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UC San Diego Awarded NSF Grant to Launch Semiconductor Workforce Development Pilot
September 9, 2025
Engineers at UC San Diego have been awarded a $300,000 grant from the NSF to launch a pilo...
Can a healthy gut microbiome help prevent childhood stunting?
September 9, 2025
Can a healthy gut microbiome help prevent childhood stunting? A massive collaboration between Salk, ...
Non-hormonal Biomaterial Could Help Combat Vaginal Changes Associated with Menopause
September 8, 2025
A new hydrogel applied directly to vaginal tissues may help alleviate the negative impacts of menopa...
Interdisciplinary Teams Win Three Data Storage Awards from Western Digital
September 5, 2025
Researchers from UC San Diego received three Western Digital Petabyte Innovation Quest (Peak) awards...
UC San Diego Engineers Lead $5M DOE Center to Design Impact-Resistant Metamaterials
September 5, 2025
Researchers at UC San Diego were selected for a $5 million award from the U.S. Department of En...
Computer Vision Expert Wins Prestigious Frontiers of Science Award
August 27, 2025
Hao Su, a faculty member in the UC San Diego Department of Computer Science, received a prestigious ...
UC San Diego Computer Scientists Win Best Paper Award at SIGGRAPH 2025
August 27, 2025
Computer science faculty member Tzu-Mao Li and his research team won a best paper award at SIGGRAPH ...
Gift Expands UC San Diego Efforts to Teach Engineering Problem Solving at Scale
August 27, 2025
More than 5,300 high school students in the San Diego region have already benefitted from an innovat...
The Jacobs School Represents at San Diego Comic-Con
August 25, 2025
From discussing the best invention to examining the way AI has been represented in movies, Jacobs Sc...
Researchers Identify Weak Points in Diamond Fusion Fuel Capsules
August 20, 2025
Scientists have uncovered how diamond — the material used to encase fuel for fusion exper...
How Can Visual Artists Protect Their Work from AI Crawlers? It’s Complicated
August 5, 2025
Visual artists want to protect their work from non-consensual use by generative AI tools such as Cha...
Simple Algorithm Paired with Standard Imaging Tool Could Predict Failure in Lithium Metal Batteries
August 4, 2025
A simple yet powerful method to characterize how lithium deposits in lithium metal batteries could l...
New AI Tool Learns to Read Medical Images With Far Less Data
August 1, 2025
A new AI tool could make it much easier—and cheaper—for doctors and researchers to train...
General Atomics-sponsored senior project advances fusion target autoloader systems
July 30, 2025
A team of undergraduate mechanical engineering students at UC San Diego developed a prototype of a f...
Engineers Take a Closer Look at How a Plant Virus Primes the Immune System to Fight Cancer
July 25, 2025
A virus that typically infects black-eyed peas is showing great promise as a low-cost, potent cancer...
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UC San Diego Awarded NSF Grant to Launch Semiconductor Workforce Development Pilot
September 9, 2025
Engineers at UC San Diego have been awarded a $300,000 grant from the NSF to launch a pilo...
Can a healthy gut microbiome help prevent childhood stunting?
September 9, 2025
Can a healthy gut microbiome help prevent childhood stunting? A massive collaboration between Salk, ...
Non-hormonal Biomaterial Could Help Combat Vaginal Changes Associated with Menopause
September 8, 2025
A new hydrogel applied directly to vaginal tissues may help alleviate the negative impacts of menopa...
Interdisciplinary Teams Win Three Data Storage Awards from Western Digital
September 5, 2025
Researchers from UC San Diego received three Western Digital Petabyte Innovation Quest (Peak) awards...
UC San Diego Engineers Lead $5M DOE Center to Design Impact-Resistant Metamaterials
September 5, 2025
Researchers at UC San Diego were selected for a $5 million award from the U.S. Department of En...