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Evolutionary assimilation of foreign DNA in a new host
We know from decades of biological study that all living beings share many similar genes. We also know that these genes are subject to evolution, from mutations that change the DNA sequence of an...
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Summer 2020: a virtual NASA internship
The summer of 2020 was a far-out one for many people, but for Ferrill Rushton, a 2020 electrical engineering alumnus of the Jacobs School, it was really, really far-out; to deep space, to be exact....
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Digitizing the genome
by Cam Lamoureux, UC San Diego bioengineering PhD candidate The genome has historically been known as life’s instruction manual. Indeed, the genome sequence of any organism contains all of the...
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Home workspace tour: Ariane Nazemi
Electrical engineering undergraduate student Ariane Nazemi is a maker at heart. He enjoys designing, printing and painting miniature models; dabbles in printed circuit board modeling; and he even makes...
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Graduate students honored as mentors, leaders
Two Jacobs School of Engineering graduate students were honored with Community Awards from the UC San Diego Graduate Student Association for their contributions to graduate student life. The Community...
View ArticleMAE3 Robot Competition: Animal Crossing
The annual MAE3 robot competition— part of the mechanical and aerospace engineering Introduction to Engineering Graphics and Design course— was held on Zoom for the fall 2020 class. This quarter's...
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Triton Robosub: making progress in a pandemic
By Melissa HernandezThe Triton Robosub team makes progress on their underwater autonomous vehicle design via Zoom.Like so many student organizations in 2020, the Triton Robosub team at UC San Diego was...
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Undergraduate Bioinformatics Student Teams Up With CS Professor on Nature Paper
Bonnie Huang ’21 had the opportunity to work with computer science Professor Melissa Gymrek on a paper published Jan. 13 that find tandem repeats, which are also associated with Huntington’s disease,...
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FAQs about UC San Diego’s wearable mask sensor for COVID-19
Monitoring your potential exposure to COVID-19 could be as simple as wearing a sticker on your mask. Researchers at UC San Diego are developing test strips that can be stuck on N95, surgical or cloth...
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Q&A with computer science student Darya Verzhbinsky
Computer science student Darya Verzhbinsky and her research partner Daniel Wang were awarded first place at the Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages'Student Research Competition....
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Q&A with computer science student Daniel Wang
Computer science student Daniel Wang and research partner Darya Verzhbinsky were awarded first place at the Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages' Student Research Competition for their...
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Q&A with computer science student David Cao
Computer science student David Cao was awarded second place at the Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages'Student Research Competition for his research analysis tool. Cao shares how he got...
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Undergraduate research shines at Programming Languages symposium
Three UC San Diego computer science undergraduate students took home top honors at the Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages'Student Research Competition. Darya Verzhbinsky and Daniel Wang...
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New Chip Pushes the Power Efficiencies of Data-Converters
Data-converters bridge the physical analog world to the digital domain and are widespread in all electronic components around us—cell phones, cameras, displays, touch screens, wireless transceivers,...
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Undergraduates share the joy of engineering with elementary school class
By Melissa HernandezStudents learned how to create a “musical keyboard” with an Arduino microcontrollerElectrical engineering students at UC San Diego didn’t let the changing demands of a virtual fall...
View ArticleAn outdoor intro to autonomous vehicles
Students in the fall and winter quarters of the Introduction to Autonomous Vehicles class were able to get hands-on experience building small robotic cars and training them to navigate a course on...
View ArticleWinter Quarter 2021 senior design projects
Mechanical and aerospace engineering students who took the capstone Senior Design Course in Winter Quarter recently showcased the projects they worked in teams to develop over the course of the...
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Sloan Scholar Alemayehu Bogale: revolutionizing our understanding of plasma...
Alem Bogale, left, presents research from hisundergraduate studies at University of Chicago.Alemayehu Bogale is a first-generation Ethiopian-American who was born and raised in Chicago, and is now an...
View ArticleUC San Diego researchers developing COVID-19 vaccine technology—no...
UC San Diego nanoengineering professors Nicole Steinmetz and Jon Pokorski have been awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop an mRNA vaccine against COVID-19 that is stable...
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Sloan Scholar Isabel Albelo: using sunlight to create fuel
UC San Diego materials science PhD student Isabel Albelo has her sights set on a lofty goal: generating carbon neutral fuels through a reaction powered by the sun. It might sound like science fiction,...
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