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UC San Diego Engineer Andrew Kahng Awarded Ho-Am Prize

April 5, 2019

University of California San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Professor Andrew B. Kahng has been awarded the 2019 Ho-Am Prize for Engineering, the highest award for engineering in Korea.

San Diego Supercomputer Center’s ‘Comet’ Aids in Sickle Cell Research Discovery

December 10, 2020

Researchers recently created detailed simulations on the Comet system at the San Diego Supercomputer Center showing how these stiff red blood cells flow through blood vessels, deforming and colliding along the way.

Triton Innovation Challenge Honors Innovative Startups With Environmental Focus

May 5, 2022

…Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering, Rady School of Management and Scripps Institution of Oceanography celebrated a decade of support for environmentally focused commercial and technological innovation with the tenth annual Triton Innovation Challenge business competition. The April 27 event recognized engineers, physicians, biologists and business students who make up a…

Scripps Delivers Science to James Cameron’s Historic Dive into the Abyss

April 17, 2012

…Cameron’s “Deepsea Challenge,” Scripps engineer Kevin Hardy (center, with hook) deploys a deep ocean vehicle (DOV), or “lander” that he developed to explore the mysteries of the world’s deepest points. When filmmaker James Cameron recently reached the depths of the Mariana Trench, the deepest spot in the world, the historic…

Scripps and SoCalGas System to Use Algae to Capture Carbon Dioxide

July 30, 2012

Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego (Scripps) and Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) have entered into an agreement focusing on the design of an innovative system in which algae consume carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from natural gas combustion and cost-effectively convert it into valuable byproducts such as biomethane,…

UC San Diego Alumnus, Qualcomm Co-Founder and Philanthropist, Franklin Antonio, Has Died

May 16, 2022

Franklin Antonio, a University of California San Diego alumnus from 1974, co-founder of Qualcomm and generous philanthropist, has died.

Scripps Oceanography Researchers Engineer Breakthrough for Biofuel Production

November 20, 2013

Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have developed a method for greatly enhancing biofuel production in tiny marine algae.

Engineer Receives Award From Energy Department to Advance Concentrating Solar Power Research

June 12, 2018

…of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of California San Diego, has received a $1.18 million dollar award from the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office to develop technology that can advance next-generation concentrating solar power (CSP) systems. The project is aimed at developing an ultra-sensitive infrared…

‘Monster Tumors’ Could Offer New Glimpse at Human Development

November 4, 2020

Finding just the right model to study human development—from the early embryonic stage onward—has been a challenge for scientists over the last decade. Now, bioengineers at the University of California San Diego have homed in on an unusual candidate: teratomas.

Researchers Engineer Bacteria That Can Detect Tumor DNA

August 10, 2023

Creating new technologically advanced sensors, scientists from UC San Diego and Australia have engineered bacteria that detect the presence of tumor DNA in live organisms. Their innovation could pave the way to new biosensors capable of identifying various infections, cancers and other diseases.

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