September 27, 2012
…fluidics, materials and battery storage will help us tackle vexing energy problems.” Researchers will create a world where truly smart materials will allow your shoes, your shirt, your dinner plate to actively respond to your will, Brin predicted. The building also will help heal the divide described by philosopher C.…
June 13, 2019
…application in fiber-optic networks, data storage and satellite communications. UC San Diego startups are known for contributing to the region’s economy. Cavogene, a recent startup that began at UC San Diego, was founded by four colleagues in the School of Medicine's Department of Anesthesiology: Associate Adjunct Professor Brian P. Head,…
March 1, 2023
Four UC San Diego faculty have been selected as 2023 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellows, a prestigious award for early-career scientists of outstanding promise. The fellowships are awarded in recognition of distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial contributions.
May 14, 2024
Two teams led by scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography are among four selected by NASA to put forward concept studies for future satellite missions to help better understand how our planet is responding to climate change.
June 29, 2017
Computer science graduate student Tianyin Xu will complete his Ph.D. later this summer, but he received five faculty job offers from top-notch schools, including the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he will become a tenure-track assistant professor next January.
February 4, 2021
Modern forecasting methods fueled by advances in understanding and predicting atmospheric river storms have enabled U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) operators to better optimize water resources at Lake Mendocino, a Northern California reservoir.
June 22, 2017
5G capabilities will make it possible to harness sensor technologies, virtual reality, artificial intelligence and machine learning for unprecedented applications—applications discussed at length during the conference.
December 11, 2017
Three computer scientists at UC San Diego—Ravi Ramamoorthi, Alexander Vardy and Geoffrey M. Voelker—have been elected Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society.
September 7, 2011
Five teams of scientists from multiple campuses of the University of California and a Southern California hospital have been awarded up to $100,000 each to commercialize their ideas for new, lower cost health care technologies that will address a long-standing need for more affordable and efficient chronic disease management and…
April 16, 2014
In 2013, Qualcomm Institute director Ramesh Rao extended an offer to provide support for development of as many as 10 massive open online courses (MOOCs) – especially those experimenting with different types of online course production and delivery.
