von Liebig News: Top Stories

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.

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.

Need New Look? Online Makeover is fan-taaz-tic

18 Mar 2008

Thanks to a Jacobs School startup company whose site, Taaz.com went live today, the cosmetics counter isn't the only place to try out the latest makeup trends. The new way is easier, faster, and much more private. Anyone with a digital photograph can now apply more than 4,000 makeup products with the click of a mouse. It's all at www.taaz.com - the creation of two Jacobs School computer scientists turned entrepreneurs. The site went live on March 18.

City and UC San Diego Cultivate Ceantech

18 Mar 2008

The regional momentum for supporting sustainability and clean/green technology received a boost from a new partnership of the City’s Cleantech Initiative and UC San Diego’s William J. von Liebig Center for Entrepreneurism and Technology Advancement. The City is collaborating with the nationally recognized Center to accelerate the commercialization of environmentally friendly technologies from academia to the private sector.

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.

Medical Device Pioneer Named to Endowed Chair at UCSD

12 Feb 2008

Juan C. Lasheras, a distinguished professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the Jacobs School, has been appointed the first holder of the Stanford S. and Beverly P. Penner Endowed Chair in Engineering and Applied Science.

At DEMO 2008, UCSD Web App Startup Opens Beta to Public

29 Jan 2008

At app2you.com -- a UCSD spinout company chosen by the DEMO 2008 conference as one of the biggest innovations coming out of the academic community -- you can whip up customized interactive Web applications that support business processes such as customer service request processing, sales tracking, internal operations, online catalogs, recruiting, ratings, fundraising drives and event planning.

Kauffman Foundation Says von Liebig Center Fills Seed-Stage Funding Gap

23 Jan 2008

A Kauffman Foundaiton study has highlighted two university "proof of concept" centers, the von Liebig Center at UCSD and the Deshpande Center at MIT, which since the two centers’ creation in 2002, have collectively awarded nearly $10 million in seed grants and launched 26 seed-stage companies that have accumulated more than $159 million in private capital. Both centers are funded from philanthropic donations.

A Unique Way To Lower Energy Costs

05 Dec 2007

UC San Diego undergraduate students have designed, built and deployed a network of five weather-monitoring stations as a key step toward helping the university use ocean breezes to cool buildings, identify the sunniest rooftops to expand its solar-electric system, and use water more efficiently in irrigation and in other ways.

Online Game Feeds Music Search Engine Project

26 Sep 2007

UC San Diego electrical engineers and computer scientists are working together on a computerized system that will make it easy for people who are not music experts (like the senior author’s mom) to find the kind of music they want to listen to – without knowing the names of artists or songs.