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Two Jacobs School Engineers Elected AIAA Associate Fellows
September 29, 2026

Two engineers at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering have been elected Associate Fellows o...

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Nanomedicine Pioneer Awarded MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’
September 29, 2026

UC San Diego chemical and nano engineering professor Liangfang Zhang has been named a 2026 MacArthur...

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By Shaping and Shrinking Light, Engineers Alter a Material’s Magnetic Properties
September 25, 2026

A new approach that uses specially engineered light to switch the magnetic states of a material coul...

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Four Jacobs School of Engineering Undergraduate Programs Rank Top 10 Nationally
September 24, 2026

Four undergraduate programs at the Jacobs School of Engineering ranked in the nation’s Top 10 ...

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New Imaging Platform Maps Cell Type and Metabolic Activity Simultaneously
September 22, 2026

Cells of the same type adopt different metabolic states depending on where exactly they sit in the t...

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UC San Diego Engineering Graduate Students Named Siebel Scholars
September 18, 2026

Three engineering graduate students at UC San Diego have been named 2027 Siebel Scholars. The&n...

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NSF Funds New Center to Design Reliable, Self-Correcting Quantum Computers
August 27, 2026

A multidisciplinary team of researchers including computer scientists at UC San Diego has been award...

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Zeinab Jahed Receives $1.9M NIH MIRA Grant to Study How Cells Sense and Repair Physical Damage
August 26, 2026

Chemical and nano engineering professor Zeinab Jahed has received a $1.9M National Institutes of Hea...

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Engineering a Future With Purpose
August 21, 2026

For Roxanne Ehrig, the classroom and the track may seem like two different worlds, but each has taug...

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This Thin Device Can Store Energy, Strengthen Structures and Be Recycled
August 20, 2026

Engineers developed a new type of supercapacitor that can do more than store electricity — it ...

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A Practical Tool for Selecting Reliable PCR Primers
August 20, 2026

Bioengineers at UC San Diego have developed an online tool that helps biomedical researchers solve a...

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Simulated Reality, Real Benefits
August 19, 2026

When first-year students at UC San Diego School of Medicine step into the Professional Developm...

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From Wearable Sensors to Printed Placentas
August 19, 2026

 Lindsey Burnett, MD, PHD, assistant professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and ...

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Sense and Treat
August 19, 2026

Toward lab tests and medical delivery, on the same microneedle patch. ...

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Study Identifies Previously Missed DNA Mutation Pattern in Colorectal Cancer
August 19, 2026

Researchers identified a previously overlooked pattern of DNA mutations in colorectal cancer. The pa...

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UCSD professor who pioneered medicinal Trojan horses awarded prestigious MacArthur 'genius grant'
The San Diego Union-Tribune | September 29, 2026

As a chemical engineer, UC San Diego professor Liangfang Zhang could have opted for career paths that had nothing to do with medicine or the greater h...

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Cheap wall tiles 'inspired by flowing streams' could fix one of superfast 6G's biggest problems
Live Science | August 24, 2026

Superfast 6G has a major problem-- signals struggle to pass through physical barriers. But scientists have invented a $2 wall tile that can fix that....

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Printable Tiles Double Wireless Speeds
Hackster.io | August 20, 2026

UCSD's passive 3D-printed tiles nearly double millimeter wave speeds and coverage by steering signals around obstacles without electronics....

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Two Jacobs School Engineers Elected AIAA Associate Fellows
September 29, 2026

Two engineers at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering have been elected Associate Fellows o...

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Nanomedicine Pioneer Awarded MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’
September 29, 2026

UC San Diego chemical and nano engineering professor Liangfang Zhang has been named a 2026 MacArthur...

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By Shaping and Shrinking Light, Engineers Alter a Material’s Magnetic Properties
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A new approach that uses specially engineered light to switch the magnetic states of a material coul...

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Four Jacobs School of Engineering Undergraduate Programs Rank Top 10 Nationally
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New Imaging Platform Maps Cell Type and Metabolic Activity Simultaneously
September 22, 2026

Cells of the same type adopt different metabolic states depending on where exactly they sit in the t...

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