Jacobs School NanoEngineering News: Top Stories

Breakthrough Genome Sequencing Discovery

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Bioengineers at UC San Diego have made a breakthrough development that will now allow scientists to perform full delineation of the location and use of genomic elements.

Jacobs School Ranked 9th in the World

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PDT

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.

UC San Diego Engineer Provides Insights to Decades-Old DNA Squabble

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PDT

A group of nanoengineers, biologists and physicists have used innovative approaches to deduce the internal structure of chromatin, a key player in DNA regulation, to reconcile a longstanding controversy in this field.

NanoTumor Center Video Wins Telly Award for Edu Video

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PDT

The University of California, San Diego NanoTumor Center and NanoTecNexus (NTN) (formerly NanoBioNexus)—a leading nanotech education organization—won the 2009 Bronze Telly Award for the production of a video on approaches to fighting cancer using nanotechnology. The three minute video, entitled “Fighting Cancer with Nanotechnology,” is embedded below and can be viewed at NanoTecNexus, YouTube and around the Web.

Engineering Undergrads Do International Research

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Twenty four Jacobs School undergraduates are among the 33 University of California, San Diego undergraduates working as researchers in laboratories across the Pacific Rim and India this summer.

Grad Students Finalists in $250K Business Plan Comp

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 PDT

University of California, San Diego bioengineering graduate students led by Raj Krishnan are among just 16 finalist teams from across the globe who will compete on June 30, 2009 for $250,000 in a global business plan competition.

ENSPIRE Inspires Local 8th Graders

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Imagine 420 eighth graders arriving at your doorstep and expecting you to inspire, teach, entertain and feed them all day. This is exactly the challenge the undergraduates from UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering took on earlier this year at ENSPIRE, one of the many events that make up Engineers Week at UC San Diego.

Awards and a Start Up for BioEng Grad Student

Mon, 11 May 2009 00:00:00 PDT

For breakthroughs aimed at early-stage cancer diagnostics, Raj Krishnan, a bioengineering Ph.D. student at the University of California, San Diego has taken home three first place awards at graduate research competitions this year. Not pausing to polish his awards, Krishnan has co-founded Biological Dynamics, a startup company aimed at transferring the new cancer diagnostic technology from the laboratory to the clinic.

UC San Diego Engineers Develop Novel Method for Accelerated Bone Growth

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Engineers at the University of California at San Diego have come up with a way to help accelerate bone growth through the use of nanotubes and stem cells.

ECE 191 Final Presentations

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:00:00 PDT

ECE 191, Engineering Group Design Project, is an upper-division class that provides undergraduate students with hands-on experience working in a team to design, build, demonstrate and document an open-ended engineering project.