News
April 5, 2006
Two UCSD Engineers Awarded $1 Million Teaching Grants from Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Two Jacobs School professors -- bioengineer Robert Sah and computer scientist Pavel Pevzner -- will receive $1 million each over four years to develop innovative educational programs to "ignite the scientific spark in a new generation of students." Full Story
March 22, 2006
Two Jacobs School Professors Selected for Chancellor's Associates Faculty Excellence Awards
Bioengineering professor Bernhard Palsson and Computer Science and Engineering professor Geoffrey Voelker have been honored by UCSD with two of the five Chancellor's Associates Faculty Excellence Awards for 2006. Full Story
March 20, 2006
Two UCSD Bioengineering Professors Recognized as Pioneers in Emerging Field of Comparative Interactomics
Technology Review, MIT’s magazine of technology, has highlighted two bioengineering professors at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Jacobs School of Engineering, as pioneers of one of 10 “emerging technologies” that the magazine predicts will soon transform computing, medicine, telecommunications, and business. Full Story
March 15, 2006
UCSD Computer Scientist Works with Cancer Researchers to Understand How Cancer Genomes Evolve
CSE bioinformatics postdoc Ben Raphael and professor Pavel Pezner co-author Genome Research article with UCSF cancer researchers on rearrangements of a breast cancer tumor genome. Full Story
March 8, 2006
Summer Science Program for High School Students Expands Enrollment
The COSMOS program administered by the Jacobs School will bring nearly 50 percent more talented high school students to the UCSD campus for a month this summer, with a March 16 deadline for applications. Full Story
March 1, 2006
Getting Down to Business: Student-Run Career Fair is a Record-Breaking Success
By any measure, the 2006 Disciplines of Engineering Career Fair (DECaF) was a success for both recruiters and student job seekers. The student-organized event raised $36,000 in corporate sponsorship fees, making it the largest single fundraiser to benefit engineering student organizations. In all, 50 companies sent over 150 recruiters to DECaF, more than doubling last year’s participation of 20 companies. Those employers saw nearly 1,500 engineering students eager for internship or full-time employment opportunities. Full Story
March 1, 2006
Bridge-Monitoring Poster Wins Grand Prize at 2006 Research Expo
Apresentation on bridge-performance monitoring by Hong Guan, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Structural Engineering, was judged the best poster at Research Expo 2006. Full Story
February 23, 2006
New Scholarship Fund to Help Aspiring Engineers in Region
Jacobs School undergraduates of limited means have a new avenue to fund their education, thanks to a QUALCOMM Inc. commitment of $250,000 for a new scholarship fund to help students pursuing engineering degrees at UCSD, SDSU or Cal State San Marcos. Full Story
February 15, 2006
Study Suggests 'Noise' in Gene Expression Could Aid Bacterial Pathogenicity
An experiment designed to show how a usually innocuous bacterium regulates the expression of an unnecessary gene for green color has turned up a previously unrecognized phenomenon that could partially explain a feature of bacterial pathogenicity. Full Story