2017
…researcher Jun Zhang and bioengineering undergraduate Taylor West are making artificial muscle fibers that can quickly contract and relax while holding weight. The muscle fibers are made of silver-coated nylon threads that are spun into a tightly coiled structure. When voltage is applied to the fibers, they heat up and…
August 18, 2021
In fiscal year 2021 (July 1-June 30), UC San Diego earned $1.54 billion in sponsored research funding, a 6% increase over the previous year. This is the largest number ever for the university and marks the 12th consecutive year the campus has earned more than $1 billion in funding to…
December 12, 2023
Jacobs School of Engineering professors Eric Fullerton and Prashant Mali have been named 2023 Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors. The distinction honors academic inventors whose work has made a tangible impact on the quality of life, economic development, and the welfare of society.
March 12, 2020
…said Cristina Barney, a bioengineering student and the Schoolhouse Ghana undergraduate advisor. “We can’t change the reliability or cost of the internet in Ghana or in that school location. We can’t do much about that, so we saw an opportunity to change the perspective and maybe instead of trying to…
January 5, 2023
Researchers led by UC San Diego computer scientist Tajana Simunic-Rosing have entered in a $35 million contract from the Semiconductor Research Corporation to make computing orders of magnitude faster and more efficient. A group of 10 universities will band together to create the PRISM center.
March 6, 2014
…San Diego as a bioengineering major, which required her to take a Java class. That class changed her mind. She quickly switched her major to computer science with an emphasis on bioinformatics. Jayaprakash recalls that as a kid, she was not interested in Barbie dolls like other girls her age.…
July 15, 2013
The University of California, San Diego has named professor Albert P. (Al) Pisano, a highly accomplished mechanical engineer from UC Berkeley, as the next dean of the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering.
August 27, 2014
The National Biomedical Computation Resource (NBCR) at the University of California, San Diego has received $9 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The funding will allow NBCR to continue its work connecting biomedical scientists with supercomputing power and emerging information technologies.
