October 31, 2017
A new project by researchers at the University of California San Diego will investigate a biological mystery that has so far gone unsolved: can organisms use radio frequencies to sense surroundings? If experiments to be conducted through a $3.3 million grant discover positive results, they will not only uncover and…
September 8, 2022
…high-temperature superconductors and quantum materials were developed. It was also in Mayer Hall where Walter Kohn and Lu Jeu Sham created the Kohn-Sham equation as part of their work in establishing density functional theory, or DFT. Shpyrko concluded that, no, there wasn’t magic inside the walls of Mayer Hall, but…
July 7, 2022
…Jolie Tran, a mechanical engineering student and co-lead of the newly formed Triton Solar Decathlon student organization. The UC San Diego student team is one of 18 collegiate teams selected to take part in the inaugural Orange County Sustainability Decathlon. The OCSD is a competition for schools of architecture and…
July 15, 2020
From mRNA vaccines entering clinical trials, to peptide-based vaccines and using molecular farming to scale vaccine production, the COVID-19 pandemic is pushing new and emerging nanotechnologies into the frontlines and the headlines.
December 16, 2014
The University of California, San Diego has been awarded $3 million by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to help move innovative energy storage technologies out of the lab and into the market. UC San Diego will help test and validate the performance of ARPA-E-funded technologies…
September 27, 2021
Last week, as students returned to in-person classes, dozens of UC San Diego students, faculty and staff gathered on campus in one of the outdoor classrooms to build 250 do-it-yourself air filters to support our Return to Learn program.
May 6, 2021
…San Diego team of engineers, surgeons, neuroscientists, and medical device developers is working together to create better customized maps prior to brain tumor removal surgery. In particular, the team is focused on improving the performance of the flexible mats of sensors that rest directly on the surface of the brain…
March 7, 2024
Throughout March, UC San Diego is commemorating Women’s History Month with a special lineup of programs that honor the contributions of women in history, culture and society. This year’s theme is “Women Who Advocate for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.”
March 19, 2015
…the Jacobs School of Engineering and two from the Division of Social Sciences. This year’s recipients are computer scientist Shachar Lovett, economist Paul Niehaus, Padmini Rangamani from the department of mechanical and aerospace engineering, nanoengineer Andrea Tao and neuroscientist Bradley Voytek. The fellowships seek to boost fundamental research by early-career…
October 7, 2015
University of California, San Diego School of Medicine’s Rob Knight, PhD, and his team built a microbiome analysis platform called QIIME (pronounced “chime” and short for “Quantitative Insights Into Microbial Ecology”). This software will now be more readily accessible to hundreds of thousands of researchers around the world through BaseSpace,…
