UC San Diego |

Student entrepreneurs find success with smart earplugs

Engineering trio turn a class project into a budding company.
UC Santa Cruz |

Undergrads earn bronze medal in bioengineering competition

iGEM team worked to engineer a microbe to produce biofuel from cellulose.
UC Newsroom |

UC hosts tech summit

Tech summit draws UC and industry leaders to explore applications that build on the things that make college great.
Lawrence Berkeley Lab |

Boosting biogasoline production in microbes

Biology and genetic engineering join forces to fuel production of a type of alcohol in E. coli.
UC Newsroom |

UC to host technology summit

Summit will convene educators and industry experts around enhancing the student experience.
UC Santa Barbara |

UCSB's Shuji Nakamura wins Nobel Prize in physics

Nakamura, co-inventor of the blue LED — which made the white LED lamp possible — is UC's 61st Nobel laureate. Fiat Lux, indeed!
UC Santa Cruz |

Power of mountain lion's pounce

High-tech collars enable scientists to record the energetics of mountain lion hunting behavior, showing how they overpower large prey.
UC San Diego |

Capturing ancient Maya sites from both a rat’s and a ‘bat’s' eye view’

Drones and lasers help archaeologists study ruins hidden in Guatemalan jungle.
UC Santa Cruz |

Teaching computers the nuances of human conversation

Computer scientist wants to make spoken dialogue systems more responsive to the user.
UC Newsroom |

The sun rises as one of UC's top energy choices

Largest solar power purchase by a university moves UC closer to its goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2025.
UC San Francisco |

UCSF, Google Earth Engine make maps to predict malaria

UCSF is working to create an online platform that health workers around the world can use to predict where malaria is likely to be transmitted using data on Google Earth Engine.
UC Riverside |

The diaper detective

Team of engineering students develop an inexpensive, versatile pad to detect medical problems in infants.