News
November 20, 2008
Jessica Godin, Electrical Engineer, Wins R.B. Woolley Leadership Award
Jessica Godin came to UC San Diego in 2004 to pursue a Ph.D. in electrical engineering. Now on the home-stretch of her Ph.D. at the Jacobs School of Engineering, Godin has won the annual R.B. Woolley Graduate Leadership Award. Full Story
October 29, 2008
Genetic Clock Makers at UC San Diego Publish Their Timepiece in Nature
UC San Diego bioengineers have created the first stable, fast and programmable genetic clock that reliably keeps time by the blinking of fluorescent proteins inside E. coli cells. The clock’s blink rate changes when the temperature, energy source or other environmental conditions change, a fact that could lead to new kinds of sensors that convey information about the environment through the blinking rate. Full Story
October 22, 2008
NanoEngineer Wins Grant to Develop Field-Hospital-on-a-Chip Technology
With a $1.6M grant from the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR), UC San Diego NanoEngineering professor Joseph Wang will lead a project to create a field-hospital-on-a-chip technology that soldiers can wear on the battlefield. Full Story
October 13, 2008
NIH Awards $38 Million Grant Renewal to UC San Diego For Lipid Mapping Project
Shankar Subramaniam, professor and chair of the bioengineering department, is part of a $38M NIH renewal grant for “LIPID MAPS,” a national consortium studying the structure and function of lipids. Full Story
October 7, 2008
Bioengineers Fill Holes in Science of Cellular Self-Organization
Bioengineers and physicists at UC San Diego provide new insights into how cell populations order themselves biomechanically. Full Story
September 22, 2008
Generation Innovation: UC San Diego Researchers Win $3M in NIH New Innovator Awards
At 30, Karen Christman, an assistant bioengineering professor at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, plans to help fuel the growing field of tissue engineering. With a new $1.5 million New Innovator Award grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Christman will be able to do just that. Full Story
August 25, 2008
UC San Diego GreenLight Project to Improve Energy Efficiency of Computing
The information technology industry consumes as much energy and has roughly the same carbon “footprint” as the airline industry. Now scientists and engineers at the University of California, San Diego are building an instrument to test the energy efficiency of computing systems under real-world conditions—with the ultimate goal of getting computer designers and users in the scientific community to re-think the way they do their jobs. Full Story
August 13, 2008
Bioengineer Shyni Varghese Awarded $2.3M Grant for Stem Cell Research
Bioengineering Professor Shyni Varghese is one of five UC San Diego researchers and physicians awarded New Faculty grants from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). The new awards, announced today, add $11.5 million to the more than $20 million in funding that researchers at UC San Diego have received from CIRM. Full Story