Jacobs School NanoEngineering News: Top Stories

Von Liebig Center Hosts First Annual Technology Showcase

25 Jul 2008

Technologies developed at UC San Diego landed in the spotlight on July 16, 2008 at an entrepreneurship technology showcase organized by UC San Diego’s von Liebig Center.

UC San Diego Launches Institute of Engineering in Medicine

21 Jul 2008

The world’s top engineers, physicians and scientists are joining forces to conceptualize, develop and bring to reality the future tools and treatments of 21^st century health care through UC San Diego’s new Institute of Engineering in Medicine.

Smart Bomb Nanoparticle Strategy Impacts Metastasis

10 Jul 2008

A new treatment strategy using molecular “smart bombs” to target metastasis with anti-cancer drugs leads to good results using significantly lower doses of toxic chemotherapy, with less collateral damage to surrounding tissue, according to a collaborative team of researchers at the University of California, San Diego.

Jacobs School Ring Ceremony 2008

20 Jun 2008

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

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.

Creating Faster Integrated Circuits by Slowing Light

22 Apr 2008

Two UCSD research groups have merged two previously unrelated areas of cutting-edge research in optics – slow light and Anderson localization – and have shown in a paper published in the journal Nature Photonics that structures being considered as prime building blocks for nanophotonic integrated circuits are very susceptible to the effects of disorder, including Anderson localization.

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.

Hopping Robot Captures Top Research Expo Honor

22 Feb 2008

The two-wheeled robot called “iHop” developed by Christopher M. Schmidt-Wetekam, a Ph.D. candidate in the Jacobs School’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, won top honors at the Jacobs School of Engineering’s annual Research Expo on Feb. 21.

National Engineers Week at UCSD

12 Feb 2008

They say that everyday should be Mothers Day. Considering how crucial technology is for everything we do from communication and banking, to environmental sustainability and health care, everyday should also be Engineers Day. Nevertheless, Feb 18-22 is the one week out of the year that is carved out as National Engineers Week – and the students at UCSD’s Jacobs School of Engineering took part in a big way.