News Archive
July 25, 2008
Von Liebig Center Hosts First Annual Technology Showcase
Technologies developed at UC San Diego landed in the spotlight on July 16, 2008 at an entrepreneurship technology showcase organized by UC San Diego’s von Liebig Center. Full Story
July 22, 2008
Bioengineering Undergrad Explores Other Side of World
A bioengineering undergraduate documents her experiences as a summer researcher in New Zealand. Full Story
July 21, 2008
UC San Diego Launches Institute of Engineering in Medicine to Accelerate Innovative Health Care Technologies
The world’s top engineers, physicians and scientists are joining forces to conceptualize, develop and bring to reality the future tools and treatments of 21st century health care through UC San Diego’s new Institute of Engineering in Medicine. Full Story
July 10, 2008
Smart Bomb Nanoparticle Strategy Impacts Metastasis
A new treatment strategy using molecular “smart bombs” to target metastasis with anti-cancer drugs leads to good results using significantly lower doses of toxic chemotherapy, with less collateral damage to surrounding tissue, according to a collaborative team of researchers at the University of California, San Diego. Full Story
July 2, 2008
UC San Diego Undergraduates Forge New Area of Bioinformatics
Undergraduate students from the University of California San Diego have forged a new area of bioinformatics that may improve genomic and proteomic annotations and unlock a collection of stubborn biological mysteries. Their work will be published in the July 2008 issue of the journal Genome Research. Full Story
June 30, 2008
Finding a Single Mechanism for Hypertension, Insulin Resistance, and Immune Suppression
Many of the 75 million Americans with essential hypertension also develop diabetes and other complications in addition to their high blood pressure, and researchers have discovered a common molecular mechanism in a strain of rat that explains why such metabolic disorders arise together in mammals. Full Story
June 20, 2008
Jacobs School Ring Ceremony 2008
More than 350 graduating seniors from the Jacobs School participated in the annual Ring Ceremony on Saturday, June 14. Full Story
June 4, 2008
University of California San Diego Students Take First, Second and Fourth Place at Prestigious Business Plan Competition
Jacobs School students took first and second place in a prestigious business plan competition organized at the University of Southern California. Full Story
May 30, 2008
UC San Diego Entrepreneurship, May Madness and the Final Five
On Saturday May 31, 2008, five UC San Diego teams – including two from the Jacobs School of Engineering – will compete for $50,000 in cash prizes in a completely-student-run business plan competition called the UCSD $50K Entrepreneurship Competition. Full Story
May 29, 2008
UC San Diego Unveils Cymer Center for Control Systems and Dynamics
Cymer Inc. has provided major sponsorship of a novel educational and research program at UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering designed to train engineers to improve the performance of wide variety of industrial products and processes. The new Cymer Center for Control Systems and Dynamics (CCSD), which will educate many of the finest students in the country in the field of controls, is designed to put UC San Diego’s Jacobs School on the fast track to industry partnerships in numerous high tech arenas. Full Story
May 20, 2008
Mad Dash for Trash, Then Junkyard Derby Bash
It's Junkyard Derby week at UC San Diego. The junkyard opens on Wednesday night, May 21 at 7:30 pm, and the races start on Friday at 11:30 AM. Full Story
April 29, 2008
Hypersaline Hyperviscous Fluids Better Treatment for Severe Blood Loss
UC San Diego bioengineering researchers report in the journal Resuscitation that treatment of severe blood loss, which for decades has included large volumes of isotonic fluids that thin the blood, may be improved significantly with smaller volumes of highly salty water and viscosity enhancers that thicken blood. Full Story
April 2, 2008
Joint Symposium: UC San Diego and National Yang Ming University
The Second Joint Symposium between the National Yang Ming University (NYMU) of Taiwan and UC San Diego will be held at UCSD on April 9-11 at UCSD’s Department of Bioengineering. Full Story
March 27, 2008
US News Ups Ranking of Jacobs School
UC San Diego again was one of only a handful of universities to have both an engineering school and a medical school both ranked in the top 15 by US News annual ranking of graduate programs at colleges and universities. Full Story
February 22, 2008
Hopping Robot Captures Top Research Expo Honor
The two-wheeled robot called “iHop” developed by Christopher M. Schmidt-Wetekam, a Ph.D. candidate in the Jacobs School’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, won top honors at the Jacobs School of Engineering’s annual Research Expo on Feb. 21. Full Story
February 12, 2008
National Engineers Week at UCSD
They say that everyday should be Mothers Day. Considering how crucial technology is for everything we do from communication and banking, to environmental sustainability and health care, everyday should also be Engineers Day. Nevertheless, Feb 18-22 is the one week out of the year that is carved out as National Engineers Week – and the students at UCSD’s Jacobs School of Engineering took part in a big way. Full Story
January 23, 2008
Kauffman Foundation Says von Liebig Center Fills Seed-Stage Funding Gap
A Kauffman Foundaiton study has highlighted two university "proof of concept" centers, the von Liebig Center at UCSD and the Deshpande Center at MIT, which since the two centers’ creation in 2002, have collectively awarded nearly $10 million in seed grants and launched 26 seed-stage companies that have accumulated more than $159 million in private capital. Both centers are funded from philanthropic donations. Full Story
December 5, 2007
A Unique Way To Lower Energy Costs
UC San Diego undergraduate students have designed, built and deployed a network of five weather-monitoring stations as a key step toward helping the university use ocean breezes to cool buildings, identify the sunniest rooftops to expand its solar-electric system, and use water more efficiently in irrigation and in other ways. Full Story
November 21, 2007
Flip-Flopping Gene Expression Can Be Advantageous
One gene for pea pod color generates green pods while a variant of that gene gives rise to the yellow-pod phenotype, a feature that helped Gregor Mendel first describe genetic inheritance. However, many modern-day geneticists are focused on the strange ability of some genes to be expressed spontaneously in either of two possible ways. UCSD researchers reported in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) that variability due to the phenomenon is larger and persists much longer than they had expected. Full Story