MAE Undergrad Young Jin Kim Wins Library Research Award
Jacobs School undergrad Young Jin Kim won second prize in the Life Sciences / Physical Sciences category of the 2012 Undergraduate Library Research Prize here at UC San Diego. (Read the full story on...
View ArticleHistory of Bioengineering at UC San Diego / IEEE Pulse
Below is a link to an interesting article on the history of our bioengineering department, and some of the current, cutting-edge research happening in the bioengineering labs here at the UC San Diego...
View ArticleUC San Diego Mayoral Forum / Sat October 13
UC San Diego mayoral forum with Bob Filner & Carl Demaio.Whey? Sat, Oct 13th, 2:45 - 4:00 pmWhere? Price Center East Ballroom, UC San DiegoSubmit questions on SOVAC Facebook or SOVAC Twitter, for a...
View ArticleIEEE Spark
I stumbled on IEEE Spark this morning, which was linked from Nano.gov (the URL for the National Nanotechnology Inititative)IEEE Spark is an online publication intended to inspire students ages 14-18 to...
View ArticleOlympian and Jacobs School Alumna on Campus for UC Awareness Day
Jacobs School alumna and Olympian Christine Sonali Merrill was at UC San Diego today to sign autographs. Merrill, who earned a bacherlor's degree from the Jacobs School, represented her mother's native...
View ArticleEngineering Trade Publications
Here is a nice list of engineering trade publications on www.tradepub.com. I got this specific link from www.alltop.com on their engineering page.
View ArticleStudents Vie for Prizes-and Glory-at Programming Contest
Fifty UC San Diego computer science students took part in the Fall 2012 UCSD Programming Contest Saturday, Oct. 13. They were vying for cash prizes, including $1,000 for first-place. During a...
View ArticleFree Student Tickets / “What’s Past is Prologue: Creating the Life Sciences...
UC San Diego students who are interested in attending “What’s Past is Prologue: Creating the Life Sciences Industry in San Diego” just might get free tickets. Keep reading to find out more about the...
View ArticleCuriosity Engineer to Speak at UC San Diego
The engineer in charge of telecommunications during Curiosity's entry and descent into the Martian atmosphere is speaking from noon to 1 p.m. Nov. 2 at UC San Diego's new Structural and Materials...
View ArticleCuriosity Engineer Talks About "Seven Minutes of Terror"
NASA researchers called it the "seven minutes of terror:" the time difference between the moment when the Mars rover Curiosity would actually touch down on the red planet and the moment when the ground...
View ArticleStartup Weekend San Diego / Nov 16 - 18
Startup Weekend San Diego is coming up...it starts a week from tomorrow...Nov 16.Check out the video below, or learn more at http://sandiego.startupweekend.org/
View ArticleFree Event / Meet a Brackets lead contributor and the co-founder and CEO of...
Lunch and Learn: Building a Desktop-Quality App on Web TechnologiesBrackets is an MIT-licensed open-source code editor for web design and development. It’s built on top of open web standards...
View ArticleHave a Green Idea? Ready to Commercialize It?
If you are working on a project that will benefit the environment, and if you have have an idea of how to turn that idea into a commercially viable product, then next week's TriNet Mixer at UC San...
View ArticlePowering medical devices with your ears
Researchers have discovered a way to harvest the power generated by a biological battery located in the inner ear to power electronics for medical applications. Patrick Mercier, who joined the...
View ArticleEngineers Turn Poets at Founders' Day
What inspires you? Write it in a haiku! That was the challenge at the Jacobs School’s Founders’ Day booth. Below are samples of the creative writing work that took place over two hours Friday...
View ArticleBiomaterials Special Issue / journal Science
Science magazine, published by AAAS, put together what looks like an interesting special issue on Biomaterials. If you're don't have a way to get behind the Science paywall, you can still access the...
View ArticleThe Secret Lives of Paintings Revealed
Maurizio Seracini, an adjunct professor of structural engineering at the Jacobs School, and well-known "Da Vinci detective," spoke at TEDGlobal 2012 in Edinburgh this summer about "The Secret Lives of...
View ArticleCivil Engineering Magazine Puts New Engineering Building in the Spotlight
Civil Engineering magazine interviewed Jacobs School Dean Frieder Seible at length for a feature on the school's new Structural and Materials Engineering building in its November issue. The building is...
View ArticleTwo Jacobs School Computer Scientists Named to Inaugural AMS Fellows Class
Ron Graham and Fan Chung Graham, two professors in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Jacobs School, have been named to the inaugural class of Fellows of the American...
View Article