News
October 3, 2005
Thinking Big with the Very Small: Focus of New Cancer Nanotechnology Center at UCSD
In a new national effort to fight cancer with “nanoscale” devices that find and destroy tumor cells while leaving healthy tissue unharmed, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) today awarded the University of California, San Diego $3.9 million in the first year of a five-year $20 million initiative to establish a Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence (CCNE). Full Story
September 30, 2005
Noise and Delays Explain Why Some Genes Oscillate in Activity
UCSD scientists report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that the coupling of noise and time delay could also be an important factor in determining the variability in gene expression. Full Story
September 6, 2005
UCSD Bioengineering Professor Trey Ideker Named Top 35 Young Scientist by MIT's Technology Review Magazine
Trey Ideker, an assistant professor of bioengineering at UCSD’s Jacobs School of Engineering, has been named one of the nation’s top 35 innovators under age 35 by MIT’s Technology Review magazine. Full Story
August 16, 2005
UCSD Named 'Hottest for Science' by Newsweek Guide
August 16, 2005--The University of California, San Diego, long regarded as one of the nation’s premier research universities, has been named the “hottest” institution in the country for students to study science by Newsweek and the 2006 Kaplan/Newsweek College Guide. Full Story
August 9, 2005
COSMOS Experience Ends on a High Note for High School Students at UCSD
The 83 students participating in the California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science (COSMOS) program left the UCSD campus over the weekend, after showcasing their work for industry and family members at a Student Research Expo. In 2005 UCSD became the fourth UC campus after Irvine, Davis and Santa Cruz to host the COSMOS program. Full Story
August 8, 2005
Von Liebig Center Funds Five New Projects
The von Liebig Center awards more than $200,000 to five projects led by five professors at the Jacobs School of Engineering. Full Story
August 1, 2005
Researchers in Australia Perform Microsurgery in California over the Internet
Scientists from UC Irvine, UC San Diego and the University of Queensland have performed laser surgery and “optical trapping” via the Internet, producing surgical holes in a distinct pattern of less than one micron in diameter in single cells. Full Story
July 12, 2005
San Diego Startup Company To Commercialize UCSD Technology to Treat Shock and Inflammatory Diseases
UCSD has signed an agreement with a San Diego startup company to license technologies developed in the Jacobs School of Engineering that hold promise for the treatment of shock and acute inflammatory diseases Full Story
June 21, 2005
Starting Salaries Offered to UCSD Engineering Graduates Rise to $51,000-to-$55,000 Range
UCSD engineering students graduating this spring with baccalaureate degrees are receiving significantly higher starting salaries than their peers garnered last year. An annual survey by the Jacobs School of Engineering of its seniors found that the median starting salary this year for those joining the workforce will be in the $51,000-to-$55,000 range. Full Story
June 17, 2005
UCSD Undergraduates Selected to Research Cyberinfrastructure at Pacific Rim Universities
Thirteen students from the Jacobs School will leave next week for research institutions in Japan, Taiwan, China and Australia as part of the PRIME program to give the undergraduates summer-long research experiences in global cyber infrastructure-related fields. Full Story