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Exploring the Future of Innovation in San Diego

September 28, 2023

UC San Diego-powered startups, incubators and accelerator programs took center stage during the second annual Innovation Day at Petco Park, highlighting the university’s world-class, dynamic innovation ecosystem.

Education, Collaboration Help Launch Startups at UC San Diego

May 1, 2024

The Design and Innovation Building is a modern 74,000-square-foot space that integrates rigorous education and industry collaboration across its four distinct floors, each uniquely designed and positioned to propel thinkers, dreamers and doers upward as they progress through each level.

Mysterious Holes in Antarctic Sea Ice Explained by Years of Robotic Data

June 10, 2019

For the first time oceanographers monitored a polynya – or gap – in Antarctic winter sea ice. It was an opportunity that came about as a result of uncanny timing and a seasoned Scripps oceanographer’s knowledge of the sea.

Student Startup ‘Limber’ Makes 3D-Printed Prostheses Affordable and Accessible

May 19, 2022

…also plan to incorporate sensors within the prosthesis for better performance. Their work will be documented in several scientific articles set to appear this year. “Digital twin technology combined with 3D-printing holds tremendous promise to change the way prosthetics are manufactured–and made accessible,” Kuester, the structural engineering professor, said.

Transforming Audacious Speculations into Reality

April 3, 2013

Engineers who think like artists, physicists who thinks like dancers, scientists who think like poets, and designers who think like Mother Nature: These are some of the researchers from the University of California, San Diego on display at a public event on Friday, April 12 that will extol and explore…

A New Neuromorphic Chip for AI on the Edge, at a Small Fraction of the Energy and Size

August 17, 2022

An international team of researchers has designed and built a chip that runs computations directly in memory and can run a wide variety of AI applications–all at a fraction of the energy consumed by computing platforms for general-purpose AI computing.

Scientists Design Way to Use Harmless Bacteria to Detect Heavy Metals in Drinking Water

February 27, 2020

…water using bacteria as sensors of contamination. The team recently published their advances in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS). “Our top priority is to do work we feel proud of and will have an impact,” said Cookson. While some options for residential water testing of…

El Niño Beach Survey From Air Provides Glimpse of What’s to Come for the Coast

February 11, 2016

…instrumentation and inertial motion sensors, scans swaths of beach and ocean more than 600 meters (1,970 feet) wide measuring coastal topography on the scale of centimeters. “The Department of the Navy is keenly interested in understanding the potential effects of climate change and sea-level rise, and this coastal survey is…

Pioneering Black Carbon Researcher Receives U.N. ‘Champion of the Earth’ Award

September 20, 2013

Veerabhadran Ramanathan, a distinguished professor of climate and atmospheric sciences at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, whose landmark research showed that cutting emissions of black carbon and other short lived climate pollutants can significantly lessen the impacts of regional and global climate change, improve the health of millions…

Three UC San Diego Researchers Receive Top Honors with NIH Director’s Awards

October 1, 2019

Three University of California San Diego researchers have received prestigious awards through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program, including the Pioneer Award, the program’s top honor.

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