News
March 1, 2006
Getting Down to Business: Student-Run Career Fair is a Record-Breaking Success
By any measure, the 2006 Disciplines of Engineering Career Fair (DECaF) was a success for both recruiters and student job seekers. The student-organized event raised $36,000 in corporate sponsorship fees, making it the largest single fundraiser to benefit engineering student organizations. In all, 50 companies sent over 150 recruiters to DECaF, more than doubling last year’s participation of 20 companies. Those employers saw nearly 1,500 engineering students eager for internship or full-time employment opportunities. Full Story
March 1, 2006
Bridge-Monitoring Poster Wins Grand Prize at 2006 Research Expo
Apresentation on bridge-performance monitoring by Hong Guan, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Structural Engineering, was judged the best poster at Research Expo 2006. Full Story
February 23, 2006
New Scholarship Fund to Help Aspiring Engineers in Region
Jacobs School undergraduates of limited means have a new avenue to fund their education, thanks to a QUALCOMM Inc. commitment of $250,000 for a new scholarship fund to help students pursuing engineering degrees at UCSD, SDSU or Cal State San Marcos. Full Story
February 15, 2006
Study Suggests 'Noise' in Gene Expression Could Aid Bacterial Pathogenicity
An experiment designed to show how a usually innocuous bacterium regulates the expression of an unnecessary gene for green color has turned up a previously unrecognized phenomenon that could partially explain a feature of bacterial pathogenicity. Full Story
February 13, 2006
Streaming Video from Information Theory and Applications Workshop
Faculty from Bioengineering, CSE and ECE were among more than 400 experts from around the world who participated in a weeklong workshop to inaugurate Calit2's new Information Theory and Applications (ITA) Center. Streaming video of key presentations and tutorials is now available for on-demand viewing. Full Story
February 10, 2006
UCSD Bioengineering Professor Elected to National Academy of Engineering
Bernhard O. Palsson, a professor of bioengineering and adjunct professor of medicine at the University of California, San Diego, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Full Story
February 5, 2006
Decoding Da Vinci, UCSD Alumnus Shows Stunning Discoveries
To a packed audience at Calit2, UCSD bioengineering alumnus Maurizio Seracini unveiled drawings by Leonardo Da Vinci that went unseen for 500 years, until Seracini used high-tech imaging techniques to look below the surface of Da Vinci's Adoration of the Magi. Full Story
February 1, 2006
Leading Scientists Help Guide New Nationwide Networking Infrastructure
Two of the eight experts appointed to a new Science Research Council for optical networking have appointments in the Jacobs School: Calit2 director Larry Smarr in Computer Science and Engineering; and UCSD neuroscientist Mark Ellisman, adjunct professor of Bioengineering. Full Story
January 24, 2006
Patterns in Genome Organization May Partially Explain How Microbial Cells Work
The location of a piece of real estate may be its most important feature to many Realtors, and bioengineering researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and the University of Virginia have reported that the location of genes and other features distributed along the chromosomes of bacteria and simpler organisms also is fundamentally important to how microbial cells operate. Full Story
December 21, 2005
Researchers Quantify More Noise in Gene Expression
A team of researchers at UCSD led by bioengineering professor Jeff Hasty report in the Dec. 21 issue of Nature a mathematical description of “extrinsic noise" in gene expression in a technique that would apply to other types of cells and other species. Full Story