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Coding with Colorful Cards: Kids Learn Arduino-based Code with Tinker the Robot
Tinker the RobotMeet Tinker the Robot. UC San Diego mechanical engineering alumnus Kay Yang created him to teach and inspire young children to play with robots.Tinker the Robot is designed to appeal to...
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Bitcoin experts and CSE alumna wins Chancellor's Dissertation Medal
Sarah Meiklejohn, an alumna who earned a Ph.D. in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Jacobs School, has won the 2015 Chancellor's Dissertation Medal. She is now an assistant...
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Student Teams Win Over $45K in Recent Competitions
This last month, students and teams from the Entrepreneurism and Leadership Programs competed in several citywide, statewide and nationwide business competitions, and collectively, two student teams...
View ArticleGiving human stem cells a massage to release calcium
Mesenchymal stem cells—adult stem cells that are constantly renewing our bone, cartilage, and muscle—can be stimulated by a gentle massage to release calcium. Bioengineers at UC San Diego published...
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Make-A-Thon 2015: Hack-A-Thon Takes on 3D Printing
Recently, I had the pleasure of stopping by UC San Diego’s first annual Make-A-Thon. I wasn’t entirely sure of what I should expect, but I was excited and knew I would be amazed. Upon entering the...
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UC San Diego Student Takes on Challenge: Making Graphene for the Market
UC San Diego NanoEngineering Ph.D. candidate Aliaksandr (Alex) ZaretskiA University of California, San Diego graduate student has found a way to use mass-produce graphene, an allotrope of carbon that...
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Moxie Center Awards $20K to Students at the 2015 Zahn Prize Competition
This year, the Moxie Center for Student Entrepreneurship was able to double the total amount of cash prizes for student teams at its annual Zahn Prize Competition. The 2015 Zahn Prize Competition was...
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Meet the Engineers of Tomorrow: Oscar Beijbom
UC San Diego computer science PhDcandidate Oscar BeijbomWhen asked, “Where do you see yourself in five years?”, UC San Diego computer science PhD candidate Oscar Beijbom said that he sees himself...
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UC San Diego Student Takes on Challenge: Making Graphene for the Market
UC San Diego NanoEngineering Ph.D. candidate Aliaksandr (Alex) ZaretskiA University of California, San Diego graduate student has found a way to use mass-produce graphene, an allotrope of carbon that...
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ECE graduate student presents as finalist at international research competition
UC San Diego Graduate Student Arman Fazeli and Broadcom Co-Founder, Chairman of the Board and Chief Technical Officer Henry Samueli.University of California, San Diego graduate student Arman Fazeli...
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A Conversation with Pierre Sleiman: Reimagining Farming through Sustainable...
UC San Diego held its annual Alumni Weekend last week and featured a talk at The Basement with Pierre Sleiman, graduate of Rady School of Business Class of 2013 and UC San Diego Alumni Honoree of 2015....
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Vinculin protein boosts function in the aging heart
Drosophila heart tube and associated structures.Credit: Anthony Cammarato, Johns Hopkins UniversityA team of researchers led by bioengineers at the University of California, San Diego provides new...
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The Gordon Engineering Leadership Center's Think Tank on Digital Health
This year, the Gordon Engineering Leadership Center held its annual Think Tank on the Future of Digital Health on Friday May 15th and Saturday May 16th. The goal of the Think Tank was to bring together...
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UC San Diego Researchers Launch Startup and Secure VC Investment
Congratulations to MANTA Instruments Inc. for recently securing seed funding investment from the Triton Technology Fund for their breakthrough technology to effectively characterize nanoparticles! Read...
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The Moxie Center Closes On a High Note
The Moxie Center for Student Entrepreneurship capped its 2 ½-year life by winning the “Excellence in Entrepreneur Mentorship” Award from San Diego Startup Week 2015. Created with a gift from the Moxie...
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Cocoon Cam, the first Wellness Video Baby Monitor
Congratulations to the von Liebig Entrepreneurism Center Cocoon Cam team for graduating the NSF I-Corps Program in Washington DC!(From left to right) Dr. Nadir Weibel (Mentor from UCSD CSE Department),...
View ArticleIEEE Chapter Continues to Grow
IEEE is one of the largest student organizations at UC San Diego. The national organization is the largest professional organization for electrical engineers nationwide. Despite having endless...
View ArticleJacobs School alum teaches how to program inside of Minecraft at Minecon 2015
About to teach in the #Glassroom#Minecon2015#Minecraft in #Education#TNTCanonpic.twitter.com/ULHp6GpYT3— Sarah Guthals (@sarahguthals) July 5, 2015Sarah Guthals, a postdoctoral researchers in the...
View ArticleSquishy robot that jumps is in the media spotlight
It's been compared to a frog, called "extremely cute" and "a bouncing bot." A robot designed by engineers at Harvard University and the University of California, San Diego, became a media darling this...
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Alumni from computer science research group wrote two For Dummies books
Bill Griswold during a talk.The research group of William Griswold now boasts two alumni who have written For Dummies books. We're ready to bet that's a pretty unique occurrence. The most recent tome,...
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