October 22, 2012
“A Mercedes Benz isn’t designed to function in the Sahara Desert,” notes Dr. Eliah Aronoff-Spencer of the University of California, San Diego. “So why are we designing medical equipment for developing countries the same way we do for developed ones?”
January 8, 2015
…probe, algorithms and the wireless infrastructure that enables researchers to easily record brain data from patients suffering from brain disease and disorders, from autistic children to soldiers who have served in Afghanistan. Low won the Entrepreneur Challenge in 2008. His work has been highlighted in The New York Times and…
November 17, 2022
Engineers and physicians at UC San Diego have developed a device to non-invasively measure cervical nerve activity in humans, a new tool they say could potentially inform and improve treatments for patients with sepsis or post-traumatic stress disorder.
October 4, 2018
…is known in the wireless communications industry for the “Viterbi Algorithm,” which has forever changed the way people connect and communicate. Viterbi spent equal portions of his career in industry, having previously co-founded Linkabit Corporation, and in academia as an engineering professor—first at UCLA and then at UC San Diego,…
April 3, 2015
What is it about yoga that makes it such a healthful practice? Is it adding mindfulness to movement that does a body good, or adding movement to mindfulness?
January 12, 2015
A new method that creates large-area patterns of three-dimensional nanoshapes from metal sheets represents a potential manufacturing system to inexpensively mass produce innovations such as “plasmonic metamaterials” for advanced technologies.
August 9, 2013
In a first-of-its-kind academic forum, an international audience of more than 60 distinguished scientists gathered at the University of California, San Diego to discuss the future of brain-mapping research and trans-Atlantic collaborations.
November 12, 2013
Crowdsourcing, solar-powered sensors, a mobile app, and a Kickstarter fundraising campaign. That may sound like the trappings of a hot new high-tech startup, but this is the Japanese Friendship Garden Haiku Hunt. It’s a 21st-century scavenger hunt for visitors of all ages who will be able to use their Android…
October 16, 2014
…the local defense and wireless industries, as well as manufacturing facilities across the border in Tijuana. Partnering will be crucial for the creation of the robotics hub, said Qualcomm Institute Director Ramesh Rao. “A world class ecosystem will emerge here once UC San Diego steps in more fully—in partnership with…
December 8, 2022
UC San Diego’s ranks now include 18 fellows of the National Academy of Inventors. Three professors have been named 2022 NAI fellows, the highest professional distinction awarded to academic inventors.
