News Archive
June 22, 2007
One Student, One Professor - a Pivotal Moment
The recent announcement by the National Academy of Engineering that Yuan-Cheng "Bert" Fung would receive the $500,000 Russ Prize for 2007 was particularly poignant for Erin McGurk, who received a M.S. degree in bioengineering from UC San Diego in 1986. She recalled how Fung had helped her in her early days when she was struggling with a difficult class assignment. Full Story
June 15, 2007
The Jacobs School of Rock...Rocked!
The Jacobs School of Rock did, in fact, rock. More than 100 people gathered at Porter’s Pub on June 8 to hear five bands affiliated with the UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering. Full Story
June 5, 2007
Stem Cell Research Facilities Expanding at UCSD
A new stem cell grant will support the creation of a new 2,775 square-foot satellite core facility to be located at UCSD's Jacobs School of Engineering. Full Story
June 5, 2007
$75,000 Pay Out at Student-Run UCSD Business Plan Competition June 9
What started as a series of happy hours has morphed into a UC San Diego student-run event in which $75,000 in cash prizes is on the line. On Saturday June 9, five teams of student entrepreneurs affiliated with UC San Diego will compete head-to-head in a business plan competition run by the Triton Innovation Network (TIN), a new organization run entirely by UCSD graduate and undergraduate students. The winning team will walk away with as much as $45,000 in cash to support their new business, and the two runners up will receive up to $15,000 each. Full Story
June 1, 2007
Signaling Molecules Videotaped Delivering Messages in Cells
Scientists have captured on video the intracellular version of a postal delivery service. Reporting in the June 2007 issue of Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications (BBRC), bioengineering researchers at UCSD published time-lapse images of a message-carrying protein called paxillin moving abruptly from hubs of communication and transportation activity on the cell surface toward the nucleus. Full Story
June 1, 2007
Engineers Will Rock Porter's Pub at UCSD
At rock shows, the engineers are often backstage operating the sound equipment and running the computer systems; but at UCSD, the engineers are moving out front. Serge Belongie, a computer science and engineering (CSE) professor, has started a new concert series featuring bands affiliated with UCSD’s Jacobs School of Engineering. Full Story
March 28, 2007
Widely Used Iron Nanoparticles Exhibit Toxic Effects on Cells
Researchers at UC San Diego have discovered that iron-containing nanoparticles being tested in the treatment of several human diseases can be toxic to nerve cells and interfere with the formation of their signal-transmitting extensions. Full Story
March 20, 2007
Long-Distance Mentoring Over Email
Long-distance relationships are often tough. But when it comes to mentoring, the distance can turn out to be a good thing. Over email, a mentor who is hundreds or thousands of miles away can give advice and feedback based on a perspective that you might not get from an advisor down the hall. At no charge, UCSD engineering, mathematics or science undergrads, grad students, postdocs and new faculty can link up with a mentor over email thanks to a partnership between UCSD and MentorNet – an e-mentoring network promoting diversity in engineering and science. Full Story
March 2, 2007
Corporate Recruiters Vie for UCSD Engineering Graduates
An annual one-day, student-run recruiting fair at UC San Diego posted a 46 percent increase this year in the number of high technology companies and research institutes seeking engineering students and graduates for internships and full-time positions. Full Story
March 1, 2007
Engineering Week at UCSD
San Diego, February 20 - 23, 2007: From flying tomatoes, to undergraduate research, graduate poster competitions at Research Expo, a heavy-hitting job fair, and a semi-formal party just for students, the Jacobs School of Engineering celebrated National Engineering Week in a big way. Individual students and student organizations including the Triton Engineering Student Council were at the heart of it all -- from the games, to the research, to the work of recruiting companies to attend the job fair. Full Story
February 26, 2007
Single Photon Detector Wins UCSD Engineering Research Competition
With a flash of light, photons simultaneously fly toward the face of a person waiting to be identified for security purposes. The packets of light bounce off the face and land on a specially engineered photon sensor that clocks when each photon arrived and uses the information to reconstruct a three dimensional image of the face almost instantaneously. Full Story
February 20, 2007
Engineering Undergrads Cuddle Tomatoes in Search of Golden Calculator
Tomatoes falling from the sky. Duct-tape miracles. Paper-plate parachutes. Whipped cream in faces. A big blue balloon over Warren Mall. Is that a pair of sumo wrestler in the distance? Welcome to E-Games 2007, a day of engineering inspired competitions between a variety of UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering student organizations. E-Games, organized by the Triton Engineering Student Council, is the kick-off event for National Engineers Week at UCSD. Full Story
February 8, 2007
University of California, San Diego Engineering, Technology and Computer Sciences Ranked 9th in the World
The University of California, San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering is the 9th best in the world for engineering/technology and computer sciences, according to an academic ranking of the top 100 world universities published online this month by the Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Full Story
January 29, 2007
Simulating Human Metabolism
Bioengineering researchers at UCSD have painstakingly assembled a virtual human metabolic network that will give researchers a new way to hunt for better treatments for hundreds of human metabolic disorders, from diabetes to high levels of cholesterol in the blood. Full Story
January 22, 2007
Information Sessions for Calit2 UCSD Summer Undergraduate Research Scholarships
Calit2's Summer Undergraduate Research Scholars program is going on seven years, and expand in 2007 to include more students as well as higher stipends. The deadline to apply is March 5, and information sessions will be held this Thursday, January 25, and Feb. 14 in Atkinson Hall. Full Story
January 18, 2007
Successful Kickoff for New Joint Initiative on Medical Device Development
Fostering novel cross-disciplinary research collaborations, the UCSD division of Calit2 has become the home of the new Medical Device Affinity Group, a three-way initiative borne of Calit2, the UCSD School of Medicine's Department of Surgery and the Jacobs School of Engineering. Full Story
January 5, 2007
Y.C. Fung Wins Russ Prize
The National Academy of Engineering has announced that UCSD's Yuan-Cheng "Bert" Fung will receive the 2007 Russ Prize. Full Story
December 19, 2006
Building Better Phylogenetic Trees
Biologists will be able to reconstruct the process of evolution, determine relationships between species and build phylogenetic trees with greater accuracy thanks to a new method for identifying “microinversions,” which are extremely short strings of inverted nucleotides.This new work from researchers at UC San Diego and Brown University will be published online by PNAS the week of December 18, 2006. Full Story
December 6, 2006
Fibers Used in Bullet-Proof Vests Quadruple Toughness of Dental Composites
In a paper in Dental Materials, UCSD structural engineering professor Vistasp Karbhari and Howard Strassler, a professor and director of Operative Dentistry at the University of Maryland Dental School, report results of detailed engineering tests on dental composites containing polyethylene fibers, which are also used in bullet-proof vests. Full Story