von Liebig News: Top Stories

Students Connect, Collaborate and Career Search on New Interactive Portfolio Platform

Sun, 12 May 2013 00:00:00 PDT

Students at the UC San Diego are known for their innovative ideas that transcend classroom walls, but these achievements can lose their vigor when confined to a single bullet point on a traditional printed resume. In a digital world that prioritizes portability and values visual content, Jacobs School alumnus Adam Markowitz believes he has a solution to help students make a lasting impression: a new interactive portfolio platform called thePortfolium. Designed to dynamically showcase students’ multidisciplinary projects, the website allows users to network, upload their top work and search for jobs all in one place.

Nanosponges that Remove Toxins from Blood Take Top Prize at Research Expo 2013

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:00:00 PDT

More than 100 judges representing industry and engineering faculty circled around 200 engineering research posters at the University of California, San Diego April 18, asking the graduate students about their research. The students, representing the six academic departments of the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, explained the content of their research to the judges as well as Research Expo attendees from industry, academia, the government and nonprofits. Judges ranked the students on their research and on how well they articulated their work to judges who may or may not work in their particular engineering sub-field. Students were called to explain the essential findings and why they matter to other researchers, to industry and to society.

Want to Connect with the Future? Attend Research Expo at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 00:00:00 PDT

Advances in tattoo sensors for health monitoring, on-chip optical networking, low-cost cancer diagnostics, video games designed to teach computer programming, new materials for protecting soldiers from blasts, and energy-efficient high-wire robots. These are just a few of the 200+ projects from Jacobs School of Engineering graduate students that will be on display at Research Expo on April 18 at the University of California, San Diego.

Sujit Dey Named Faculty Director of the von Liebig Entrepreneurism Center

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:00:00 PDT

Sujit Dey has been named faculty director of the von Liebig Center for Entrepreneurism and Technology Advancement at the University of California, San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, which offers pre-seed funding and business advisory services to researchers and students developing innovative technology at universities throughout Southern California.

Feed Your Entrepreneurial Spirit with Know-How

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:00:00 PDT

Aspire to be an entrepreneurial scientist but lack the know-how? The von Liebig Entrepreneurism Center is excited to announce that it has partnered with the American Chemical Society to provide entrepreneurial training online from the perspective of accomplished entrepreneurs Neil Senturia and Barbara Bry. The 2013 ACS Chemical Entreprenurial Series of webinars, features subject matter experts exploring how to start and grow a science and technology focused company.

Alumnus Mike Chi is Developing Better EEG Recording Equipment at Cognionics

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:00:00 PDT

When Mike Chi finished his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at UC San Diego in 2011, he co-founded Cognionics. One of his big goals is to put better sensor technologies into the labs of researchers and physicians who study the electrical signals produced by the brain (EEG) and heart (ECG) for a variety of basic research and medical applications such as diagnosing cardiac disorders or conducting high-resolution brain imaging on freely moving subjects.

What is the Story Behind the Research Expo Gold Squares?

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:00:00 PDT

The gold squares on the Research Expo 2013 postcards…what are they? The gold squares are ceramic packages that house experimental circuits developed in the lab of bioengineering professor Gert Cauwenberghs at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering. The research is aimed at developing new circuits that increase the speed and decrease the energy required to wirelessly transfer biological data—such as ECG signals from the heart and EEG signals from the brain—from sensors worn on the body to nearby data collectors.

Sciences, Engineering Join Therapeutics in UC San Diego 'Express License' Program

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:00:00 PDT

With the launch of a second "Express License" program, founding a company with engineering or physical sciences technology invented at UC San Diego just got easier.

Jacobs School Freshman Wins TriNet Business Challenge

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 00:00:00 PDT

A student team led by Uzair Mohammed, a freshman at the University of California, San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, took the top prize at this year’s TriNet Challenge, a business competition aimed at fostering creativity and supporting new ideas in innovation and technology. Mohammed’s team, which included MBA student Loren Change from the Rady School, received $6,000 to further fund their project utilizing a highly cost-effective biofiltration technology for purification of drinking water, river cleaning, urban development and water infrastructure.

Blocking Digestive Enzymes May Reverse Shock, Stop Multiorgan Failure

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:00:00 PDT

New research from the University of California, San Diego published in the Jan. 23 issue of Science Translational Medicine moves researchers closer to understanding and developing treatments for shock, sepsis and multiorgan failure. Collectively, these maladies represent a major unmet medical need: they are the number one cause of mortality in intensive care units in the United States, with hundreds of thousands of deaths annually. There is currently no treatment for these conditions in spite of many clinical trials