Recent News

Wednesday, August 19th
UC San Diego Ranked 7th Best Public University by U.S. News & World Report

The University of California, San Diego ranked as the seventh best public university in the nation in the 2010 America’s Best Colleges guidebook issued today by U.S. News & World Report, and 35th among the 262 ranked national universities, both public and private.

The list of the “Top 50 Public National Universities” was led by UC Berkeley, first; UCLA and University of Virginia, tied at second; University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, fourth; University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, fifth; College of William and Mary, sixth, and UC San Diego and Georgia Institute of Technology, tied at seventh, ahead of the University of Illinois-Urbana and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Rankings of engineering schools that award doctorates included the UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering in 19th place, tied with UCLA and the University of Minnesota. The Jacobs School garnered a fourth place spot in the Biomedical/Bioengineering category., following Johns Hopkins University, Duke University and Georgia Institute of Technology, respectively, and ahead of Massachusetts Institute of Technology at fifth.
Thursday, August 6th
BioCircuits Institute (BCI) established as an Organized Research Unit at UC San Diego

Paul Drake, UC San Diego's Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs announced the establishment of the BioCircuits Institute (BCI) as an Organized Research Unit reporting to Vice Chancellor Art Ellis. Jeff Hasty, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, will serve as founding Director; and Alex Hoffmann, Associate Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, as founding Associate Director.

The Institute will study the dynamics and control of the biological networks that underlie homeostatic regulation and signal responsiveness of cells and organisms. Core Institute faculty will be drawn from a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines, including the biological and physical sciences and engineering. The Institute will focus on such areas as (1) biodynamics of gene regulation, cellular signaling, and immunity; (2) neurodynamics of cognitive and motor behavior; (3) mathematical and computational modeling in biology and bioengineering; and (4) biomimetic engineering solutions.
Wednesday, July 15th
UC San Diego NanoTumor Center and NanoTecNexus Win Telly Award for Educational Video

The University of California, San Diego NanoTumor Center and NanoTecNexus (NTN) (formerly NanoBioNexus)—a leading nanotech education organization—won the 2009 Bronze Telly Award for the production of a video on approaches to fighting cancer using nanotechnology.

The three minute video, entitled “Fighting Cancer with Nanotechnology,” can be viewed at NanoTecNexus, YouTube and around the Web.
Monday, July 6th
Industry Welcome: UCSD Bioengineering 601

Industry Welcome: UCSD Bioengineering 601
Friday, September 18, 2009 7:30am - 9:00am
Continental Breakfast provided

Please join us in kicking off the new academic year as we welcome our industry partners to take a "crash course" in UCSD Bioengineering. In this "introductory" welcome event industry representatives will be introduced to “core concepts” such as Bioengineering Internship and Senior Design Project programs, Industry Involvement, and Research Collaboration. Attendees will receive an orientation on student organizations by Bioengineering Undergraduate and Graduate Student Groups.

*Please note: No final exam will be administered at this welcome event.
To register please email bioengineering@ucsd.edu
Monday, July 6th
Jacobs School Undergrads Go International this Summer with PRIME

Twenty four Jacobs School undergraduates are among the 33 University of California, San Diego undergraduates working as researchers in laboratories across the Pacific Rim and India this summer.

The Pacific Rim Undergraduate Experiences (PRIME) program provides undergraduates with hands-on, full-time research experiences in internationally collaborative settings. Against the backdrop of living abroad in another culture, the students will work as full-time researchers in scientific institutions in Australia, China, India, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, or Taiwan. The students will collaborate with mentors at both their host institution and back at UC San Diego.