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Jacobs School Research Helped Bring Gollum to the Silver Screen
Are you going to see The Desolation of Smaug? (Or have you seen it already?) Well, that eerie, blueish glow on Gollum's skin is courtesy of algorithms developed by Jacobs School Prof. Henrik Wann...
View ArticleOur Top 10 Most-Read Stories of the Year
The end of the year means web statistics report time. Here are our top 10 most-read stories between Jan. 1 and Dec. 20, 2013. Enjoy!UC San Diego Computer Scientists Develop First-person Player Video...
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MAE Alumnus, Douglas C. Hofmann, Earns Presidential Early Career Award for...
Douglas C. Hofmann, an alumnus from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering is developing bulk metallic glasses to be used as shielding...
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Nanosponge Vaccine Research Featured in Technology Review
Research on nanosponges for vaccines against MRSA toxins and beyond are featured in an MIT Technology Review story by Mike Orcutt. The research is from the Liangfang Zhang lab in the NanoEngineering...
View ArticleEarthquake Engineering with K'NEX Outreach Program
Over the past seven years, more than 7,000 sixth-graders from 26 schools in San Diego County built their own structures and got to test them on small shake tables at the Jacobs School of Engineering....
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Jacobs School engineers help create robot with perfect balance--and it dances...
A toy robot created by Jacobs School engineers and Hong Kong-based toymaker WowWee was all the talk at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week.MiP (short for mobile inverted pendulum) was...
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Rocket club helps Escondido students gear up for college
"Three, two, one!" Students from Mission Middle School in Escondido counted down as one of them pressed a button that ignited a rocket engine securely fastened to a table on Warren Mall. It was all...
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CSE Day 2014
Tech talks, a Q&A titled 'the secrets of recruitment' and of course, In-N-Out burgers, where the highlights of CSE Day Jan. 23 here at the Jacobs School. The event's goal was to show students the...
View ArticleDOE Apps for Energy Hackathon
Dear San Diego Tech Community!The Department of Energy is hosting a hackathon in support of its just-announced "Apps for Energy" contest, in which the Department is awarding $100,000 for the best...
View Article"Making sure we didn't step on each others code."
"Making sure we didn't step on each others code."That's one of the quotes from a video about Jacobs School of Engineering students who spent the summer interning at Cubic as part of the Team Internship...
View ArticleCommercialization of the Internet
Former chairman of Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) and Network Solutions (NSI), Michael Daniels will give a talk on the commercialization of the Internet in the 1990s, as well as offer a...
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Students Test Their Pitch
Over 40 students, mentors and advisors gathered Jan.29 at the Moxie/ Rady PitchMatch Mixer for networking opportunities and pitches of new ideas. The Moxie Center for Student Entrepreneurship was...
View ArticleJacobs School of Engineering "Pi Run"
The 3rd annual Jacobs School of Engineering Pi-Mile (3.14) Run/Walk is on...you guessed it...3/14.WHO: Anyone who is interested (even non-engineers!).WHAT: The Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San...
View ArticleTriton Entrepreneur Network / Talk by Dr. Robert Akins, Chief Technology...
The von Liebig Entrepreneurism Center, Moxie Center, and Gordon Center -- all part of the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering -- are pleased to announce the Triton Entrepreneur Network (TEN). TEN...
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Help UC San Diego team win the Cornell Cup
A team of UC San Diego students is a finalist in the Cornell Cup, a prestigious engineering competition, and now you can help support them! Each team writes a blog for the competition and the public...
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Free Video Game from Computer Science Undergrad Sean Nam
Computer science undergraduate Sangwoo (Sean) Nam has a new iPhone and iPad game out called Dragon Adventures: an Infinite Flying Game.The game is free, check it out and see Sean's hard work in action....
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Jacobs School alum joins Peace Corps, will serve as a science teacher in...
We want to congratulate alum Mario Zuniga, who was recently selected to work as a science teacher in Cameroon for the Peace Corps. While an undergraduate at the Jacobs School, where he majored in...
View ArticleFrom Bystander to Upstander: a social app to do good
Want to know more about opportunities to go good in your neighborhood? Want to get your friends involved? Soon, there will be an app for that, if a group of seven computer science and math majors at...
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Find Talented Engineers, New Ideas at Research Expo
Looking hire top engineers with advanced degrees? Want access to 200+ cutting-edge engineering and computer science research projects?Come back to campus for the Jacobs School Research Expo on April...
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BeneFunder.org Goes Live
From the "how it works page" on Benefunder.orgwhich is building a unique funding platform where individual donors can connect with the innovators of science. BeneFunder helps donors to engage in...
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