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NanoDay 2018
Nanome had demos of their VR tool at NanoDay. Nathan Tong, a fourth-year nanoengineering student at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, was tired of getting the same question over and over...
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What happens when two roboticists, one engineer and one holographic doctor...
Actor Robert Picardo, who played The Doctor in Star Trek Voyager. We found out Saturday, when when three of our professors were on the same panel at the holographic doctor from Star Trek Voyager, aka...
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Drones, medical devices and carbon nanotube fabrics: seniors show off their...
From medical devices to drones, a flying cell phone coverage platform and a detachable intubation device, senior mechanical, aerospace, and environmental engineering students exhibited their capstone...
View ArticleB.J. (Byungji) Kim: Materials Science and Engineering graduate student
B.J. (Byungji) Kim is the graduate student who was recognized, in the month of May, by the Jacobs Graduate Student Council at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering.B.J. Kim is a PhD candidate...
View ArticleUsing DFT calculations to design stronger airplane engine materials
Hui Zheng's research aims to make airplanes safer in the future. Zheng is a nanoengineering Ph.D. student in Professor Shyue Ping Ong's Materials Virtual Lab at UC San Diego. Using DFT calculations,...
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Adam Feist: Harnessing Evolution as a Tool
Adam Feist, a UC San Diego bioengineering alumnus (PhD) and current Project Scientist, has been awarded the Jay Bailey Young Investigator Award from the Society for Biological Engineering. The journal...
View ArticleClip from NanoXpo 2018: Rishi Kumar
How does water play a role in degrading a solar cell? Rishi Kumar is finding answers to that question through his research. His research in the lab of Professor David Fenning aims to understand how...
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Bioengineers reflect on USA Science and Engineering Festival
By Kritin KarkareUC San Diego bioengineering students at the USA Science and Engineering Festival in Washington, D.C.In early April, Washington, D.C. is flooded with science exhibitors, enthusiastic...
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2018 John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research
Richard A. Moyer, a Research Scientist at the UC San Diego Center for Energy Research, is one of three people who have been awarded the 2018 John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research...
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Bottling the Sun
by Andy ZhaoAs a Ph.D. student in Materials Science, I spend my days in lab similar to how Justin Timberlake spends his days in the studio—pondering the intricacies of solar thermal energy storage....
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Tissue engineering at UC San Diego: a summer to remember
This summer, there is a group of about 20 high school students who are immersed in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine at UC San Diego. The students are part of the state-wide COSMOS program,...
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COSMOS 2018: Week 1
Kritin Karkare, a UC San Diego bioengineering student, COSMOS TAand former COSMOS student.Welcome to the summer 2018 edition of COSMOS, the California State Summer School for Math and Science. I'm...
View ArticleClip from NanoXpo 2018: Yao Jiang
Yao Jiang, a grad student in Prof. Liangfang Zhang’s lab, is making nanoparticles that can “train the immune system to fight cancer.” These nanoparticles are coated in the membranes of cancer cells and...
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COSMOS Week 2: Tissue engineering, synthetic biology and science communication
By Kritin KarkareCOSMOS students use electrical circuits to model genetic mechanisms in biological systems. COSMOS, the California State Summer School for Math and Science, is a four-week summer...
View ArticleClip from NanoXpo 2018: Rory Runser
Rory Runser, a grad student in Prof. Darren Lipomi's lab, is developing a stretchable, flexible solar tarp. His approach involves coating flexible plastic substrates with electronic materials called...
View ArticleCOSMOS Week 3: the professors’ perspectives
COSMOS is a four-week summer science and engineering program focused on teaching motivated high school students topics rarely seen in high school curriculums. My name is Kritin Karkare and I’m a...
View ArticleCOSMOS Week 4: final projects
COSMOS is a four week summer science and engineering program focused on teaching motivated high school students topics rarely seen in high school curriculums. My name is Kritin Karkare and I’m a...
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Summer Engineering Institute final projects
More than 100 incoming freshman participated in the five-week residential Summer Engineering Instititue at the Jacobs School of Engineering this summer. The students took courses that count toward...
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10 Things to Know Before You Start Engineering at UC San Diego
Antonio Sanchez, a professor in the departmentof mechanical and aerospace engineering,researches chemically reacting flows.Antonio Sanchez, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at UC San...
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ThoughtSTEM, company founded by UC San Diego alumni, receives $330k grant...
ThoughtSTEM, LLC, a San Diego-based company teaching computer science skills to students ages 5 to 18, has received a $330,000 Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Science...
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