Jacobs School Bioengineering News: Top Stories

Undergrads Forge New Area of Bioinformatics

02 Jul 2008

Undergraduate students from the University of California San Diego have forged a new area of bioinformatics that may improve genomic and proteomic annotations and unlock a collection of stubborn biological mysteries. Their work will be published in the July 2008 issue of the journal Genome Research.

Finding a Single Mechanism for Hypertension, Insulin Resistance, and Immune Suppression

30 Jun 2008

Many of the 75 million Americans with essential hypertension also develop diabetes and other complications in addition to their high blood pressure, and researchers have discovered a common molecular mechanism in a strain of rat that explains why such metabolic disorders arise together in mammals.

Jacobs School Ring Ceremony 2008

19 Jun 2008

More than 350 graduating seniors from the Jacobs School participated in the annual Ring Ceremony on Saturday, June 14.

Jacobs School Students Take First and Second in Business Plan Competition

04 Jun 2008

Jacobs School students took first and second place in a prestigious business plan competition organized at the University of Southern California.

UC San Diego Entrepreneurship, May Madness and the Final Five

30 May 2008

On Saturday May 31, 2008, five UC San Diego teams – including two from the Jacobs School of Engineering – will compete for $50,000 in cash prizes in a completely-student-run business plan competition called the UCSD $50K Entrepreneurship Competition.

UC San Diego Unveils Cymer Center for Control Systems and Dynamics

29 May 2008

Cymer Inc. has provided major sponsorship of a novel educational and research program at UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering designed to train engineers to improve the performance of wide variety of industrial products and processes. The new Cymer Center for Control Systems and Dynamics (CCSD), which will educate many of the finest students in the country in the field of controls, is designed to put UC San Diego’s Jacobs School on the fast track to industry partnerships in numerous high tech arenas.

Junkyard Derby

20 May 2008

It's Junkyard Derby week at UC San Diego. The junkyard opens on Wednesday night, May 21 at 7:30 pm, and the races start on Friday at 11:30 AM.

Hypersaline Hyperviscous Fluids Better Treatment for Severe Blood Loss

29 Apr 2008

UC San Diego bioengineering researchers report in the journal Resuscitation that treatment of severe blood loss, which for decades has included large volumes of isotonic fluids that thin the blood, may be improved significantly with smaller volumes of highly salty water and viscosity enhancers that thicken blood.

Joint Symposium: UC San Diego and National Yang Ming University

02 Apr 2008

The Second Joint Symposium between the National Yang Ming University (NYMU) of Taiwan and UC San Diego will be held at UCSD on April 9-11 at UCSD’s Department of Bioengineering.

US News Ups Ranking of Jacobs School

27 Mar 2008

UC San Diego again was one of only a handful of universities to have both an engineering school and a medical school both ranked in the top 15 by US News annual ranking of graduate programs at colleges and universities.