July 7, 2016
An international team of researchers has demonstrated a new way to increase the robustness and energy storage capability of a particular class of “lithium-rich” cathode materials—by using a carbon dioxide-based gas mixture to create oxygen vacancies at the material’s surface. Researchers said the treatment improved the energy density—the amount of…
October 10, 2014
…of California, San Diego and City of San Diego Lifeguards, the popular surf spot has its first ever environmentally-friendly restroom facility.
March 23, 2017
…Many UC San Diego students, researchers, faculty and staff members plan to participate in the marches in D.C. and San Diego. Robert Cooper, a postdoctoral research in the UC San Diego Division of Biological Sciences, is co-organizing the San Diego march, along with attorney Melissa Slawson and entrepreneur Alex Eyman.…
March 9, 2021
Bioengineers at UC San Diego and San Diego State University have discovered a key feature that allows cancer cells to break from typical cell behavior and migrate away from stiffer tissue in a tumor, shedding light on the process of metastasis and offering possible new targets for cancer therapies.
January 23, 2015
Andrew Alm Benson, a distinguished emeritus professor of biology at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, and renowned as one of the world’s leading plant scientists of the twentieth century, died peacefully from natural causes on Jan. 16, 2015, at UC San Diego’s Thornton Hospital. He was 97.
December 12, 2016
…of California, San Diego. LifeCycled Materials, led by two Jacobs School alumni, won the competition and a $10,000 prize. Evolution Solutions, a startup cofounded by students at the Jacobs School and the Rady School of Management, came in third and received $2,500. Finally, One Village Philippines, a team that is…
February 15, 2024
The UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering is launching two new master’s degree specializations designed for working professionals. The two new specializations are focused on the systems engineering of Cyber-Physical Social Systems and Value Supply Chains.
June 8, 2021
A new 3D bioprinter developed by UC San Diego nanoengineers operates at record speed—it can print a 96-well array of living human tissue samples within 30 minutes. The technology could help accelerate high-throughput preclinical drug screening and make it less costly.
May 5, 2016
From the experiences of an East African immigrant working as a dishwasher to those of a long-term, loving couple, UC San Diego’s 2016 Wagner New Play Festival features five new plays, May 3 – 12, in The Joan and Irwin Jacobs Theatre District located on the La Jolla campus. Two…
June 17, 2024
Researchers at UC San Diego found an unusually large brain may be the first sign of autism and visible as early as the first trimester.
