News Archive
2023 News Releases
December 19, 2023
2023 Jacobs School Highlights
It was another busy year at the Jacobs School of Engineering, as our students, faculty, staff, and industry and community partners worked together to pursue engineering and computer science for the public good. From research breakthroughs in robotics, AI and healthcare, to launching new centers for microelectronics and computing, here are just a few highlights from 2023. Full Story
December 12, 2023
UC San Diego Engineering Professors Elected Fellows of National Academy of Inventors
Eric Fullerton, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Prashant Mali, a professor in the Shu Chien-Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering, have been named 2023 Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors. Full Story
November 21, 2023
The science of sugar metabolism
Bioengineernig professor Lingyan Shi and her team are on the cutting edge of the science of sugar metabolism (and the science of fat metabolism). In particular, they were just awarded $1.97M in NIH grant funding to build an imaging platform to visualize sugar metabolic activities in aging and in disease. Full Story
November 20, 2023
UC San Diego Researchers Receive Close to $10M from California Stem Cell Research Agency
Two researchers at UC San Diego received close to $10 million in grants from the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine. Full Story
November 17, 2023
Jacobs School researchers named most highly cited in the world
Yet again, 16 faculty and researchers at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering were named among the world’s most influential in their fields in this year’s Clarivate listing of Most Highly Cited Researchers in the World. Full Story
November 13, 2023
This Wireless, Handheld, Non-invasive Device Detects Alzheimers and Parkinsons Biomarkers
A team led by UC San Diego engineers has developed a handheld, non-invasive device that can detect biomarkers for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Diseases. The biosensor can also transmit the results wirelessly to a laptop or smartphone. The team tested the device on in vitro samples from patients and showed that it is as accurate as the state of the art. Ultimately, researchers plan to test saliva and urine samples with the biosensor. The device could be modified to detect biomarkers for other conditions as well. Full Story
November 9, 2023
Women Produce Skin Temperature Data that are Just as Predictable as Men
Women produce physiological data that is just as predictable as men, at least when it comes to skin temperature. This might seem like common sense, but variations in body signals due to menstrual cycles, such as temperature, were used as an excuse to keep women out of clinical studies for decades. Full Story
November 7, 2023
UC San Diego Researchers Awarded $1 Million to Build First-of-its-Kind Microscope
The National Science Foundation has awarded $1 million to an interdisciplinary UC San Diego research team to build a first-of-its-kind, super-resolution microscope that will set the stage for advances in the biomedical sciences. Using materials custom-built at the university, the machine has the potential to achieve 10 times the resolution and more than 100 times the measurement speed of similar microscopes at current state-of-the-art levels. Full Story
October 11, 2023
UC San Diego and Mount Sinai Receive $8.5M NIH Award for Data Integration Hub
Researchers at the University of California San Diego and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have been awarded an $8.5 million grant to create a data integration hub aimed at accelerating novel therapeutics and cures for diseases within initiatives supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Common Fund. Full Story
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October 5, 2023
Bioengineering Undergraduate Awarded Public Service Scholarship
Daniel John, a bioengineering undergraduate student at UC San Diego, was one of 11 students from across the state awarded the $15,000 Strauss Scholarship for outstanding students developing social change or public service projects. Full Story
October 3, 2023
Innovative Researchers earn NIH New Innovator Awards
Two early career researchers at UC San Diego have been named recipients of the 2023 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Award. Brian Aguado, assistant professor in the Shu Chien- Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering, received an award to use biomaterials to understand sex differences in how scar tissue develops in the heart muscle after injury. Full Story
September 28, 2023
These screen-printed, flexible sensors allow earbuds to record brain activity and exercise levels
A pair of earbuds can be turned into a tool to record the electrical activity of the brain as well as levels of lactate in the body with the addition of two flexible sensors screen-printed onto a stamp-like flexible surface. Full Story
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September 26, 2023
Fifteen researchers join the Jacobs School faculty in fall 2023
Fifteen researchers are joining the faculty of the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering in fall 2023. They join the more than 160 faculty members the school has hired in the past 10 years–effectively more than doubling the size of the faculty from 2013 to 2023. Full Story
September 19, 2023
Students Integrating Engineering in Medicine Honored as Siebel Scholars
Five UC San Diego graduate students working at the intersection of engineering and medicine have been selected as 2024 Siebel Scholars. The Siebel Scholars program recognizes the most talented students in the world’s leading graduate schools of business, computer science, bioengineering and energy science. Full Story
September 19, 2023
Celebrating 25 years as the Jacobs School of Engineering
The University of California San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering is celebrating 25 years of being, well, the Jacobs School of Engineering. In 1998, a generous gift from Irwin and Joan Jacobs put the relatively new school of engineering at UC San Diego on a trajectory to become the perennial top-10 powerhouse of engineering and computer science education, research, and technology transfer that it is today. Full Story
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September 18, 2023
Bioengineering, computer science undergraduate programs earn top-10 rank
Several undergraduate academic programs at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering were ranked among the top in the country– including three in the top 10– in the U.S. News & World Report 2024 Best Colleges ranking, released Sept. 18, 2023. Full Story
August 29, 2023
Bioengineering undergraduates win NIH awards
Two teams of UC San Diego undergraduate bioengineering students were named Design by Biomedical Undergraduate Teams (DEBUT) challenge winners by the National Institutes of Health. Full Story
August 24, 2023
UC San Diego Engineering Undergrads Get Hands-On Lab Experience in the Summertime
The Guided Engineering Apprenticeship in Research program and sponsoring organizations are providing funding for hard-working engineering students to engage in further research this summer. The summer program, known as GEAR to Career, gives students extra time in the lab to deepen their skills. Full Story
August 24, 2023
Topography of the genome influences where cancer mutations thrive, study shows
Researchers have uncovered a connection between the topography of the human genome and the presence of mutations in human cancer. Certain regions of the genome, which exhibit unique features, act as hotspots for the accumulation of mutations. Full Story
August 14, 2023
A 6-step Roadmap to Diversify Faculty Hiring in Biomedical Engineering
Researchers from 16 top engineering programs in the nation, including bioengineers at UC San Diego, have established a roadmap for hiring diverse faculty members into biomedical engineering departments. Full Story