Recent News

Wednesday, November 19th
Jessica Godin, Electrical Engineer, Wins R.B. Woolley Leadership Award

“Interning at NASA, I realized that I was going to need at least a master’s and more than likely a Ph.D. to do what I wanted to do,” said Jessica Godin, who 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.

“This award is a tribute to Jessica’s world-class research as well as the tremendous community building work she has done here at the Jacobs School,” said Jeanne Ferrante, Associate Dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering and a professor of computer science.
Monday, November 17th
Gordon Engineering Lunch Talk

You are cordially invited to attend a lunch talk about the Gordon Engineering Leadership Center by Professor Ingolf Krueger on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm in the Fung Auditorium (PFBH). Refreshments will be served. RSVP by Friday, November 21st to Astrid Falkenberg at afalkenberg@ucsd.edu.
Thursday, October 30th
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.

The researchers published their synthetic biology advance in the journal Nature.
Tuesday, October 14th
UC San Diego Proteomics Pioneers Establish First Center Dedicated to Computational Mass Spectrometry

UC San Diego engineers and scientists have received a five-year $4.94M grant from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to develop algorithms and software for deciphering all the proteins that are present in biological samples. This “proteomics” work promises to revolutionize routine blood tests, vaccine development, cancer diagnostics, and many other important biomedical challenges, says Pavel Pevzner, the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering computer science professor leading the project.
Monday, October 13th
San Diego Supercomputer Center Dedicates New Campus Building

With the press of a large ‘I/O’ button and strobe lights simulating a “powering up” sequence, officials of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and University of California, San Diego ushered in the next era of data-intensive computing by dedicating a new, energy-efficient building extension as a key resource for UC San Diego and beyond.