NanoEngineering News

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) announced Andrea Tao as one of the 2008 IUPAC Prizes for Young Chemists last April. The awards are given for the best Ph.D. theses in the chemical sciences as described in 1000-word essays. Andrea presented her work on "Nanocrystal Assembly for Bottom-Up Plasmonic Materials" at the IUPAC Congress, 2-7 August 2009, in Glasgow, Scotland. Read more?

San Diego, CA, July 16, 2009 -- The University of California, San Diego NanoTumor Center and NanoTecNexus (NTN) (formerly NanoBioNexus)Ña leading nanotech education organizationÑwon the 2009 Bronze Telly Award for the production of a video on approaches to fighting cancer using nanotechnology. Read more?

San Diego, CA, June 2, 2009 -- A team of bioengineering graduate students from the Jacobs School of Engineering won first place at the UC San Diego Entrepreneur Challenge for the business plan they built around their new early cancer diagnostic technology. The bioengineering students have already formed a startup company, Biological Dynamics, and they are currently seeking funding from investors. Read more?

to Many Prizes and a Startup Company. San Diego, CA, May 11, 2009 -- For breakthroughs aimed at early-stage cancer diagnostics, Raj Krishnan, a bioengineering Ph.D. student at the University of California, San Diego has taken home three first place awards at graduate research competitions this year. Not pausing to polish his awards, Krishnan has co-founded Biological Dynamics, a startup company aimed at transferring the new cancer diagnostic technology from the laboratory to the clinic. Read more?

Thirty-three assistant professors at the University of California, San Diego have been named recipients of the 2009-2010 Hellman Faculty Fellows Awards to support their research and creative activities including Dr. Jennifer Cha and Dr. Liangfang Zhang. Read more?

Dr. Liangfang Zhang, has been awarded the 2009 Victor K. LaMer Award from the American Chemical Society (ACS) to recognize his graduate research and promise as a future investigator. Read more?

The majority of deaths on the battlefield occur within half an hour after injury--often too quickly for a soldier to get to a medic, let alone a hospital. But a collaboration between researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and Clarkson University, in New York, aims to change all that with a chip that could detect injuries and treat them almost instantly. Read more?

A team of scientists from University of California, San Diego (USA) and Arizona State University (Tempe, USA) has now developed nanorods that swim extremely fast. Read more?

With a $1.6M grant from the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR), UC San Diego NanoEngineering professor Joseph Wang will lead a project to create a “field hospital on a chip” that soldiers can wear on the battlefield. Read more?

Joseph Wang, the most cited engineer from 1991 to 2001 and consistently one of the world’s most cited engineers and chemists, joined the faculty of the Department of NanoEngineering at UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering this summer. Read more?

Assistant professor Gaurav Arya was named a Hellman Fellow for the 2008-09 academic year. The purpose of the Hellman Faculty Fellows Awards, funded through the generosity of Chris and Warren Hellman, is to substantially support the research and creative activities of promising assistant professors who show capacity for great distinction in their research and other creative activities. The program was established at UC San Diego in 1995 through the generosity of Chris and Warren Hellman. In accordance with the wishes of the Hellmans, at least two-thirds of the funds available annually are to be awarded to faculty in the physical sciences, life sciences, and engineering. The recently named Hellman Fellow recipients will be honored at a luncheon with the benefactors in early September.

The UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering 27th Annual Research Expo was held Thursday, February 21, 2008. More than 240 students presented their research results in the poster session; 13 posters were submitted in the NanoEngineering category. Congratulations to Christian Peter Deck (Advisor: Kenneth Vecchio), winner of the NanoEngineering section, for “MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF MATS OF WELL-ALIGNED MULTI-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES”. Poster abstracts are available on the EXPO website.

Professor Ken Vecchio has been named Chair of the newly established Department of NanoEngineering at the Jacobs School. In this role as chair, Ken will lead the development of an innovative first-of-its-kind educational program that will develop in phases and serve 400 undergraduate and 120 graduate students when it reaches steady state. Read more?

A new department, the Jacobs School's sixth, will address fundamental chemical and physical issues that arise when engineers work at the nanoscale. Read More.

Seeking to capitalize on the potential of a new generation of multi-functional nanoscale devices and special materials built on the scale of individual molecules, UC San Diego has established a new Department of NanoEngineering within its Jacobs School of Engineering effective July 1. Read More.