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11/3/09
Engineering Students Help San Diego Region Secure $154 Million in Solar Bonds
Engineering students at UC San Diego played a critical role in helping the university and the San Diego region secure a total of $154 million in federal bonds for solar installation projects.
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University of California, San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Ranked 9th in the World 11/3/09
University of California, San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Ranked 9th in the World
The University of California, San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering is the 9th best in the world for engineering/technology and 15th in the world for computer sciences, according to an academic ranking of the top 100 world universities published by the Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
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10/27/09
Electrical Engineers Go Head to Head with Genius on Music Playlists
Electrical engineers recently pitted Genius – the music recommendation system in Apple’s iTunes – against two experimental music recommender systems. Genius appears to capture acoustic similarities among songs within the same playlist, the researchers found.
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10/22/09
New in Class: Digital Signage to Make Campus Smarter, Safer, Greener
Researchers from the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) are installing a number of LED digital signs in classrooms throughout UC San Diego, with the eventual goal of outfitting the entire campus with the notification system.
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10/8/09
UCSD Researchers Pave the Way for Effective Liver Treatments
A combination of bioengineering and medical research at the University of California, San Diego has led to a new discovery that could pave the way for more effective treatments for liver disease.
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10/2/09
Jacobs School Undergrad is Green Intern in Washington D.C.
The nation’s first “green” intern in the U.S. Capitol--Mark Galvan--hails from the Jacobs School of Engineering at one of the country’s greenest universities, the University of California, San Diego.
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Students Explore Topics Outside Comfort Zone 9/30/09
Students Explore Topics Outside Comfort Zone
The Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center (TDLC) held its first “Boot Camp” from August 10-22 at UC San Diego.
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9/30/09
Jacobs Scholars Make their Mark in the Future of Engineering
Jennifer Fang learned her first programming language, Visual Basic, in the third grade. Since then she has honed her programming skills and is entering UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering this fall as a freshman computer science major, with an emphasis on bioinformatics.
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