February 21, 2013
…areas of science, technology, engineering and math. A theme of longstanding importance to President Obama is the centrality of science, technology, and innovation to America’s ongoing global leadership. However, according to a Department of Labor report from January 2013, there are more than 3 million jobs that American businesses cannot…
January 24, 2017
Underwater robots developed by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego offer scientists an extraordinary new tool to study ocean currents and the tiny creatures they transport. Swarms of these underwater robots helped answer some basic questions about the most abundant life forms in…
March 27, 2017
A $75 million gift from Facebook pioneer Taner Halicioglu will establish the Halicioglu Institute for Data Science at UC San Diego. The computer science alumnus hopes that the new institute will promote a cross-disciplinary field that is considered the backbone of many other disciplines.
May 12, 2022
…leader Dolores Huerta, NASA engineer Dr. Aprille J. Ericsson and Pixar Visual Effects Supervisor Danielle Feinberg—share a commitment to working to inspire young people, especially girls, who will be the leaders of the future. Lynn Sherr “By bringing together remarkable women from different fields, we get fascinating perspectives on the…
June 10, 2016
A team of physicists that visualized the internal nanostructure of an intact butterfly wing has discovered two physical attributes that make those structures so bright and colorful.
October 15, 2019
UC San Diego bioengineers are a step closer to making CAR T-cell therapy safer, more precise and easy to control. They developed a system that allows them to select where and when CAR T cells get turned on so that they destroy cancer cells without harming normal cells.
February 1, 2017
UC San Diego alumnus Ross Tate (Ph.D. ’12), now a computer-science professor at Cornell, will receive the Dahl-Nygaard Prize in 2017 for “fundamental contributions to type systems with applications to object-oriented languages.”
September 19, 2016
CSE Prof. Tajana Rosing is the inaugural holder of an academic chair endowed in 2012 by John J. and Susan M. Fratamico to promote scholarship in fields including engineering and the life sciences.
February 25, 2020
Researchers from the University of California San Diego, University of Texas at Austin, Stanford University and Mozilla have developed a new framework to improve web browser security. The framework, called RLBox, has been integrated into Firefox to complement its other security-hardening efforts.
October 10, 2011
…government on scientists and engineers. Chien is the only engineer among the seven medalists announced last week. “As someone working at the interface of biology, medicine and engineering, I am greatly honored to receive this award which recognizes that such an interdisciplinary approach is essential to translating fundamental research into…
