October 26, 2011
…readings to physicians via wireless connections—are also the subject of a story in The Atlantic’s current issue by writers Adrian Slywotzky and Tom Main titled “The Quiet Health-Care Revolution.” “The thing we know the least about is the inside of our body, and that’s just nuts,” remarked Smarr during the…
October 11, 2018
…of the Center for Wireless Communications and the California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), now the Qualcomm Institute. He worked with the Bioengineering Department to build Powell-Focht Bioengineering Hall, the first privately funded academic building on the general campus. Since his retirement from UC San Diego, he has…
June 19, 2014
…manufacturer of satellite and wireless technology. He has since played an essential role in recruiting UC San Diego’s graduates to work at ViaSat, and most recently, the company gave a $1 million gift to the UC San Diego Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination. The Harts’ philanthropy spans many…
May 21, 2024
A $21M gift from Aiiso Yufeng Li (Jeff) and his wife, DongDong Li (Doreen), honors unique efforts at UC San Diego to link chemical and nano engineering more strongly. In recognition of this gift, the department will be named the Aiiso Yufeng Li Family Department of Chemical and Nano Engineering.
November 30, 2023
Pamela Cosman has charted a career path that offers her the freedom to pursue electrical engineering, mentorship and work in gender equity and neurodiversity in STEM.
August 22, 2023
Move over, ChatGPT: These artificial intelligence-powered technologies and innovations being developed and implemented at UC San Diego could lead to the next developments in the “AI revolution.”
September 7, 2011
Five teams of scientists from multiple campuses of the University of California and a Southern California hospital have been awarded up to $100,000 each to commercialize their ideas for new, lower cost health care technologies that will address a long-standing need for more affordable and efficient chronic disease management and…
May 14, 2015
Representatives from the first seven companies admitted into the Qualcomm Institute Innovation Space wowed the campus community at a press briefing and networking reception to mark the official opening of the new 6,000-square-foot facility inside Atkinson Hall on the UC San Diego campus. The event took place May 7.
May 19, 2016
…fruit fly brain to wireless implantable sensors for therapeutic use in humans. “It’s exciting to see how much has been accomplished in this short time,” Greenspan said. “We’ve made progress on connecting people to one another, and we’ve gotten a number of collaborative projects off the ground. “I was told…
May 20, 2015
On June 15, the Qualcomm Institute will kick off its new season of nine works involving residencies and performances funded by the institute’s Initiative for Digital Exploration of Arts and Sciences (IDEAS). The interdisciplinary work, titled CrowdCAVE, will use two of the Qualcomm Institute’s key visualization spaces: the StarCAVE virtual-reality…
